Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of defense, the former Army National Guard major and Fox News host Pete Hegseth, has no clear policy or management experience that qualifies him to run the Pentagon.

By what we now can call the Gaetz Standard, he ought to be. He’s vain and unqualified and has a history of sexual-assault allegations that he denies but that have a considerable mound of evidence piling up behind them.

Following the departure of Donald Trump’s attorney general pick Matt Gaetz, who was forced to step down after being dogged by allegations he slept with a high school girl, attention will turn to his defence secretary hopeful,

Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, met with senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday as new details emerged about an alleged sexual assault that took place in 2017.