'Steeper climb' ahead for Trump cabinet nominee after bombshell intoxication report: CNN

A late Saturday report from the Washington Post that Donald Trump's choice to be secretary of defense paid off a woman who accused him of sexual assault and that he was admittedly "visibly intoxicated” at the time may have created more problems for his confirmation.

According to the Post, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth "paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a nondisclosure agreement, though he maintained that their encounter was consensual."

On CNN, Sunday morning, reporter Daniel Strauss claimed the latest revelation won't help with an already embattled nomination.

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"For the Trump team and the Trump transition team this was, for the incoming president, one of the more knee jerk nominations he had. and it took the Department of Defense and really the larger defense community by surprise," he told the hosts. "In that situation any president would want sterling credentials and a resume that could survive even an early level of scrutiny and that doesn't seem to be the case here."

"So already Hegseth, who is not an obvious choice for this job, seems to have an even more steeper climb to confirmation," he added.

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