Officials who separated former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg from his young twins last month relied on a vague and unsubstantiated allegation from an accuser authorities later deemed possibly “mentally unstable,” according to previously unreported police records.
Source of false Buttigieg allegation appeared ‘mentally unstable,’ records show
Pete Buttigieg speaks at a 2025 town hall hosted by VoteVets in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (KC McGinnis/For The Washington Post)
