Trump team concerned there will be 'many more' allegations lodged against Pentagon pick
According to a Washington Post reporter, there are concerns among Donald Trump's transition team that they may be blindsided by more allegations levied against the former president's choice to be secretary of defense.
The day after Trump selected Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to oversee the Pentagon and the U.S. military command, it was revealed that Hegseth was investigated for sexual assault in California in 2017 which had the president elect's inner circle scrambling at the same time they were dealing with the backlash to the choice of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as the next attorney general.
Appearing with MSNBC's Alex Witt, WaPo National Security reporter John Hudson stated, "The concern is that there are going to be more allegations, more extramarital affairs."
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The choice of Hegseth by Tump, "... came together extremely quickly. It started with a phone call between Trump and Hegseth last week asking if he would be interested in being the Pentagon chief. Within a matter of days, Hegseth was on a plane to Mar-a-Lago to have that meeting with which he would accept the position and they put the announcement out," the journalist explained.
"A day after the announcement of the nomination came out a complaint was sent to the transition team with detailed allegations related to an alleged assault from a woman claiming that she was assaulted by Hegseth in 2017 at a Republican conference in Monterey, California," Hudson reported.
"Hegseth, through his lawyer, denies that any assault took place saying that this was a consensual engagement, but there is really a lot of concern, a lot of disappointment within the transition within people close to Trump," he added. "The feeling was that, yes, there was –– he had failed marriages, there have been extramarital affairs but they thought maybe that had gotten beyond him and he had learned a lesson and the concern is there will be many more that come out."
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