On Wednesday, Pete Hegseth’s mother Penelope stepped out from private life into the spotlight for a sit-down on Fox & Friends to lay waste to the “almost criminal” liberal media and specifically “discredit” The New York Times for leaking a 2018 e-mail she had written to her son amid his second divorce but quickly regretted.
Speaking to co-host Steve Doocy, Mrs. Hegseth started by stating she’d “do anything for my son” and implored “the senators on the Hill especially our female senators” to listen to “the truth” and “not listen to the media.”
Hegseth said, on the e-mail itself, she said the Pete she was dealing with seven years ago was a far different man than the one he is now.
“[I]f all went back seven years we would — we would see that maybe we were not the people we are today but they were going through, Pete and…
