The accuser — referred to as “Jane Doe” in the 22-page batch of documents released in response to a public records request — met Hegseth at a Republican conference in Monterey, California, where he had been featured as a speaker. After observing Hegseth behaving “inappropriately” with women at the upscale hotel event, she said she confronted him, officers wrote, and the pair argued.
“Doe” recalled Hegseth telling her that he was a “nice guy,” officers wrote. Her next memory was being in an unknown room with Hegseth, according to the police report. She stated that Hegseth then “took her phone from her hands” and blocked the door, according to the documents.
“JANE DOE remembered saying ‘no’ a lot,” the report said.
The women consumed “much more” alcohol than normal that day, she told authorities, and much of the encounter with Hegseth occurred after things became “fuzzy,” she said, according to the documents.
Days later, the accuser told a nurse that she suspected “something may have been slipped” into her drink that October 2017 night, according to the police report. The records do not indicate whether investigators asked her about her suspicion that she may have been drugged.
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