Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s mother called him ‘an abuser of women’

Email from mother, published in the New York Times, said he mistreated women and displayed a lack of character

The family dynamics of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, have burst out into the open after an email from his mother criticizing her son over his treatment of women and calling him an abuser of women" was leaked to a newspaper.

A 2018 email from Penelope Hegseth accused her son of routinely mistreating women and displaying a lack of character.