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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday.

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said.

News of the allegations surfaced last week when local officials released a brief statement confirming that a woman had accused Hegseth of sexual assault in October 2017 after he had spoken at a Republican women’s event in Monterey.

BREAKING: Matt Gaetz withdraws himself from being Trump's Attorney General pick, says his confirmation was becoming a "distraction to the critical work" of the Trump transition. pic.twitter.com/9Sq54lOBv1

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 21, 2024

More … Gaetz Withdraws

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Donald Trump is calling around Republican senators to make the case for his most debated cabinet pick — Matt Gaetz for attorney-general.

Trump knew that Gaetz, a former Florida congressman, faced a fight to be confirmed in the Senate as America’s top law officer. However, the president-elect does not have a plan B after rejecting his transition team’s shortlist of candidates, whom he deemed unlikely to carry out the far-reaching restructuring of the Department of Justice that he wants.

The battle has become a test of strength between the Senate, which is reluctant to be steamrolled and is balking at several unconventional nominees, and Trump, who never likes to concede defeat and believes he won an election mandate to put his own stamp on the way the government is run.

President-elect Trump’s new border czar is giving more clarity on exactly how the military will be used to aid in the mass deportations of illegal immigrants that the incoming administration has promised.

Tom Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Trump’s first term, debunked frenzied speculation from some liberals that the military could be deployed to arrest people on US streets — saying that service members would be used for “non-enforcement” duties.

“They certainly can handle transportation, whether that’s ground transportation or air transportation… and certainly help building infrastructure,” he told The Post.

Here we go again. Only a few weeks after the US presidential election, and even before he has re-entered the White House, Donald Trump has whipped up another storm of criticism.

The latest furore is over the president-elect’s nominees for his cabinet – especially Pete Hegseth for secretary of defence, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Robert F Kennedy Jr for head of Health and Human Services. These controversial picks seemed almost designed by Trump to wind up his critics. ‘I would describe it as God-tier level trolling’, said Democratic senator John Fetterman.

It is not yet two weeks since the election, but the change of atmosphere is profound and in some respects hilarious. Where eight years ago, the idea of Trump winning a presidential election was so preposterous that with broad immediate approval and vivid anticipation, and the complicity of the FBI, other Justice Department officials, and the intelligence agencies, and the knowledge of the outgoing president and vice president, the Hillary Clinton campaign financed a fraudulent and defamatory lie that Trump had colluded with the Kremlin to win the election.

While the nomination of Pete Hegseth stunned me at first, upon further reflection its genius became clear. Donald Trump isn’t bringing Pete Hegseth, a decorated Infantry major and longtime Fox host, into the Pentagon to don the green eye shades and closely manage every element of the military behemoth like a reborn Robert McNamara. Trump hired Hegseth to channel George Patton and apply a jump boot to the buttocks of our deadweight military along with an injection of combat arms leadership and attitude.

h/t DS

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) incoming co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy laid out the new agency’s vision during an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, telling the “Sunday Morning Futures” host the aggressive cost-cutting strategy will begin with executive action and lay the groundwork for Congress to do its part.

“The failures of the executive branch need to be addressed because the dirty little secret right now is the people we elect to run the government, they’re not the ones who actually run the government. It’s the unelected bureaucrats in the administrative state that was created through executive action. It’s going to be fixed through executive action,” he said.

h/t DS

In his first 100 days, President-elect Donald Trump plans to begin the process of deporting hundreds of thousands of people. He is expected to end parole for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. And he is likely to undo a policy that significantly constrained deportations for people who weren’t deemed threats to public safety or national security.

Thank goodness for @RealTomHoman https://t.co/ulWzPXpD19

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 16, 2024