Hegseth, a Fox News host, was one of Trump's first 'shock and awe' nominees to the president-elect's incoming cabinet. He had quickly forfeited posts atop two veterans' nonprofit groups amid charges of financial mismanagement, excessive drinking, and sexual misconduct, according to an investigation by The New Yorker's Jane Mayer. From that inauspicious start in the military advocacy world, he landed his Fox gig, where he just as rapidly took up the same conduct.
The complainant describes the sensation of awakening in Hegseth's hotel room, which she didn't recognize, in a disoriented state, suspecting that she had been drugged; she also recalls repeatedly saying 'no' as Hegseth reportedly moved in on her for sex, and requested a rape test after the encounter. Hegseth denies the account and says the sex was consensual; his lawyer says he reached the financial settlement solely to protect his Fox gig.
Hegseth manages to stand out, even in Trumpland, as the only cabinet nominee denounced as 'an abuser of women' by his own mother. The Trump White House was reportedly blindsided by the assault charges, but continued to promote Hegseth's nomination and dispatched him to meet with senators on Capitol Hill to prepare for his confirmation hearings.
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