The New Republic72%
Pete Buttigieg Target of Vile Attack on His Young Family 25%
By Hafiz Rashid68%
6/26/2026, 2:05:23 PM
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Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his family were the victims of a false child protective services report, he wrote on his Substack Friday.
“Many times over the years, I have been denounced, yelled at, protested, threatened, and heckled.
I’ve been through political attacks in office, death threats in public life, and rocket attacks in war.
But this is the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began,” Buttigieg wrote.
Buttigieg said that earlier this week, a police officer and CPS worker showed up at his Traverse City, Michigan, home, where he lives with his husband, Chasten, and their twins, Joseph August and Penelope Rose.
They told Buttigieg that a serious allegation had been made against him regarding his children, and that he couldn’t be alone with them until they received a forensic interview the next day, without him or any relatives present.
Then they would discuss the allegations with the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor.
The officer and social worker wished to see the two 4-year-olds, so Buttigieg told them to wait until Chasten would be returning with the children from summer camp.
When they arrived, the kids were fascinated by the police officer’s car, and the adults agreed that the children would stay with their grandparents overnight before their interview the next day.
“The twenty-four hours until they returned are among the darkest hours of my life.
I tried to get my head around the idea that I had been accused of something so serious that I couldn’t be alone around my own children, and had consented to have them interviewed by strangers, without my knowing where the accusation had come from or even what it contained,” wrote Buttigieg.
After the children were interviewed, they went to stay with their grandparents, Buttigieg wrote, and then the police officer and CPS worker met him at his home for an interview.
The officer said that an anonymous woman had contacted CPS, saying that she had met Buttigieg years ago at a conference in Alabama, who allegedly told her that he had committed “unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk.”
The police officer asked if Buttigieg had been to a certain town in Alabama, to which he replied no, as well as “a couple of obvious questions.”
After that, the officer said that he believed the accusation was politically motivated and that it would not be referred to a prosecutor.
The CPS worker also said the allegation could not be substantiated, although her process would take longer to complete.
But Buttigieg was allowed to be alone with his children again, and Chasten was told the same information from the officer and CPS worker, and the two were able to pick up their children.
“For twenty-four deeply distressing hours, we had no idea what I was accused of or what was about to happen.
We could not understand someone abusing the system like this in order to hurt me and my family with an absurd and easily refuted allegation of a horrific crime,” Buttigieg wrote.
“We’re used to nasty, hateful, and sometimes violent things being said about us and even about our family.
But this is the first time someone managed to invade our lives like this—and drag our children into it,” Buttigieg added.
Buttigieg has been targeted by the right for his same-sex marriage and position within the Biden administration, facing false allegations of sexual assault in 2019 and, bizarrely, receiving mockery and criticism for taking paternity leave as a Cabinet secretary during the Biden administration.
Making a false allegation and targeting a politician’s children is an egregious crime, and should be roundly condemned across the political spectrum.
Let’s see if conservatives actually do the right thing.
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