Megyn Kelly Destroys Pete Hegseth's Accuser with Legal Knockout | Elijah Schaffer's Top 5
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ARTICLE 1: Megyn Kelly Obliterates Pete Hegseth Accuser from ALL Legal Angles – Here’s Why Charges were Never Filed and What Really Happened in Monterey – VIDEO
ARTICLE 2: Donald Trump Jr. Stands Firmly Behind AG Nominee Pam Bondi as Controversial Jeb Bush Endorsement Video Sparks Outrage
ARTICLE 3: OUCH: Team Trump Burns Neocon Nikki Haley with Brutal Reply After She Trashes Two of the President-Elect’s Epic Cabinet Choices
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Megan Kelly obliterates Pete Hegseth's accuser from all legal angles.
Here's why charges were never filed and what really happened in Monterey.
we're talking about this story and so much more here on the gateway pundits we can review my name is Elijah Schaefer and this is the gateway pundits we can review We cover the top five stories of the last 24 hours.
We might be going through a few less stories today because we have one of the utmost importance.
Jim Hoff reports.
It turns out directly here that Megan Kelly was blasting the fake news as they've continually been attacking Pete Hegseth this week regarding a sexual assault allegation from 2017 that was previously investigated and dropped by the Monterey Police Department.
There was a reason charges were never filed and the legacy media knows this.
They are pushing this slanderous attack against Pete Hegseth anyway because they really, really care about powerful men abusing innocent women and children.
Except, of course, if those powerful men include serial abusers like Bill Clinton or gropers like Joe Biden.
We don't get to know any of that because we protect, quote, sexual assault victims, even if we don't know if they're a sexual assault victim, even if no one's ruled that they're a sexual assault victim.
Even those of us at Fox News who came forward against Roger Ailes understood that our identities, like yours truly, would eventually be made known to him so that he could defend himself and ultimately were leaked to the news anyway.
But Jane Doe gets to remain anonymous while making an allegation like this.
That's where we are.
Here are some of the allegations.
Here are some of the things in the police report that Nicole claims she read.
Jane Doe was seen by an eyewitness flirting with Pete Hegseth at Knuckles Bar, which is attached to the Hyatt Regency at which they were both staying and in which he gave the speech, including touching his leg or arm prior to the alleged sexual assault.
They were at Knuckles Bar around midnight.
The alleged sexual assault happened between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m.
She was seen in the bar flirting with him, including touching him.
Two witnesses at the bar, women who we believe were at the conference with her.
She was one of the workers for this conference.
Two witnesses at the bar say Jane Doe did not appear out of control, intoxicated, or drugged.
She did not look that way to anybody.
She appeared completely in charge of her faculties.
She tells the police she only had one glass of champagne that evening.
One glass that she had been drinking more than normal earlier that day, she said, but that night, she only had one glass of champagne, according to her.
And everyone around her says she appeared in control of her faculties and not drugged, not intoxicated.
One woman said she might have been buzzed, but she wasn't drunk.
Cops say videotapes that they reviewed show her at 1:15 a.m. and a second one at 1:30 a.m. with Pete.
1:15 a.m.
She and Pete are walking out of the Knuckles bar, presumably back to his hotel room.
She claims as his handler, she was just getting him from A to B.
And at 1:30, they were stopped because they had an argument pool side about, quote, his treatment of women.
Totally inappropriate boundary crossing by this woman already.
You're his handler.
You don't know each other.
You don't have any right to talk to him about how he treats women.
Stay in your lane.
You've behaved unprofessionally.
You've already crossed the line.
By the way, according to the eyewitnesses, Pete was drunk.
He'd been drinking beer, not hard alcohol, but was drunk by virtually everybody's assessment other than Pete's.
They are seen at 1.15 leaving Knuckles and walking.
They're arm in arm.
They're arm in arm and she is smiling.
She does not appear drunk on the videotape.
She appears in control of her faculties and is not stumbling.
Read the police report, Nicole.
At 1.30 a.m., they get stopped by a hotel front desk guy who is filling in for security because two hotel occupants called and complained about a large loud argument poolside.
The guy went there to get them under control.
Pete was yelling.
I don't know if she was yelling, but they were having some sort of an argument.
And she defended him by saying, oh, sorry, we're Republicans.
And I'll get him to his room.
