Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday that he and his family in Michigan were targeted by a “false report” to state authorities claiming he was a danger to his 4-year-old twins.Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscriptionGet exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading.Michigan State Police confirmed in a statement that they had received an anonymous report regarding Buttigieg.State police and Child Protective Services then responded and “determined the report was false,” the statement said.Buttigieg, a Cabinet official in the Biden administration and a potential 2028 presidential candidate, wrote in a Substack post that a police officer and Child Protective Services worker appeared at his home “a few days ago” following an allegation that had been made against him involving his children.He said his children were removed from the home he shares with his husband, Chasten, before the twins went through separate forensic interviews the next morning.
Buttigieg said he was then interviewed as part of the investigation.During that interview, Buttigieg said, an officer told him that an anonymous caller had reported him to CPS, with the caller saying “that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk.”Buttigieg said he told the officer he had never been to the town in Alabama.“Then the officer made clear that he believed this was politically motivated, and said it would not be referred to a prosecutor,” Buttigieg wrote.“Nothing in the forensic interview with the children, which was conducted by trained personnel, had led to concerns.”Buttigieg said he was apart from his children for 24 hours.He said the CPS worker involved in the case had also indicated that she had not found anything to substantiate the allegation, but that the proces...