Pete Buttigieg’s Husband Defends Him After Tucker Carlson Says He ‘Lied’ About Being Gay – By Mary Papenfuss (Huffpost) / Nov 25, 2022
“This kind of rhetoric is easy. It’s so easy to attack people and to go on your talk show and fire people up about something that’s not happening,” Chasten Buttigieg said.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s husband defended him Friday against accusations by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he “lied” about his sexual orientation.
Carlson appeared to suggest that Buttigieg — a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and one-time presidential candidate — only announced he was gay when it served him politically and used it to decry the mass shooting at the LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado that killed at least five people.
Carlson claimed the transportation secretary “wouldn’t even admit that he was gay” until several years ago. That shouldn’t be surprising, given the increasingly vicious attacks against gays, including by Carlson.
Buttigieg has explained that he feared coming out publicly could have ended his career and had him booted from the military.
