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(5,042 posts)After claiming she herself has been a victim.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/30/politics/hyten-confirmation-hearing-mcsally/index.html
Washington (CNN)Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally, who revealed earlier this year that she was raped while serving in the US Air Force, said Tuesday that the allegations of sexual assault against Gen. John Hyten, President Donald Trump's pick to be the nation's second highest military officer, are unequivocally "false."
Hyten's accuser, Col. Kathryn Spletstoser, was sitting just feet away as McSally dismissed her allegations as untrue before the Senate Armed Services Committee, setting the tone for the entire hearing, which Spletstoser would ultimately condemn as a "political spectacle."
"To be clear, this wasn't just a jump ball. Not a 'he said, McSally said.' Not a situation where we just couldn't prove what allegedly happened. I believe the truth still matters in our country. And the full truth was revealed in this process. The truth is that General Hyten is innocent of these charges," she said during Tuesday's hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee to consider Hyten's nomination as the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.