{"id":141953,"date":"2025-01-28T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141953"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:57:22","slug":"sen-tillis-assured-hegseths-sister-in-law-speaking-out-would-make-a-difference-before-tillis-was-deciding-vote-confirming-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141953","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Tillis Assured Hegseth&#8217;s Sister In Law Speaking Out Would Make a Difference &#8211; Before Tillis Was Deciding Vote Confirming Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2025\/01\/27\/tillis-assured-hegseths-former-sister-in-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Wire<\/a>: &#8220;\u201cA key witness in the contentious Senate confirmation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was assured by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) that her sworn statement would carry weight in last week\u2019s vote and could convince Republican senators to oppose the nominee,\u201c the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/pete-hegseth-affidavit-thom-tillis-08af5bce?mod=djemalertNEWS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cTillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth in a call on Jan. 19, witnessed by two other people, that if she signed the statement testifying that she believed her former brother-in-law Pete Hegseth has an alcohol abuse problem and was abusive to his second wife, it would carry weight, and potentially move three votes\u2014his own, along with the votes of Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cOn Friday, Tillis became the 50th senator to vote \u2018yes\u2019 on Hegseth, clinching his confirmation to lead the Pentagon.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: &#8220;\u201cA key witness in the contentious Senate confirmation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was assured by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) that her sworn statement would carry weight in last week\u2019s vote and could convince Republican senators to oppose the nominee,\u201c the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0reports. \u201cTillis personally assured Danielle Hegseth in a call on Jan&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141955,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141953\/revisions\/141955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}