“You had sex while you were married to Wife Two, after you just had fathered a child by Wife Three. You’ve admitted that. Now if it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be secretary of defense, wouldn’t it? It was a false claim then, and a false claim now.” “If it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be secretary of defense, wouldn’t it?” “That was a false claim.” “So you —” “You’re talking about a hypothetical.” “So you can’t tell me whether someone who has committed a sexual assault is disqualified from being secretary of defense?” “Senator, I know in my instance, and I’m talking about my instance only, it was a false claim.” “One of your colleagues said that you got drunk at an event at a bar and chanted, ‘Kill all Muslims.’ Another colleague, not anonymous, we have this, said that you took coworkers to a strip club. You were drunk. You tried to dance with strippers. You had to be held off the stage. And one of your employees in that event filed a sexual harassment charge as a result of it. Now I know you denied these things, but isn’t that the kind of behavior that, if true, would be disqualifying for somebody to be secretary of defense? “Senator anonymous, false charges.” “They’re not anonymous. And I’ll just conclude and say this to the chairman, you claim that this was all anonymous. We have seen records with names attached to all of these, including the name of your own mother. So don’t make this into some anonymous press thing.”
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