She put her hand behind his back and shepherded him away from the pool.
Okay, so already she's saying here, look, it's easy to try to say that every situation is always assault.
It's kind of weird, the whole consent issue being that like an act in and of itself is not criminal, but whether or not the people were consenting to it is what makes it a criminal thing.
And I think there's a lot of confusion that can happen, especially when people are drinking.
And I think Megan Kelly's trying to put out here that, look, people do dumb things consensually, and then they blame assault because they got caught or somebody noticed or somebody looked.
Real crimes do occur, of course.
We don't want to write those off, but a lot of things are just a lot of he said, she said.
And of course, she breaks it down even more.
And I think it's pretty remarkable.
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Now, that being said, it's additionally, look, Megan Kelly was just dropping the hammer here saying, it's not exactly what you think.
Okay, so now we've got one, two, three eyewitnesses who are there who say she wasn't drunk.
Her whole story is that someone appears to have slipped her a Mickey and she was too drugged to remember exactly what happened during this allegedly traumatic rape.
When was she drugged?
We are now within 30 minutes of the alleged rape.
She is seen by three eyewitnesses and on two videotapes reviewed by police looking absolutely fine.
Within 30 minutes or so, she will be allegedly raped.
When did she get intoxicated?
When did someone slip her the drug?
The hotel front desk clerk, we mentioned him.
Then she goes to Pete Hotel, his hotel room between 1.30 and 2 in the morning.
This was within moments after the videotape and the eyewitness hotel front desk clerk said she did not look drunk.
She goes into her room, into his room, and she is texting with her husband, it appears, from the room.
The husband is down the hall with his children, their children, in their own hotel room looking for his wife.
He texts her around 2 a.m. saying, I don't remember the last time you were out at 2 a.m.
Like, where are you?
And no response.
And then after 2 a.m., he goes down to Knuckles Bar looking for his wife.
No one's there.
Then at two additional times, I think it was 2.56 a.m. and 3.40 a.m., he calls his wife's phone, no answer.
She's still in there with Pete.
According to the police report, she comes back home to her hotel room with her husband and her two children sleeping.
The kids sleeping.
I don't know if the husband was.
He had just called her at 3.40.
And according to the husband, she does not appear drunk.
The husband says she's not stumbling, she's not slurring, and she's apologetic.
And what does she tell the husband?
That she, quote, must have fallen asleep.
Pete Hegset said they went back to the room.
It was consensual.
They had sex.
She felt guilty.
Her husband was down the hall, and she told him that she would tell the husband that she fell asleep.
The husband told the cops individually, he's not talking to Pete.
She told me when she got home at 4 a.m. when she looked fine, she must have fallen asleep.
Pete, simultaneously talking to the cops, not talking to the husband, says she felt guilty and she told me she was going to tell the husband that she fell asleep.
She was in that room for at best an hour and 50 minutes, an hour and 55 minutes, because she was home by 4 a.m.
At 1.30 a.m., she was seen looking totally fine and not intoxicated.
When did he give her a Mickey?
When did he slip her the alleged rehipnol that made her so drunk and drugged out that she couldn't remember anything about this alleged rape?
She shows up.
The husband says she looks fine and she's sorry.
She doesn't wake up the next morning and run to the cops.
In fact, it's not another 30 hours or so before she then has sex with her husband and it all comes rushing back to her that she was allegedly raped by Pete Hegseth.
Yeah, these sort of accusations are always interesting, right?
It's like things quickly go from inappropriate encounter to sexual assault, then it's rape.
And I really think that it's interesting when we talk about these topics, how it obviously gets extremely blown out of proportion.
There's a lack of accountability in a lot of our cultures, especially with modern feminism, where women feel like, you know, obviously the courts are stacked against men.
I mean, this is a very true thing.
And it's guilty until proven innocent.
And so I think what's kind of crazy here is people say, well, with Pete Hegseth, what did he do?
And is he guilty?
And is he guilty?
No, the police investigated and there was no criminal activity.
But the better question is then why did he pay her off?
I did the podcast yesterday, which we released this morning, and the more I looked at it and the more I slept on it, the angrier I got.
And then I saw news coverage like this, CNN's lead.
A California woman told police that Trump cabinet pick Pete Hegseth physically blocked her from leaving a hotel room, took her phone, and then sexually assaulted her, even though she, quote, remembered saying no a lot.
