In November 2024, Pete Hegseth, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, came under
scrutiny for his past, in which a woman had accused him of sexual assault. In response, Snopes readers and various online posts raised another action from Hegseth's past — varied claims that he had either published or written a college newspaper column that said sex with an unconscious woman was not rape.
The
claim appeared
on X, along with a screenshot of text from the alleged article. The X post
stated Hegseth was responsible for publishing such a column: "Pete Hegseth published a column in college that claimed having sex with an unconscious woman is not rape.
President-elect Donald Trump's selection for defense secretary was once the publisher of The Princeton Tory magazine.
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