President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a nondisclosure agreement, but insists the encounter was consensual, his attorney told The Washington Post in a statement Saturday.
Hegseth's attorney, Timothy Parlatore, told the Post that the Fox host was "visibly intoxicated" at the time of the 2017 incident, and paid an undisclosed amount to the woman because he feared the matter "would result in his immediate termination" from the network.
