Trump's defense secretary pick faces questions over secret payment deal
Trumpʼs potential defense secretary choice **Pete Hegseth** got into legal trouble over assault claims which ended in private settlement The case brings new light to his nomination process
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
