A woman told Monterey police that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Defense secretary, took her phone, blocked her from leaving his hotel room and sexually assaulted her, according to a newly released police report.

The incident has roiled Donald Trump’s transition team since the former president announced Hegseth as his pick for defense secretary.

Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department changed his account of whether he was drunk during a 2017 encounter investigated as a sexual assault.

Revelations of an alleged sexual assault involving Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for Defense secretary, at a meeting of Republican women in 2017 have set off a firestorm.

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The woman who accused then-Fox News host of sexual assault in 2017 said that she "remembered saying 'no' a lot," according to a police report. Hegseth is President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense.

The Fox News host and the woman who accused him of sexual assault were in Monterey for the 2017 California Federation of Republican Women biennial conference

Former Navy pilot, federal prosecutor, and candidate for New Jersey governor, Rep. Mikie Sherrill reacts to recent reporting of sexual assault allegations against Trump defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth and his comments that women should not serve in combat roles in the military.

A recently released police report from the 2017 incident revealed that the woman, who has not been identified, told police that Hegseth blocked the door to stop her from leaving his hotel room and took her phone away before sexually assaulting her.