Buttigieg Family Targeted by False Child Abuse Report
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg detailed a disturbing incident where an anonymous false report led to police and child protective services intervening at his home, forcing him to be separated from his young twins for a night. Authorities deemed the report, which alleged he posed a danger to his children and claimed he confessed to violent crimes, to be false and politically motivated. Buttigieg expressed profound distress, calling it one of the “darkest hours” of his life and highlighting the incident as an escalation of political attacks and the ugliness of modern politics.