Pete Buttigieg separated from 4-year-old twins after ‘false’ CPS report of ‘horrific crime’
June 27, 2026 | Kevin Haggerty
As former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recounted some of the “darkest hours” of his life involving his adopted children, some wondered where his fury was when similar crimes were committed against conservatives.
Friday, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who leapfrogged to a cabinet position and is considered a top contender for the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nomination, shared details on how his family received a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS).
Writing for his Substack a day after NBC News highlighted the likely White House hopeful’s active campaigning for Democratic candidates, Buttigieg detailed how he was separated from the four-year-old twin boys he adopted with his homosexual partner, Chasten, and the unknown “harm it has done.”
“This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report,” he captioned a link to his story on X. “We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.”
Within the piece, Buttigieg explained how CPS came knocking on his door after a thirdhand allegation that the couple committed an unspecified crime against the children, requiring the boys to be subject to a forensic interview without a family member present.
“Afterwards, they would come back and interview me. And only then would they tell me anything about the nature of the allegation,” he wrote, though he himself did not elaborate on what the nature of the allegation was.
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