Holly K. Talley, a former colleague of Pete Hegseth at Concerned Veterans for America, refutes claims made by Democrats during his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense, stating that Hegseth was not involved in any inappropriate incidents.
A former colleague of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth has slammed Democrats for perpetuating falsehoods spread by mainstream media and for their hypocrisy regarding support for women. Holly K. Talley , who worked for Hegseth as the Louisiana director at Concerned Veterans for America from 2013 to 2015, has publicly refuted an anonymous claim that Hegseth took staff to a strip club while in her state, but Democrats have disregarded her account and continue to repeat the lie.
In an interview with Breitbart News on Wednesday, Talley stated that Hegseth was not even in the state at the time of the alleged incident, a fact she has reiterated multiple times. Despite her refutation, reports and Democrats have chosen to ignore her, with Washington Post reporter Michael Krainish failing to include her denial in his article. Krainish only cited Talley as saying Hegseth “was a respectful person. I never saw him cross any boundaries personally. … He was a great leader.” This lie has persisted, being repeated recently by Democrats during Hegseth’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday in an attempt to tarnish his reputation. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) falsely claimed at the hearing: “Another colleague, not anonymous, we have this, said you took co-workers to a strip club, you were drunk, you tried to dance with strippers, you had to be held off the stage.” He further stated, “One of your employees in that event filed a sexual harassment charge as a result of it. Isn’t that the kind of behavior, if true, would be disqualifying to be secretary of Defense?” Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) followed up by asking Hegseth, “In 2014, while in Louisiana on official business for CVA, did you take your staff, including young female staff members, to a strip club? Kelly then pressed, “So is it accurate that the organization reached a financial settlement with a female staffer who claimed to be at a strip club with you and there was a colleague who attempted to sexually assault her? Was there a financial settlement?” Hegseth responded, “Senator, I was not involved in that. I don’t know the nature of how that played out.” Meanwhile, nearly all female Democrat senators at the hearing criticized Hegseth’s stance that standards should not be lowered for women seeking to serve in ground combat, accusing him of disrespecting women. Talley called out these accusations as hypocritical, particularly given their consistent disregard for her and other female colleagues of Hegseth. “It makes it makes you feel unseen and unheard, that your experience and your circumstance doesn’t matter,” she expressed. Talley found it frustrating to witness the lies being repeated, especially as a young female employee at CVA, Hegseth treated her with nothing but respect. “Pete never made me feel unheard or unseen. He always listened genuinely and valued my opinion and insight,” she recalled. “And if I felt in any way that Pete was not the leader or the boss or the friend, or however you want to put it, when I was at CVA, I would not have come out on record to say, this isn’t what I knew. This isn’t my experience.” She expressed pride in how her former boss handled the contentious hearing despite the falsehoods hurled at him. “In the face of those attacks, I think he remained level-headed, cool, calm, and collected, as cliche as that sounds,” she stated. “You want someone who’s going to answer with the facts, remain calm, and go forward and not get caught up in the emotion of it, I think a lot of the senators were caught up in the emotion,” she added.
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