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Jilly_in_VA

(14,394 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:22 AM 22 hrs ago

Hegseth's Top Aide Spilled Jaw-Dropping Claim About Drunken Bender

A top aide to Pete Hegseth spread a rumor that the defense secretary’s drinking habits followed him to the Pentagon, a new report alleges.

Hegseth, whose ex-wife confided in the FBI that he “drinks more often than he doesn’t” and whose former Fox colleagues said he reeked of alcohol before going on air, promised to cut off all booze ahead of his Senate confirmation, which required a Vice President JD Vance tiebreaker.

That made Hegseth’s alleged drinking problem the perfect way to weed out leakers—at least in the eyes of Hegseth’s chief of staff, Ricky Buria, sources tell the New York Post.

Buria reportedly told several Pentagon staffers he and Hegseth donned disguises so they could go on a drunken bender last year, breaking the secretary’s vow of abstinence.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseths-top-aide-spilled-jaw-dropping-claim-about-drunken-bender/

Of course Kegsbreath vehemently denies this and says it never happened.

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Hegseth's Top Aide Spilled Jaw-Dropping Claim About Drunken Bender (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA 22 hrs ago OP
When you're risking the lives of service members for an unnecessary war, it helps to be drunk. surfered 22 hrs ago #1
breaking an addiction of that degree NJCher 22 hrs ago #2
Fox news has turned out to be a very poor HR department for the trump administration PSPS 22 hrs ago #3

surfered

(13,510 posts)
1. When you're risking the lives of service members for an unnecessary war, it helps to be drunk.
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:28 AM
22 hrs ago

NJCher

(43,189 posts)
2. breaking an addiction of that degree
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 11:34 AM
22 hrs ago

cannot be done by mere promise, such as what this individual offered and what was accepted by the Sucker-in-Chief.

He has deep-seated problems and needs to be institutionalized.

I personally doubt that anyone can make a decent life out of what he's working with. He's too far gone.

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