In the run-up to his Senate hearing, supporters of Donald Trump’s nominee, who has been accused of sexual misconduct and excessive drinking, have targeted his accusers and the potential dissenting voters Joni Ernst and Susan Collins. Jane Mayer reports.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which will be holding Hegseth’s hearing, told me, “I’m deeply concerned by an apparent pattern of intimidation and threats, whether it’s legal action or reputational harm. They’re playing the hardest of hardball. It’s harder by several orders of magnitude than in almost any other confirmation.
Instead, sources say that the Bureau settled for an interview with a public-relations official at Fox. The lack of rigor in the Hegseth investigation is reminiscent of the F.B.I.’s investigation into Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation hearing, in 2018. Three years after Kavanaugh’s confirmation, the F.B.I.
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