Penelope Hegseth wrote that Donald Trump's selection for secretary of defense "belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego"

Pete Hegseth’s mother trashed his character in a blistering email amid his contentious divorce and from his second wife, Samantha, mother of three of his children. Penelope Hegseth, 70, wrote that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary had been mistreating women for years.

Fox News personality Pete Hegseth has a new problem complicating his goal of being confirmed to lead the United States military next year: His own mother. The New York Times recently reported on new details that emerged from the aftermath of Hegseth's divorce from his former wife,