Pete Hegseth published a column claiming sex with an unconscious woman is not rape

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What we can confirm

Authoritative reporting by Reuters and corroborating investigations by The New Yorker and Snopes establish that, while publisher of Princeton's student newspaper in 2002, Pete Hegseth oversaw or published an unsigned column arguing that intercourse with an unconscious woman was not a clear case of rape because she could not experience duress. The claim is substantively true, though wording that Hegseth personally authored the piece is not established; he was its publisher or editor.