Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s planned nomination to become defense secretary reflects a failure of vetting by President-elect Donald Trump. Mr. Hegseth lacks the temperament, judgment, character and experience to lead the world’s most complex and lethal military organization.

Donald Trump on Friday made his first public comments supporting Pete Hegseth since he began making rounds on Capitol Hill to shore up support amid various allegations.

I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego,” Penelope Hegseth wrote in a 2018 email she now regrets, per New York Times.