GOP senator claims woman in Pete Hegseth sex assault allegation 'was the aggressor'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 24 November 2024 19:33 GMT


Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin claims Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary was “falsely accused” of sexual assault, defending his claim days earlier that Pete Hegseth had just been “flirting” with his accuser.

A recently released police report from the 2017 incident revealed that the woman, who has not been identified, told police that Hegseth blocked the door to stop her from leaving his hotel room and took her phone away before sexually assaulting her. Hegseth has maintained that the encounter was consensual.

Earlier this week, the Oklahoma senator told reporters in the Capitol that he had read the police report: “If you read it, you can clearly see that it was two people flirting with each other.” On CNN Sunday, Mullin defended his previous claim and said that be believed Hegseth’s insistence that the encounter was consensual “was accurate,” he said.

“There was no case here. He was falsely accused,” he added. “She was being the aggressor. Pete wasn’t even flirting with her. He was flirting with a different girl, and [the Jane Doe] was trying to flirt with Pete.” In the police report, another woman told authorities that Hegseth had invited her back to his hotel room, but she “politely declined.”

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-accuser-b2652854.html

[Walleye]

1. Of course that's what they always say. They think they are so irresistible to women.

She was the aggressor? He wants to be secretary of defense and can’t defend himself against a woman?

[NotHardly]

8. That, in and of itself should be a laughable disqualifier.

[Walleye]

10. Totally agree. I haven't seen any of the current Republicans that do not repulse me.

[IronLionZion]

2. Republicans are against consenting adults

their whole thing is that they don't need anyone's consent. They brag about it openly.

[Walleye]

13. Yes, they are not going to enjoy governing people with the consent of the governed

[Midnight Writer]

3. Hegseth was there hitting on women, just weeks after his baby mama delivered his child.

Sound familiar? Ring any bells?

I know guys like this and they are always on the prowl. They work any room they happen to be in looking for vulnerable "targets". And they are not above "going gangster" to get what they want.

[IronLionZion]

18. "going gangster" has no consequences when predators are in charge of our government

everyone else is prey

[Voltaire2]

4. She roofied herself?

weird.

[milestogo]

5. Was he there?

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Never trust a goober named 'Markwayne' FFS.

[peregrinus]

16. His mother was uncertain of who impregnated her

Her husband Mark or her husband’s brother Wayne.

[CurtEastPoint]

19. or it could have been Darryl or his brother Darryl or....

[AdamGG]

27. Sounds like a serial killer name n/t

[Linda ladeewolf]

7. Sure she was

That’s why Hegseth was on top!

[liberalgunwilltravel]

9. So you want...

Some to head DoD who got beat up by a girl? That’s the tact the Dems should use, since decorum means nothing the MAGAts. And to suggest that the woman, whom dickwad had to pay off was at fault is just disgusting. Maybe some aggressive woman should take little Markwaynejoebillybobdongomer out back and kick his stupid ass. Republicans become more pathetic everyday.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

11. Removed dupe

Dupe removed.

[Marthe48]

12. rwnj support rapists traitors abusers pedophiles

they normalize the criminality and immorality on their side of the aisle, because they are all members of the same gang

[liberalgunwilltravel]

14. It's time

They paid a severe price for their malfeasance.

[Marthe48]

17. I doubt they pay it here and now

But I hope they take their bodies honorless to hell.(that's a line from a poem I like)

[Karasu]

15. How predictably Republican.

[enigmania]

20. Let the

victim blaming begin.

[DallasNE]

21. Was Hegseth Married At the time?

None of the accounts I have read indicate either way.

[Tanuki]

24. Yes, but his (2nd) wife had already filed for divorce

because his then-mistress and subsequent 3rd wife had his out-of-wedlock baby a few weeks before the incident.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14111159/amp/defense-pete-hegseth-baby-divorce-drunken-sex-assault.html

"EXCLUSIVE Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth had a baby with his Fox News producer lover just weeks before claim of drunken sex assault

His marriage had fallen apart when his wife discovered his mistress had given birth to his daughter and his divorce was about to cost him millions.
...
Just weeks later Hegseth, now 44, was accused of groping multiple women and sexually assaulting one as alcohol once again allegedly clouded his judgment.

The allegations of assault could not have come at a more delicate time for Hegseth personally. His accuser made her claims as his divorce proceedings were pending with an initial case conference set to take place less than three weeks later on October 27."...(more.... sorry to cite the Daily Mail, but this type of sordid mess is right up their alley)

[Tanuki]

22. Translation: "She was asking for it." 🤬

[struggle4progress]

23. I didn't realize Markwayne was a witness in the case. Why is he just now coming forward?

[Diraven]

25. #MAGAToo

The collective punishment by Republicans against #MeToo is of course going to be to blame women every time.

[RandySF]

26. Was he there?

[perdita9]

28. A case of Your Body, My Choice

Republicans will always find a way to justify sexual assault

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Mullin replaced that idiot Inhofe

Sounds like they like 'em stupid in Oklahoma.