Raw Story: CNN host hits back as Trump adviser shrugs off damaging revelations as 'gossip'

[Dennis Donovan]

Raw Story - CNN host hits back as Trump adviser shrugs off damaging revelations as 'gossip'

Brad Reed
December 3, 2024 7:37AM ET

An explosive whistleblower report uncovered this week detailed allegations that Trump defense secretary nominee and longtime Fox News personality Pete Hegseth got repeatedly intoxicated publicly while running the Concerned Veterans for America nonprofit organization.

During an interview with CNN on Tuesday, however, Trump adviser Jason Miller tried to brush off the entire report as "gossip."

After host Kasie Hunt asked him about the report, which claimed that a drunken Hegseth once had to be dragged out of a strip club in Louisiana after allegedly harassing workers there, Miller dismissed its significance entirely without engaging with its substance.

"That was basically just innuendo and gossip," Miller said.

This drew immediate pushback from Hunt.

"It was a report from the top of Concerned Veterans for America, the organization that he led, that he was later shown the door of because of allegations of financial mismanagement," she shot back.

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Dec 3, 2024
Kasie Hunt grills Trump ally Jason Miller for dismissing bombshell Hegseth report

[lark]

1. His sexual assaults are a feature for tsf, not a hindrance.

He wants as many women assaulters as possible because he knows most of us are not impressed with his toxic so-called masculinity nd he wants to punish us by forcing us to have unwanted babies, rear them with no help and no medical attention, no vaccines, so they die young and can be replaced by cheaper/younger models.

[SCantiGOP]

5. And read about Miller's offenses

He once slipped abortion medication in his pregnant girlfriend’s drink because he had a wife and new baby at home.
That criminal charge ended his political career in S.C., but then it turned out it was a resume highlight for the MAGA folks.

[sop]

2. And when it's all captured on videotape, it's just "locker room talk."

[ihaveaquestion]

3. Why is this called "hitting back"? It's weak disagreement at best.

This verbal pablum by so-called left-leaning/liberal news hosts is what makes us turn the channel.

[BComplex]

4. I totally agree: it's more trying to ACT like a pushback, but it 100% allows the right wing talking point to stand.

I'm sick of the corporate propaganda.