The New Yorker magazine’s Jane Mayer has revealed Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, was forced out of leadership roles at two veterans organizations for misusing funds, sexually harassing women and being repeatedly drunk on the job. According to a whistleblower report, Hegseth once had to be restrained from joining dancers on the stage of a strip club. In another incident, Hegseth drunkenly chanted “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!” at a bar in 2015.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reports Hegseth’s own mother once accused him of mistreating women. In 2018, Penelope Hegseth wrote him an email that read in part, “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.” The email was sent a year after a woman accused Hegseth of raping her at a California hotel.