By <a class="c-link lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary-dark:hover lrv-u-text-decoration-underline:hover lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/nikki-mccann-ramirez/" > Nikki McCann Ramirez</a> <br> Republican senators don’t seem too worried about all of the damning reporting emerging about Secretary of Defense nominee <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/pete-hegseth/" id="auto-tag_pete-hegseth" data-tag="pete-hegseth" >Pete Hegseth</a>.<br> “They’re throwing disparaging remarks at someone who has earned a great deal of credibility. Are soldiers sometimes wild childs? Yeah, that can happen,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pete-hegseth-meeting-republican-senators-brush-misconduct-allegations-rcna182569" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >told NBC News</a> on Monday, the day after <em>The New Yorker</em> reported that <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/hegseth-chanted-kill-all-muslims-misused-funds-1235188853/" >Hegseth’s problematic behavior</a> led two separate veterans groups to force him out of his leadership role.<br> Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) added that he’s “known Pete for a while, so in my experience with him has always been positive.” In a Monday post on X, formerly Twitter, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) <a href="https://x.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1863794465384628365" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >wrote</a> that Hegseth is “an outstanding choice for Secretary of Defense” and that she is “confident he will bolster our military and make an excellent addition to the Trump administration.” <br> The wave of support came as Hegseth, a former weekend Fox News host, has been meeting with the Republican senators who will decide whether he’s fit to lead the Pentagon. The senators currently backing Hegseth are largely staunch Trump supporters, and their public praise of Hegseth may be an attempt to pressure more moderate members of the GOP caucus to similarly write off the allegations against him.. <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1"> <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300"> <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;" class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text" data-priority="10" > <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0" class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad=""> <script type="application/javascript">
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