Journalist and attorney Megyn Kelly further discussed her thoughts on the sexual assault accusation swirling around Trump Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on Friday, going through the police report line-by-line with her audience on “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
Kelly said, in her opinion, it appears the accusation is “bulls***” and the woman was “not raped,” but panicked after her husband became suspicious that she cheated with Hegseth.
A police report concerning the allegation against Hegseth, a decorated combat veteran and former Fox News host, was released on Wednesday in response to a public records request. An unnamed woman claims Hegseth sexually assaulted her in a hotel room back in 2017. Hegseth said that the encounter was consensual and police decided against any further action.
Reading the police report, Kelly noted how the accuser stopped sending texts to someone who’s unnamed, but appears to be her husband, while she was in Hegseth’s hotel room. The woman later told him she had “fallen asleep” and that’s why she didn’t answer him. According to Hegseth, this was the same story the accuser told Hegseth she would tell her husband after expressing panic to Hegseth about how she cheated.
“That’s it right there,