“The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character,” the New York Times reports. Wrote Penelope Hegseth: “On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say… get some help and take an honest look at yourself.” She also wrote: “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego.