An anonymous phone call, Biden cabinet secretary separated from his 4-year-old twins: ‘A mixture of anger and sadness’
Former US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has revealed the horrific experience he endured only because someone decided to target him. He said he was forced to spend the night away from his children because of an anonymous allegation made against him that police said they later determined was false.Buttigieg said Michigan State Police found no evidence to substantiate the claim and believed it was politically motivated.An anonymous tip said Buttigieg posed a danger to his four-year-old twins. Police responded to the report and He said he arranged forensic interviews for his four-year-old twins and was informed that he could not be alone with the children until the interviews were conducted.Later, Michigan State Police said the anonymous accusation against Buttigieg was false.
“In the darkest moments of life”
Buttigieg, widely touted as a 2028 White House contender, wrote in a post on Substack that it was “one of the darkest moments of my life.” He said in the post that the latest incident occurred shortly after he shared a Father’s Day family photo on social media.“I can’t describe my anger and sadness at the thought of someone bringing our children into this,” he added. “They’re four years old. Four years old. They don’t know or care what a Democrat or a Republican is.”Buttigieg said he fears the ordeal will have “unseen effects” on him, his husband, Chasten, and their children.“The caller stated that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference in Alabama several years ago and she stated that I told her that I had committed an unspeakably violent crime and that the caller believed that my children were still in danger,” he said.He said the officer who responded to his home “made clear he believed it was politically motivated” and would not refer the matter to prosecutors.“Their time and resources were wasted in a cruel, politically motivated scam that hurts our families,” Buttigieg wrote.Buttigieg, who has been the target of LGTBQ attacks in the past, said it was not lost on him that the latest incident occurred during Pride Month. “We are used to people saying disgusting, hateful and sometimes violent things to us and even our families,” he wrote. “But this is the first time someone has invaded our lives like this – and dragged our children into it.”Buttigieg and his husband became parents for the first time in 2021, when they adopted fraternal twins Joseph August and Penelope Rose.
