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Trump's defense secretary pick Fox News' Pete Hegseth was investigated for sexual assault in 2017
The Daily Mail ^ | 11/15/2024 | Emily Goodin

Posted on 11/15/2024 8:09:52 AM PST by thegagline

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in 2017 but no charges were filed.

The alleged incident took place in the early morning hours of Oct. 8, 2017, at the address of the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa in Monterey, California, the city said in a statement. The police department investigated 'an alleged sexual assault' involving Hegseth, a Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran, that was reported four days later, according to the statement.

The victim's name and age are confidential.

No weapons were involved, according to the statement, but there were injuries – 'contusions to right thigh.'

No further details were released and the city said it would not release the full police report, noting it was exempt from public disclosure. The statement did not say what happened to the investigation.

Hegseth, who was divorced from his second wife at the time of the alleged incident, has not been charged in any criminal case or named as a defendant in any civil lawsuit.

Timothy Parlatore, a lawyer representing Hegseth, told news outlets: 'This statement confirms that although an allegation was made, it was fully investigated and no charges were filed.' The Trump transition team was aware of the allegation.

Incoming chief of staff Susie Wiles was briefed Wednesday night about it, Vanity Fair reported.

Wiles and Trump's lawyers spoke to Hegseth about it on Thursday. Hegseth told them the allegation stemmed from a consensual encounter and called it a 'he-said, she-said' situation, a source told Vanity Fair.

Hegseth was a speaker at the California Federation of Republican Women conference at the Monterey hotel when the encounter that led to the investigation occurred. ***

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The scurrilous smear campaign has begun. Get ready for Christine Blasey Ford part 2.

From “Believe all women” to …

1 posted on 11/15/2024 8:09:52 AM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Being “investigated” does not mean “guilty”, no matter how often the media wants us to believe otherwise.


3 posted on 11/15/2024 8:14:47 AM PST by Wuli
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To: thegagline

Yes, they will be hunting that gal down and paying for the most tearful testimony they can get.


4 posted on 11/15/2024 8:14:51 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: thegagline

Every Trump pick will get an anal probe and even when the results are negative the MSM will just make up stuff. Our enemies are evil and relentless.


5 posted on 11/15/2024 8:15:50 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: thegagline

Congress keeps a yearly funded honey pot fund to compensate all the girls and boys they play sticky fingers with. They actually have a budget for it. So STFU.


6 posted on 11/15/2024 8:16:31 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: V_TWIN

OF COURSE THE WOMAN REMAINS ANONYMOUS.


7 posted on 11/15/2024 8:16:44 AM PST by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: thegagline

The Deep State dirt machine is gearing up for a big fight...


8 posted on 11/15/2024 8:16:57 AM PST by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: piasa

Probably holding auditions now.


9 posted on 11/15/2024 8:17:04 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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To: alstewartfan

A red flag 🚩.


10 posted on 11/15/2024 8:18:38 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: piasa

Courtesy of Schwartz Gyorgy and the world enslavement forum.


11 posted on 11/15/2024 8:19:05 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Skooz

As we speak.


12 posted on 11/15/2024 8:19:19 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: thegagline

The Dems jumped the shark on this crap with Trump. Two down, how many more cabinet picks are guilty? I’m anxious to see if they trot a male or female or whatever out when they get around to slandering Gabbard.


13 posted on 11/15/2024 8:19:56 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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Every Trump pick will get an anal probe

Did someone say “anal probe?”


14 posted on 11/15/2024 8:20:11 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: thegagline

The victim’s name and age are confidential.

No weapons were involved, according to the statement, but there were injuries – ‘contusions to right thigh.’

Why is victim’s name and age confidential? If a police report was filed it seems to me that would be on the public record. Also, whose right thigh had contusions? I want details!


15 posted on 11/15/2024 8:21:58 AM PST by kawhill
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To: thegagline

Who at FoxNews hasn’t been investigated for sexual harassment? This seems to be their favorite method to terminate people.


16 posted on 11/15/2024 8:22:05 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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Investigated and cleared...

Dang... these people just never stop.


17 posted on 11/15/2024 8:22:07 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: thegagline

They could “ investigate” my pastor for “ sexual assault” with nothing more than a lying whore he never met or barely knew, swearing he touched her.


18 posted on 11/15/2024 8:23:13 AM PST by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: thegagline

is piglousy and its spawn writing

” wrap up smear”

scripts for media now ?


19 posted on 11/15/2024 8:24:02 AM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: thegagline

Trump should have waited until Jan 20 to announce his picks. The left will turn this into a circus for the next 2 months.


20 posted on 11/15/2024 8:24:05 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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