{"id":2891,"date":"2024-11-24T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/with-gaetz-gone-trumps-troubled-pentagon-nominee-is-in-the-hot-seat-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T23:24:25","slug":"with-gaetz-gone-trumps-troubled-pentagon-nominee-is-in-the-hot-seat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/with-gaetz-gone-trumps-troubled-pentagon-nominee-is-in-the-hot-seat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"With Gaetz gone, Trump\u2019s troubled Pentagon nominee is in the hot seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Matt Gaetz&rsquo;s abrupt withdrawal of his bid to be attorney general on Thursday could be bad news for another of President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s picks: Pete Hegseth. Hegseth&rsquo;s nomination for Defense secretary is facing headwinds over seven-year-old allegations of sexual assault, although he was never charged&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/21\/congress\/hegseth-gaetz-pentagon-00191051\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Matt Gaetz&rsquo;s abrupt withdrawal of his bid to be attorney general on Thursday could be bad news for another of President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s picks: Pete Hegseth. Hegseth&rsquo;s nomination for Defense secretary is facing headwinds over seven-year-old allegations of sexual assault, although he was never charged&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}