a woman says she was sexually assaulted by Pete hegf in 2017 after he took her phone used his body to block the door to a California hotel room and would not let her leave the room she says he then assaulted her Heth is a former Fox News personality who is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense the allegations against hegf have rocked his nomination though Donald Trump is sticking by his man so far hexa says the encounter was entirely consensual and he did nothing wrong his attorney has a acknowledged that a couple years after the event he did pay money to the woman in a legal settlement but says it was done so to avoid a lawsuit that would have been defamatory