Penelope Hegseth immediately apologized to her son, Pete Hegseth, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, after sending an email accusing him of abusing women, she told The New York Times.

In 2018, Penelope Hegseth wrote in an email to her son: “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.”

Penelope Hegseth told the Times that she had written the email “in anger, with emotion” while her son and his wife were going through a divorce.

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