Victim reports memory lapses after leaving the bar where he had been with the Fox News host. She regained consciousness in an unknown hotel room where, she says, Pete Hegseth abused her.
She says Pete Hegseth took her to a hotel room, took her cell phone, blocked the door, refused to let her out, and forced to have sex. The details of what happened in 2017 were presented to the police by the alleged victim of the man chosen by Donald Trump for the position of Secretary of Defense of the United States in his new administration, and who is accused of social aggression.
It was already public that Hegseth had paid a woman to keep quiet about the case in question. The details of the allegation are now recorded in a police authority report relating to the complaint. The 22-page document, cited by the Associated Press, dates back to October 12, 2017. It includes allegations from a woman who told police she was sexually assaulted by Hegseth after being with him at a hotel bar in Monterey, California, after a republican women event where Trump’s chosen one had just spoken.
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The victim of alleged sexual abuse claims that her last memory of that night was leaving the bar where she had been with Hegseth. After that, she assumes he followed her. The next memory is set in an unknown hotel room, where the presenter took his cell phone and prevented him from leaving.
The woman says she got up and tried to leave the room, but Hegseth blocked the door with his own body. He reported to the police that he had said “no” many times and reported the few flashes who says that he had the sexual assault that ended, he assured, because it was completed.
Hegseth, who was a Fox News host for years, later told police the encounter was consensual and denied any wrongdoing, according to the report.
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According to the same document, the woman claimed that she had previously observed Pete Hegseth “acting inappropriately” toward women at the conference, for example, “stroking their legs.” The same day, he reported, Hegseth told him that, despite his behavior, he was a “good guy.”
Before the report was known, the Republican’s lawyer had already publicly justified the payment to the woman, in 2023. He states that his client intended avoid the threat of an unfounded lawsuit against him.
Source: Observadora