Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says Re Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-17 04:20:18 | Updated at 2024-11-17 06:35:09 2 hours ago

Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says Re Defense pick Hegseth paid accuser but denies sexual assault, attorney says
Www.stripes.com ^ | 11/17/24 | MICHAEL KRANISH, JOSH DAWSEY

Posted on 11/16/2024 8:14:35 PM PST by CaptainK

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a nondisclosure agreement, though he maintained that their encounter was consensual, according to a statement from his lawyer Saturday and other documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Hegseth’s attorney, Timothy Parlatore, said that Hegseth was “visibly intoxicated” at the time of the incident, and maintained that police who were contacted a few days after the encounter by the woman concluded “the Complainant had been the aggressor in the encounter.” Police have not confirmed that assertion.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
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It's quite the tale. At the time of the alleged assault he was separated from his wife and the accuser was staying in the hotel with her husband.

1 posted on 11/16/2024 8:14:35 PM PST by CaptainK

To: CaptainK

Hegseth touched my pee pee in three year old Sunday school class. Back in 1972.

No really, believe me!

2 posted on 11/16/2024 8:19:54 PM PST by packagingguy

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