The mother of Pete Hegseth, the embattled former Fox News personality chosen by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, defended her son on a "Fox & Friends" appearance Wednesday morning after the New York Times leaked a 2018 email in which she called her own son an "abuser of women."

Penelope Hegseth said that her son and his wife at the time were in the throes of a "very difficult divorce" when she wrote the email, and that she, a........

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