Buttigieg says his family was target of 'politically motivated hoax'
Source: MS Now
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said his family has been targeted in a politically motivated hoax after someone made a false report to Child Protective Services alleging he committed crimes against his children.
An anonymous caller had contacted CPS, Buttigieg wrote in a post on Substack on Friday. The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk.
Buttigieg, a prominent Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender, likened the incident to swatting when someone calls 911 to falsely report an immediate threat, often at a public figures home but with Child Protective Services instead of a SWAT team.
Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/buttigieg-says-his-family-was-target-of-politically-motivated-hoax
Watching Nicolle cover this with guests including Ian Bassin, executive director of Protect Democracy who said something by way of "we all need to take the temperature down." How disappointing for him to promote the right-wing notion that this is both sides.
wcmagumba
(6,993 posts)BaronChocula
(4,975 posts)to make false reports. I'm waiting to hear on some legal follow-up.
electric_blue68
(27,924 posts)How hideous to lie like that!
Hope they find her, and charge her!
Catlady123
(87 posts)To put those children through this. This could have a lasting effect on them. Monsters are amongst us. Ugh
hookaleft
(1,400 posts)They need to check the caller id
Karasu
(2,324 posts)resorting to shit like this.
dave99
(581 posts)mntleo2
(2,658 posts)...for what reason, I have no idea. It is stupid and ridiculous. My uncle was gay and the safest, funniest, creative man any kid could ever be with. I loved him to death ~ and so did my cousins of both genders. Sheesh!
Cat from Seattle
BaronChocula
(4,975 posts)to malign more marginalized people because it makes them feel in control. Some people actually believe myths about people who are different from them and others repeat those myths knowing they're false, because they're just terrible people - the type of people who would call CPS on gay parents with a fabricated story of abuse.
Stargazer99
(3,606 posts)Government by and for criminal acts to control the masses by fear
electric_blue68
(27,924 posts)It's the RW that's doing almost all the violence!