Pete Buttigieg briefly separated from children as target of politically motivated false CPS report, police say
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false and that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins.Buttigieg wrote in a Substack post that a Michigan State Police officer told him they found nothing to substantiate the anonymous allegation and believed it was politically motivated.He described the 24-hour ordeal as “among the darkest hours of my life.”In a statement, Michigan State Police said they received an “anonymous report” and that they and child protective services “responded and determined the report was false.”According to Buttigieg, a Michigan State Police officer and a child protective services worker came to his home after receiving an anonymous report alleging he posed a danger to his children.
He said authorities arranged forensic interviews for his twins and instructed him not to be alone with them until the interviews were complete.The following day, Buttigieg said investigators told him the anonymous caller claimed he had confessed years earlier to violent crimes during a chance meeting in Alabama.Buttigieg said he had never been to the town where the meeting allegedly occurred.
He said police told him the allegation would not be referred to prosecutors, while Child Protective Services found nothing to substantiate the report.“I cannot describe the mix of rage and sadness that I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this,” writes Buttigieg.“They are four years old.
Four.They do not know or care what a Democrat or a Republican is.”Buttigieg, who is widely viewed as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2028, has long been the target of anti-LGBTQ attacks.In recent years, conservative activists and some Republican officials have opposed efforts to portray same-sex parents as ordinary families in schools and public life.
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