Why under no circumstances should Pete Hegseth be entrusted with the U.S. military

But will Senate Republicans do their duty?

Friends,

Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, scurried among Senate offices this past week trying to reassure senators that reports of his wild drinking, sexual harassment, and other improprieties were just media smears.

He even had his mother (whose own years-old letter disapproving of her son’s sexually abusive behavior went public t…