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Trump defense pick Pete Hegseth faces new media report on alleged alcohol abuse, sexual impropriety

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Pete Hegseth was previously investigated for suspected sexual assault of a woman attending a Republican event in California in 2017 , but was not criminally charged.

The New Yorker , citing a whistleblower complaint compiled by former employees, says he was drunk on repeated occasions while acting as president of the Concerned Veterans of America , "to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization's events" "At one point, he had to be restrained while drunk while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team," report says.

However, the woman later told police that she was unable to recall much of what happened when she went with Hegseth to his room. She "believes something might have been slipped into her drink, as she cannot remember most of the night 's events," police wrote in their report..

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