Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth addressed concerns over his use of alcohol in an interview with a former colleague, Megyn Kelly, pledging not to drink on the job if confirmed to oversee the vast U.S. military apparatus.
Since President-elect Donald Trump made Hegseth his pick for secretary of defense, reporters have surfaced troubling allegations about his behavior in and outside of the workplace. He allegedly demonstrated a history of alcohol abuse, according to a bombshell report from The New Yorker, and supposedly concerned his colleagues at Fox News by getting very drunk.
An embattled Hegseth said Wednesday that, if confirmed, he would be willing to give up alcohol.
“I’m not going to have a drink at all. It’s not hard for me, because it’s not a problem for me,” he said on “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
“I need to make sure that the senators, and the troops, and President Trump and everybody else knows, when you call me 24/7, you’re getting fully dialed-in Pete, just…
