The Senate confirmed that Trump's highly controversial Pentagon chose Pete Hegseth Trump administration

Former Fox News, right -wing commentators Pete Hegseth had been recognized as the Senate Minister of Defense. He once said that women should not be a fighting role, suggesting that the army was cleaned and faced with allegations of sexual assault and alcoholism. Vice President JD Vance rejected the vote.

Almost the entire Republican meeting supported Hergsisia's nomination, and all Democrats in the Senate voted to oppose his confirmation, the result was the result of 50 to 50 voting. The three Republican senators -Mickey McConal in Kentucky, Susan Collins in Minsan, and Lisa Mercoski in Alaska -opposed Hergses' nomination. Collins and Mulcoski said earlier that concerns about his personal history and lack of experience are the reasons for disqualification.

Due to the allegations of sexual assault and improper work venue in the past two months, Hergus has become one of the most stringent nominations in Donald Trump Cabinet.

Shortly after Trump announced that Hergseus was a candidate for his defense minister, extremist experts had a warning of the clear love of the extreme right symbols, and pointed out that there were at least two and pole on his tattoo sleeves Images related to right wing and new Nazi groups. Hergus himself complained that the U.S. Army rejected his service during the inauguration of Joe Biden in 2021 because a comrade marked him as a potential internal threat.

Hergses wrote in the 2020 party's extremist book "American Cross" that he believed that the United States was moving towards factional violence and claimed that the country was facing a threat of survival from the left. "You must be thinking, 'Pete, you explain this in a very simple term. We have the confrontation between the United States and the left. Goodness and evil. You play too much. The situation is not so bad," Hege Si wrote. "Keep reading, think about it again."

Before confirming the hearing, Hergus refused to meet with the Democratic Party members of the Senate Military Commission, which caused people to worry about whether he was willing to manage the agency in a non -party manner.

At the confirmation hearing on January 14th, Jeanne Shaheen, Senator of the New Hampshire, said that since she joined the committee in 2011, all other nominations have been with her and her before the hearing. Her Democratic colleagues met and questioned Hergses unwilling to do so.

A report from the New Yorker revealed that after the report of Herger's drinking during the day and the reports that are alive and drunk in the workplace, some Republican Senators seem to be feasible to the former Fox News host as a nominee. Sexual doubt.

Hergus refused to answer questions about his behavior at the hearing, and repeatedly answered the questions about improper behavior and discomfort of drunkenness in the Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly many times. "" ".

When Kelly urged Helgus to answer questions about his suspected alcoholism, Hergus said: "All these are anonymous and fake, they are refuted by colleagues who have been working for 10 years."

When the Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin asked him if he would refuse to be unconstitutional and whether he would refuse the army to deal with the US civilians, Hergus avoided directly and said "the prerequisite for my rejection of these issues."

When asked about the support of the three military officials who were accused of committing the crime of war, Hergses acknowledged that the Geneva Convention was the "Land Law", but complained about the "heavy combat rules" that the human rights law strong.

Hegles also insisted that he would bring "warrior culture" to the Ministry of National Defense and emphasized that he is committed to clarifying the diversity, fairness and inclusive policy of the army.

Trump's allies united to support Hergsez and pushed his nominations to be confirmed that the Republican nominations within the Republican Party had little resistance.

Even Aeva Senator Joni Ernst -a veteran and the survivors of sexual assaults, who initially doubted Hergus' nominations -also announced that she would confirm hearing in his confirmation hearing After the meeting, he supported him and stated in a statement that she will "cooperate with Pete to create the most deadly combat forces" and ask him to fulfill his commitment to audit the Pentagon to ensure that women have opportunities in battle while maintaining high standards. And choose a senior official to solve and prevent sexual assault in the team. "