Pete Hegseth's mom goes on Fox News to walk back claim that he's an "abuser of women"

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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