Pete Hegseth‚ Trumps pick for defense secretary post got into a sticky situation that ended with money changing hands and a keep-quiet deal (even though he says everything was ok between both sides)
The whole thing came out when his lawyer Timothy Parlatore spoke up on sat: Hegseth who was drunk at the time made some kind of deal with a woman who said he did something wrong; though he keeps saying they both wanted whatever happened to happen
The police got pulled into this mess a couple days after - and hereʼs where it gets weird: Parlatore says the cops decided the woman started everything but nobody in law enforcement wants to back that up. His lawyer also mentioned that Hegseth was pretty much out-of-it that night - which doesnt help make things look better
The timing is super-bad since Hegseth is trying to get the top defense job; this kind of stuff with NDAs and secret payments makes people ask questions about what really went down that night