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The female brains behind Pete Hegseth, Trump’s warmongering clown-in-chief
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In Short: Jennifer Hegseth, who was married with three children and worked at Fox, was involved in Hegseth's sensitive official duties, including sharing details of an impending military operation with top British defence officials, according to The i Paper.

Jennifer Hegseth, who was married with three children and worked at Fox, was involved in Hegseth's sensitive official duties, including sharing details of an impending military operation with top British defence officials, according to The i Paper.
Jennifer Hegseth's influence is now coming to light, with The i Paper describing her as the 'swamp creature' eclipsing JD Vance in the race to succeed Trump, and noting that her job at Fox was to serve up red meat to the network's grievance-hungry base.
What's still developing
- Upon becoming the “Secretary of War”, he shares operational details with a group chat accidentally containing a leading journalist, and watches on as his own secretary of the army quit while reportedly privately warning that Hegseth is inflicting “generational damage”.
- Rauchet was married with three children, and Hegseth was married with three children too, when they started their workplace affair.
- When Hegseth sat down with top British defence officials to discuss a concerning pause in US intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, Jennifer was there too (though the Pentagon said she only stayed for introductions).
- “It’s bonkers that a defence secretary would involve his wife in his sensitive official duties, including sharing details of an impending military operation, and face zero consequences,” said Hegseth’s former spokesman John Ullyot to The New York Times.
- Katherine Stewart: Jennifer Hegseth's extraordinary influence is now coming to light Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American politics as the US reshapes itself and the world..
- The Democrat who has finally worked out how to beat Trump If the Pete Hegseth story were written up as fiction, readers would likely dismiss it as too farcical to be believed.
Sources
- The i Paperlink
