{"id":261,"date":"2026-01-12T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:18:25","slug":"ht5-sad-news-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"HT5. Sad news Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"363\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-262\" src=\"https:\/\/webunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615558914_122186131988765178_2762504542198747620_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615558914_122186131988765178_2762504542198747620_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/webunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615558914_122186131988765178_2762504542198747620_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615558914_122186131988765178_2762504542198747620_n-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/webunews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/615558914_122186131988765178_2762504542198747620_n.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"363\"><\/h2>\n<h2 data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"363\">Pete Hegseth: Military Veteran, Fox News Host, and the Truth Behind Viral Donation Claims<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"1244\">Pete Hegseth is a prominent U.S. Army veteran, television personality, and co-host of\u00a0<em data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"791\">Fox &amp; Friends Weekend<\/em>\u00a0on Fox News. His career bridges military service, political advocacy, and media commentary, making him one of the most recognized conservative voices in America. Like many high-profile figures, Hegseth has also been the subject of viral misinformation\u2014particularly claims about large charitable donations that fact-checkers have debunked. This article takes a verified look at his life, career, and public influence, based solely on credible sources.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"1244\">\n<h2 data-start=\"1251\" data-end=\"1280\">Early Life and Education<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1569\">Born on June 6, 1980, in Forest Lake, Minnesota, Pete Hegseth grew up in the Midwest before pursuing higher education at prestigious institutions. He attended\u00a0<strong data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1473\">Forest Lake Area High School<\/strong>\u00a0before enrolling at\u00a0<strong data-start=\"1494\" data-end=\"1518\">Princeton University<\/strong>, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth: Military Veteran, Fox News Host, and the Truth Behind Viral Donation Claims Pete Hegseth is a prominent U.S. Army veteran, television personality, and co-host of\u00a0Fox&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webunews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}