Liz Warren poses over 100 questions for Pete Hegseth ahead of the hearing

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, laying out a series of accusations and about 100 questions she expects him to answer at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, wrote the 33-page letter last week to Hegseth. He describes why he believes he is “unfit” to serve, referring to him at one point in the letter as “an internal threat” because of a tattoo Hegseth has that Warren claims is linked to “extremism on the right”.

“Your confirmation as Secretary of Defense would be detrimental to our national security and disrespectful to a wide variety of service members willing to sacrifice for our country,” Warren writes in the letter. “I am deeply concerned about the many ways in which your behavior and rhetoric indicate that you are unfit to lead the Department of Defense”.

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The letter begins with allegations against Hegseth that include allegations of financial mismanagement during his work at two nonprofits and allegations of alcohol use and sexual assault.

The Massachusetts Democrat accused Hegseth of “gross mismanagement” in obtaining debt and using business funds at the nonprofits he ran for personal expenses. He quoted former colleagues of Hegseth who claimed to be aware of what happened. Warren also claimed in her letter that some of Hegseth’s former colleagues had shared that he might have a drinking problem, citing “at least 11 separate incidents in which (Hegseth) has been described as drinking excessively or inappropriately in public.” Warren asks in the letter if Hegseth would resign if caught drinking again.

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Warren also followed Hegseth’s policy positions to the letter, several of which were made during media appearances and in books.

Warren criticized Hegseth for past comments about women in the military, including remarks he made that only men should have combat roles. Warren also asked Hegseth about other aspects of women in the military, including whether she thinks single women in the military should have access to birth control.

Hegseth, an advocate for eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the military, was criticized by Warren in her letter for calling for the firing of “any general, admiral, whatever, who was involved in any of the IEDs”. wake s–t,” during a podcast interview in November.

Warren added that in addition to potentially firing Defense Department officials who promote DEI, she also detailed fears about Hegseth’s willingness to help Trump go after his political opponents. In one of Warren’s questions, he asked Hegseth to share his thoughts on the 2020 election and whether he thinks Trump won or lost fairly.

At one point in the letter, Warren noted that Hegseth had been ousted from President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration due to concerns that he was “an insider threat” after reports that his tattoo of the words “Gods I want” was supposedly a “Christian expression”. associated with the extreme right”.

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Other sections seek to mention Hegseth’s alleged unwillingness to work with allies, including those within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which Warren suggested Hegseth will not adequately support given his “skepticism” about helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Warren devoted a whole line of questions to whether Hegseth will “undercut” veterans’ benefits and questioned what Hegseth might do at the Defense Department’s Education Activity, the part of the agency that educates troops’ children .

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Trump’s transition Spokesman Bran Hughes said Hegseth “looks forward to answering senators’ questions and detailing his many qualifications at his hearing tomorrow.”

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“Senator Warren’s letter to Pete Hegseth is exactly what American voters rejected on November 5,” Hughes said. “Instead of focusing on the ‘woke’ policies that have weakened our national defense, voters gave a mandate to rebuild our military, and that’s exactly what a reform-minded Secretary of Defense like Pete will do Hegseth. Senator Warren’s letter demonstrates why ideologically driven college professors have no place pushing their social agenda at the Department of Defense.”

Efforts to reach Warren for comment for the purposes of this story were unsuccessful.