Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to Pentagon meetings after he ousted top officials: report
Source: The Independent
Sunday 03 May 2026 20:02 EDT
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is now bringing his wife to meetings with Pentagon staffers as his inner circle grows tighter, according to a report.
The move comes as Hegseth has faced increased criticism and ousted more than two dozen Pentagon officials in recent weeks. It also comes as Hegseth leads the nation’s efforts in the Iran war and constantly promotes the success the U.S. has had in its attacks. Hegseth has now grown increasingly isolated within the Pentagon, according to The Guardian.
Hegseth has also expressed fear and paranoia about President Donald Trump firing him, the report noted. Now, Hegseth has brought his wife, Jennifer Rauchet, a fellow former Fox News producer, to some meetings and she sits in the back of the room.
It’s unclear if Jennifer had any role at the meetings or was just there to observe.
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She must be Kegbreath's binkie. She and MTG could be twins.
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out of your use of the term "pocket book". I haven't heard anyone use that word in decades. 
but as all one word.
If it could hold money and any type of card (had slits for driver's license, credit cards, and even an insert for photos, etc), it was a "wallet"!
Alternately, one of my uncles loved to carry around a wad of $100 bills and he would put THAT in what I would call a "billfold" - basically something that was a long narrow cover (usually leather) with a metal clip on the inside running across the center, where you could fasten a wad of paper currency, and then fold the whole thing in half to slide in a pocket.
for change and bus tokens (and sometimes safety pins and extra bobby pins)!
Pence's "Mother".
Even if she wasn't, I'm sure she gas plenty of contacts to feed info to.
I am assuming that is no longer a thing.
It's a thing for the lowly civil servants but not so much for the GS-1000s.
I was a fed from the start of Raygun's 2nd term through to the first couple weeks of 45's first term and every damn year, we ran the flaming gauntlet of annual "Ethics" training and that included 3 major revisions to the Hatch Act (under Poppy, Clinton, and Obama). I remember at one point when there was confusion about whether feds could even display lawn signs at their residence or a bumper sticker on their car.
