Former US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg revealed a horrific experience he had to go through only because someone decided to target him. He said he was forced to spend a night away from his children because of an anonymous allegation against him, which police say they later found to be false.Buttigieg said that Michigan State Police found no evidence to prove the claim and believed it was politically motivated.The anonymous tip said Buttigieg posed a threat to his four-year-old twins. Police responded to the tip and He arranged for forensic interviews for his four-year-old twins and informed him that he could not be alone with the children until the interviews were conducted, he said.Later, Michigan State Police said the anonymous allegation against Buttigieg was false.
‘In the darkest hours of life’
Buttigieg, who is widely touted as a 2028 White House contender, wrote in a post on Substack that it was “one of the darkest hours of my life.” In the post, he said the latest incident happened shortly after he shared photos of his family on social media for Father’s Day.He said, “I can’t describe the mixture of anger and sadness that I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this.” “They’re four years old. Four. They don’t know or care what’s Democrat or Republican.”Buttigieg said he is concerned about the “unseen effects” of the ordeal on him, his husband, Chasten, and their children.“The caller said she had spoken to a woman who claimed she met me at a conference in Alabama several years ago, where she said I told her I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still in danger,” he said.He said the officer who responded to his home “made it clear he believed this was politically motivated” and that it would not be referred to a prosecutor.“Their time and resources were wasted in a cruel, politically motivated fraud that harmed our family,” Buttigieg wrote.Buttigieg has been the target of LGTBQ attacks in the past, and he said he was not bothered by the fact that the latest incident occurred during Pride Month. “We have become accustomed to saying nasty, hateful, and sometimes violent things about ourselves and even our families,” he wrote. “But this is the first time that someone managed to invade our lives in this way – and drag our children into it.”Buttigieg and her husband became parents for the first time in 2021, when they adopted twins Joseph August and Penelope Rose.