NBC lead line.
A woman told police that Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary, took her phone and blocked her from leaving his hotel room before sexually assaulting her in 2017 after a convention in California, according to official records of a police investigative release Wednesday.
You could explain it by saying a rape victim doesn't want to confront her rapists.
I get that.
That's one possible interpretation.
Another is she knew he'd say, What the F are you doing, Jane Doe?
You know this was consensual.
And then start offering a bunch of details that made that seem very clear and obvious and true, like a truth teller sounds.
So she declined to do this.
Did anybody report that?
I didn't know about it until I read the police report.
Let's see.
New York Times, did you report it?
No.
Washington Post?
No.
CNN?
No.
NBC?
No.
This is unbelievable.
They don't want you to know.
Did anybody point out that she went to Pete's hotel room between 1:30 and 2 within moments after the videotape and all the eyewitnesses say she did not look drunk?
Did the news offer you that timeline so you could draw your own conclusion?
New York Times, no.
Washington Post, no.
CNN, no.
NBC mentioned that at 1:30 and that she went back to her hotel room at 4, but didn't contextualize how improbable the date rape drug accusation was.
Now, I feel like people who make false accusations should go to jail themselves, right?
I don't think that's a very unpopular idea.
And I know we're supposed to cover all the stories, but today I really wanted to cover that because I feel like we got to clear Pete Hegseth's name and get down to the truth.
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Donald Trump Jr. stands firmly behind AG nominee Pam Bondi as controversial Jeb Bush endorsement video sparks outrage.
Jim Hoff reports that the political landscape erupted Thursday evening as President Donald Trump announced Pam Bondi, former Attorney General of Florida and a staunch Trump ally as his nominee for the next Attorney General of the United States.
Bondi's nomination follows Representative Matt Gates' withdrawal, a decision that shocked many in the conservative base.
In his official statement, President Trump lauded Bondi's impressive record as a prosecutor and her leadership as Florida's first female attorney general.
Quote, I am proud to announce former attorney general of the great state of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next Attorney General of the United States.
Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on violent criminals and made the streets safe for Florida families.
Then, as Florida's first female attorney general, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs and reduce the tragedy of fentanyl, overdose deaths, which have destroyed many families across our country.
She did such an incredible job that I asked her to serve on our opioid and drug abuse commission during my first term.
We saved many lives.
For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans, but not anymore.
Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting crime and making America safe again.
I have known Pam for many years.
She is smart and tough and is an America first fighter who will do a terrific job as Attorney General.
Now, former Congressman Matt Gates, who of course had initially been chosen for the Attorney General role, publicly endorsed Bondi's nomination, calling her a stellar selection.
In a statement, Kate Gates said this: Pam Bondi is a stellar selection by President Trump for Attorney General.
Pam and I worked closely together when she was Florida's Attorney General, and I chaired criminal justice in the state house.
She's a proven litigator, an inspiring leader, and a champion for all Americans.
She will bring the needed reforms to the DOJ.
Pam Bondi is a stellar selection, as said.
Now, despite Bondi's proven loyalty to Trump, a resurfaced video from the 2016 GOP primaries has ignited controversy among conservative bases.
The video shows Bondi endorsing Jeb Bush over the Trump during the contentious Republican primary, a choice that many MAGA supporters view as betrayal.
But of course, we're not, you know, again, Donald Trump Jr. immediately came to Bondi's defense, reminding critics of her steadfast loyalty to President Trump since his rise to power.
Sometimes in politics, you just have to go with what's opportunistic rather than what's necessarily the most ideal set of sponsorship.
Like some people just sponsor people because they're in power, and I've learned that, right?
If I'm making shows and I'm getting a lot of views and people are watching, suddenly everyone wants to be my friend.
I'm getting invited to VIP places and everything's good.
Some drama comes up and people don't want to touch me with a 10-foot pool.
So I know how it works.
And I'll leave it on that.
Three stories I just wanted to mention.
Teeth Trump burns neocon Nikki Haley with brutal reply after she trashes two of the President-elect's epic cabinet choices.
You can find that story on our website.
Plus, the view co-Sonny Hostin fumes as she is forced to read more legal notes for a third time in the week.
That's crazy.
So I feel like we're reading the same stories every day, but of course, they're making the same mistakes all the time.
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