Allegations Surface as President Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Faces Scrutiny

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16 November 2024

The future of Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, is now uncertain.

With the following the revelation of a 2017 sexual assault allegation, the liberal media are screaming about it from the rooftops.

This looks like another predictable character assassination attempt, but there seems to be internal turmoil within Trump’s transition team.

Senior officials on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Friday weighed the future of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s choice to lead the Defense Department, amid new revelations that police investigated an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.

The internal turmoil over Hegseth’s future was sparked by a complaint shared with the transition team with extensive information about a woman’s claim that Hegseth assaulted her in a hotel in Monterey, California, after a Republican conference, according to a person familiar with the complaint who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. The woman who drafted the complaint said the alleged victim was a friend who later signed a nondisclosure agreement with Hegseth.

Monterey police confirmed that they investigated Hegseth over an allegation of “alleged sexual assault” in 2017 and that the incident did not result in criminal charges.

The transition team was caught by surprise by the detailed allegations and now fears more negative revelations about Hegseth, said the person familiar with the complaint. “There’s a lot of frustration around this,” the person said. “He hadn’t been properly vetted.”

Tim Parlatore, an attorney for Hegseth, said Friday that the assault allegation was “fully investigated and found not to be true.” Asked whether Hegseth sought a nondisclosure agreement with the woman, Parlatore said that “there’s no other skeletons to come out.” He added, “There’s no reason to withdraw that I’m aware of.”

The president-elect was not told about the extent of the sexual misconduct allegation before he chose Hegseth as the Pentagon nominee because no private firm vetted him, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

Trump communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement that Trump is standing by Hegseth.

“President Trump is nominating high-caliber and extremely qualified candidates to serve in his Administration,” Cheung said. “Mr. Hegseth has vigorously denied any and all accusations, and no charges were filed. We look forward to his confirmation as United States Secretary of Defense so he can get started on Day One to Make America Safe and Great Again.”

In fact, she spouts of false info, that luckily those in the comments brought to light.

Allegations Surface as President Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Faces Scrutiny

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