“Pete Hegseth is a strong nominee to lead the Department of Defense. We had an excellent discussion about the need for America’s military to remain the best in the world. That means taking care of our service members, equipping them with the latest technology, and focusing on making our military the most lethal force on the planet. Pete pledged that the Pentagon will focus on strength and hard power not the current administration’s woke political agenda. National security nominations have a history of quick confirmations in the Senate. I look forward to Pete’s hearing and a vote on the floor in January,” says Senate GOP Conference Chair John Barrasso in a statement about the rapey Fox News host who – like his rapey fellow Trump Reich 2.0 cabinet nominee Matt Gaetz was on on Tuesday – is being shopped around the chamber by Barrasso’s colleague, Vice President-Elect JD Vance. Notice how Marco Rubio doesn’t need the same treatment.

The statement is notable as it comes less than 12 hours after cops in Monterrey, California made public a 2017 report outlining the depravity of Hegseth, corroborated by multiple witnesses, and that the assault on the woman was first reported by a nurse and not the accuser, that both other witnesses and the accuser suggested she might have been drugged, and that two other women at the California Federation of Republican Women conference said Hegseth placed a hand on their thighs and invited them up to his hotel room during the event. Oh and that the woman’s husband was looking for her after the white nationalist Fox News host absconded with her to his hotel room.