Pete Buttigieg claims he was the target of a false anonymous report alleging that the former Transportation Secretary posed a danger to his four-year-old twin children.
According to Buttigieg in a post on his Substack, a Michigan State Police officer and a child protective services worker came to his home in Traverse City.
Authorities arranged forensic interviews for his twins and instructed him not to be alone with them until the interviews were complete.
Buttigieg described the 24-hour ordeal in a Substack post as ‘among the darkest hours of my life.’
Michigan State Police said in a statement to The Associated Press they received
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