Fox News host and nominee to Donald Trump's Cabinet Pete Hegseth paid off a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, per a report from the Washington Post.

Hegseth was tapped by Trump earlier this week to lead the Department of Defense in the president-elect's second term. The sexual assault accusation from 2017 quickly resurfaced, with Trump transition team members admitting that it caught them by surprise.........

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