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