posted November 21, 2024 06:34 PM
The police report said that Hegseth, tapped as Trump’s defense secretary, physically blocked the door to stop the woman from leaving his hotel room before sexually assaulting herGraphic details about a sexual assault allegation against Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth have come to light in a newly-released police report.
The woman at the center of the allegation told police that Hegseth physically blocked the door to stop her from leaving his hotel room and took her phone away, before sexually assaulting her, according to the police report, seen by The Independent.
The woman, referred to throughout the 22-page report as Jane Doe, also told police she remembered saying “‘no’ a lot” to Hegseth during the alleged assault which took place after a Republican women’s conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Monterey, California, on October 8 2017.
The police report released on Wednesday night by the city’s attorney office of Monterey sheds new light on the alleged details of the incident, including how Hegseth was “very intoxicated” and was “giving off a ‘creeper’ vibe.”
Hegseth has maintained that the encounter was consensual and, in the police report, he stated “there was ‘always’ conversation and ‘always’ consensual contact” between the two of them.
His lawyer said Hegseth paid the woman in 2023 to head off the threat of a baseless lawsuit.