'This is bad news': Joe Scarborough warns Trump of dirt avalanche coming at Senate hearing
Donald Trump was given a stern warning on MSNBC on Tuesday morning that nothing good will come of allowing his pick for secretary of defense to be grilled in a nationally televised Senate hearing.
Now that it looks like ex-Fox News personality Pete Hegseth may have avoided being forced to step aside by appealing to the president-elect's fondness for public defiance, the next step would be his confirmation hearing — where he can expect Democrats to make a show of grilling him on allegations of sexual assault and former Fox News colleagues' accusations of being drunk on the job.
According to "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough, what will likely occur at the hearings is "bad news" all around for the embattled nominee and the newly re-elected president.
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"So maybe Pete Hegseth, maybe he wins a news cycle here, win a news cycle there," Scarborough began, "But you go to the end of this process, they don't want Senate hearings because if they get Senate hearings with Pete Hegseth, they're going to see testimony, certainly reports like NBC News' report from Fox News employees of public drunkenness recently at Fox News."
'They're going to see reports of alcohol abuse when he was running two vets organizations and some pretty tawdry behavior while running those organizations and have all been outlined in whistle-blower reports," he continued. "They're going to see in black and white, they're going to see financial mismanagement of vets organizations that were very strong when he started there that ended up basically on the verge of bankruptcy and irrelevance through his stewardship of smaller vets organizations.
"And, yes, they're going to see testimony just like we would have seen with [Republican ex-Rep. Matt] Gaetz — it may not have been the 17-year-old girl for Gaetz, but it may have been the other women around that with Gaetz, but here we have the alleged rape," he elaborated. "We have the police report, we have somebody who leaked that to the New York Times and members of this woman's family, if she doesn't testify. Other people testifying about what Pete Hegseth has done in the past."
He then predicted, "It is not in Donald Trump's or the new administration's best interest that this is splayed all over the front pages of newspapers for a week or so while he's trying to get momentum for whatever policies he wants to push. Again, maybe they want to put up a good fight, but at the end of the day, this is just bad news for the DOD, it's bad news for America and the world — it's even bad news for the incoming president."
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