Sordid information of the sexual assault charges against former National Guard member and Fox News personality Peter “Pete” Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for the future Defense Secretary, have been made public by the city of Monterey, California, in a police report.
According to Knewz.com, Hegseth’s candidacy to succeed retired four-star General Lloyd J. Austin as Secretary of Defense under the Trump administration has sparked serious worries. His purported inappropriate utterances and stated lack of experience have drawn criticism.
A very “drunk” Hegseth allegedly grabbed several women and sexually attacked another in 2017, according to the newly made public police report.
The victim, who was 30 at the time, requested to be called simply “Jane Doe,” the report stated.
According to Doe’s report, she thought Hegseth might have put something in her drink since she had “hazy” memories of the night in issue.
While on a business trip in Monterey, the accused was sipping champagne with colleagues when “things got fuzzy,” and then she “suddenly ended up” in a room with Hegseth.
“I recognized him by the dog tag he was wearing,” she said.
“The way he treats women and said he gave off a ‘creeper’ vibe,” Doe noted in the report, referring to her initial confrontation with Hegseth.
“Hegseth would rub the women on their legs and Jane Doe thought the actions were inappropriate,” the 2017 police report noted, highlighting the fact that many women found the Fox News anchor to be a bit “dreamy.”
According to police, two more women later said that Hegseth “had put his hand on their legs.”
According to the report, Doe and Hegseth got into a fight by the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa’s pool. The former National Guard commander told her during the dispute that “he was a nice guy.”
The next thing she recalls, though, is being in a “unknown room,” and she “did not know where she was and how she got to the room.” Her memory of what transpired just after that, however, is blank.
Additionally, the alleged victim said that despite her repeated “No” responses, Hegseth took away her phone and “physically blocked the door.”
Doe claims to have a fragmentary memory of the alleged sexual experience that ensued. According to what she told the police, she recalled Hegseth asking her if she was alright and then telling her to “clean it up.”
According to the police report, “Doe does not remember what happened after that other than she ended up back in her hotel room,”
Doe went to see a medical examiner on October 12 and asked for a rape kit.
Hegseth reportedly told local law enforcement that the sexual encounter was consensual when they met with him on October 26. According to Hegseth’s account, the police report stated that “they both would stop and say ‘we shouldn’t do this’ but things consensually continued.”
It is important to note, though, that Hegseth’s attorney, Timothy Parlatore, acknowledged that his client paid “Jane Doe” to keep quiet about the alleged sexual assault.
Though the extensively tattooed Defense Secretary nominee has lately made news for being inked, it is also significant that Doe did not recall any tattoos, scars, or marks on Hegseth’s body.
Like Trump’s previous cabinet nominations, such as his selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health Secretary, Hegseth’s nomination has drawn criticism from many quarters.
In his social media commentary on Trump’s selection as Defense Secretary, Iraq War veteran and founder of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Association Paul Rieckhoff referred to Hegseth as “the most overtly political” and “undoubtedly the least qualified nominee for SecDef in American history.”
In addition to his alleged “inexperience,” Hegseth has made it clear that he opposes woke initiatives that advance inclusiveness and equity, which raises questions about his philosophy.In addition to calling for the pardoning of military members accused and prosecuted with war crimes, Hegseth has reportedly questioned the appointment of women in active military combat.
During her appearance on The Shawn Ryan Show podcast, Hegseth effectively referred to the military’s use of women in battle as a handicap and implied that it reduces the effectiveness of the armed services.
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