Pete Buttigieg became the victim of a prank call and was separated from his twin for a night.
Former US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg revealed a horrific experience he went through only because someone decided to target him. He said he was forced to spend a night away from his children because of anonymous allegations against him, which police said they later determined to be false.Buttigieg said Michigan State Police found no evidence to support this claim and believe it is politically motivated.The anonymous information said Buttigieg poses a danger to his four-year-old twins. Police responded to the information and He said he arranged forensic interviews for his 4-year-old twins and told him he could not be alone with the children until the interviews were conducted.Michigan State Police later said the anonymous allegation against Buttigieg was false.
“Among life’s darkest hours”
Buttigieg, widely touted as a candidate for the White House in 2028, wrote in a Substack post that those were “among the darkest hours of my life.” He said in the post that the latest incident occurred shortly after he shared photos of his family on social media on the occasion of Father’s Day.He added: “I cannot describe the mixture of anger and sadness I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this situation.” “They’re four years old. Four years old. They don’t know or care who’s a Democrat or a Republican.”
Buttigieg said he was concerned about the “unseen effects” of the ordeal on him, his husband, Chasten, and their children.He added: “The caller said he spoke to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still in danger.”He added that the officer who went to his house “made it clear that he believed the matter was politically motivated” and that it would not be referred to the public prosecutor.“They wasted their time and resources on a cruel, politically motivated hoax that harmed our family,” Buttigieg wrote.Buttigieg has been the target of LGTBQ attacks in the past, and said it was not lost on him that the latest incident occurred during Pride Month. “We have become accustomed to having mean, hateful and sometimes violent things said about us and even our family,” he wrote. “But this is the first time someone has been able to break into our lives in this way — and drag our children in.”Buttigieg and his husband became parents for the first time in 2021 when they adopted fraternal twins Joseph August and Penelope Rose.