After NBC News reported that anonymous colleagues of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s choice for Secretary of Defense, was drunk while on air, professional colleagues of Hegseth ripped NBC and fiercely defended Hegseth.
NBC News reported:
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News. Two of those people said that on more than a dozen occasions during Hegseth’s time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. Those same two people, plus another, said that during his time there he appeared on television after they’d heard him talk about being hungover as he was getting ready or on set.
Unlike the anonymous colleagues cited in the report,…
