Sean Parnell, a combat veteran, speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Ed Fry Arena in Indiana, Pa., Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)
Sean Parnell, a former US Senate candidate from Western Pennsylvania, was hired as the Pentagon’s top spokesperson earlier this week. Parnell received Donald Trump’s endorsement ahead of the 2022 primary, but had to suspend his campaign due to domestic abuse allegations.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hired Sean Parnell, a former US Senate candidate and army ranger from Western Pennsylvania, earlier this week to be the top Pentagon spokesperson.
Hegseth and Parnell have both been accused of domestic violence by former family members.
Hegseth, who denied the allegations, was accused of having a drinking problem and allegedly caused his second wife to fear for her safety, his former sister-in-law testified in a sworn affidavit.
Parnell, a Pittsburgh native, served in the military from 2004 to 2010, unsuccessfully ran for the US House in 2020, and launched a short-lived US Senate campaign in 2021 that was plagued by domestic abuse allegations.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in Nov. 2021 that Laurie Snell, Parnell’s ex-wife, accused Parnell of choking her during their divorce proceedings. Parnell was also accused of abusing his children and telling his former wife to get an abortion.
“He tried to choke me out on a couch and I literally had to bite him” to get free. “He was strangling me,” Snell testified.
Parnell denied the allegations, but suspended his Senate campaign weeks after the Philadelphia Inquirer’s reporting.
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