A woman told police she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to 22 pages of graphic investigative reports made public late Wednesday.
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... The big picture: Hegseth, a former Fox News personality who is President-elect Trump's nominee to be Defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter was consensual, and he denied any wrongdoing, AP reports.
Driving the news: Investigators were alerted to the alleged assault by a nurse who called them after a patient requested a sexual assault exam, the report says.
- - - The patient told medical personnel something may have been slipped into her drink. ...
Link to police report: PDF ( washingtonpost.com )
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