Police release details of Pete Hegseth sexual assault report
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
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California police have released details about a sexual assault report on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Defense Department. Plus, the House Ethics Commission has reviewed records detailing $10,000 in Venmo payments Matt Gaetz allegedly made to two women in the panel's probe. Gaetz is Trump's nominee for attorney general.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, Ad-Free, right now. |
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| 0:12.5 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. |
| 0:14.8 | And today is Thursday, November 21st, 2024. |
| 0:18.1 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:25.3 | Today, a look at sexual misconduct allegation surrounding several Trump nominees. Plus, what's next for higher education. A woman who claims she was |
| 0:33.1 | sexually assaulted by Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Defense Department, told police in 2017, |
| 0:38.5 | she remembered Pete Hegseth preventing her from leaving a hotel room and that he was on top of her, |
| 0:43.8 | according to newly released documents obtained by USA Today. The woman recounted her hazy memories |
| 0:49.2 | of the encounter, but told police she said no a lot, and that Hegsseth swiped away her phone and blocked the door with |
| 0:55.9 | his body according to documents from the Monterey Police Department. |
| 0:59.8 | Heg Seth and his attorneys have denied the exchange was rape. |
| 1:03.2 | Multiple outlets reported Hegseth paid a financial settlement as a result of the case. |
| 1:07.8 | His attorney said earlier this week that Mr. Hegseff is completely innocent. |
| 1:12.7 | Meanwhile, the House Committee investigating sexual misconduct allegations against former |
| 1:16.9 | Congressman Matt Gates, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, |
| 1:21.6 | obtained records detailing $10,000 in payments, Gates made to two women who were later witnesses |
| 1:27.2 | in the panel's probe, according to multiple media reports. |
| 1:31.0 | Documents under review by the House Ethics Committee, first reported by ABC News, and later the Washington Post, |
| 1:37.1 | outlined 27 payments gates made through Venmo and PayPal between July 2017 and January 2019 to the two witnesses. Both women were over the age of |
| 1:47.0 | 18 at the time of the payments, ABC reported. An attorney for the two women has said Gates paid the two |
| 1:52.4 | women for sex and that one of his clients witnessed Gates having sex with a 17-year-old girl |
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