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Trump Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth’s lawyer Tim Parlatore said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Saturday that sexual assault allegations from seven years ago — in 2017 — were “completely investigated” at the time and that he is “completely and totally innocent.”
This incident happened at the height of the Me Too Movement when a number of high profile men in media became the focus of allegations of sexual assault and harassment. “Fox News was not going to just sit and wait a couple of years to see what the court said — they were going to fire him,” Parlatore said. “So, of course, we entered into mediation. We ultimately came to a to a settlement.”
“But now it opens her up to a lawsuit for defamation and because it’s in California, California has a simple extortion statute, so we could sue her for extortion, too,” he said. “It’s one of those things where, depending on how the next couple of months play out, I have a lot of options at my disposal of how to deal with the breach of the agreement,” he said.
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