Buttigieg calls anonymous tip ‘politically motivated’ and says separation from his kids was among his ‘darkest hours’ Pete Buttigieg , the former US transportation secretary, said on Friday an anonymous and baseless accusation of child abuse led child protective services to investigate his family. In a Substack post published on Friday, Buttigieg described the incident – which resulted in him being separated from his four-year-old twins – as “among the darkest hours of my life” and likened the accusation to “swatting”, the practice of calling police with a false report of an emergency to trigger a law enforcement response. Continue reading...