President-elect Trump’s choice to lead the division of military, Pete Hegseth, paid a girl who had accused him of sexual abuse as part of a settlement contract with a confidentiality clause, but Hegseth insists it was a sexual encounter, his lawyer said Saturday.
Hegseth, a veteran of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, was the only person to notify Trump’s transition team of the transaction just lately.
Hegseth’s attorney, Timothy Parlatore, said that his customer had done nothing wrong. ” Mr Hegseth is totally innocent”, he said. We believe she finally extorted him knowing that, at the top of the# MeToo motion, his immediate dismissal from Fox News was likely due to his taking advantage of him, and that’s where she is now.
Parlatore claimed that about two years after the reported occurrence, the lady began making allegations about Hegseth that he claimed were false and that she had suggested that she might bring legal action against him. He sent the girl a cease-and-desist text in early 2020. The lawsuit came weeks after that text, although the number was questionable.
This past year, a lady sent a letter to the changeover claiming that Hegseth had sexually assaulted her friend. The Trump team was rocked. The Californian Monterey police office announced late on Thursday that it had begun an investigation into an Hegseth sexual assault incident in 2017. No charges were filed.
Hegseth was a speech at the California Federation of Republican Women’s event in the Monterey Hotel at the time of the incident. The girl had been with the Democrat women’s team. According to the police speech, the complaint was filed four weeks after the meeting, and the plaintiff had wounds to her knee.
