Conservative commentator Ann Coulter is having none of Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense.

Coulter, who’s had an up-and-down relationship with the former president, referred to Pete Hegseth as “sleazy” over accusations of sexual assault and infidelity.

“What I found strange and continue to find strange about the attacks on Trump’s defense secretary proposed nominee Pete Hegseth — also, his main qualification: a morning weekend host on Fox News — is. there is all this you know, ‘Did he assault this woman in the hotel or didn’t he? Was it consensual and she didn’t want her husband to know, so four days later, she cried rape?’ Yes, that happens a whole lot. A lot, a lot, a lot,” Coulter said on her podcast “Unsafe with Ann Coulter.”

“But in all of this talk about whether Pete Hegseth is an abuser of women, it just, no one even mentioned that he is a serial adulterer! Are we a society that doesn’t care about adultery anymore?” Coulter added.

Documents surfaced after his nomination that accused Hegseth of sexual assault in 2017. A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late.

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said.

The Defense Department has a budget exceeding $800 billion, with about 1.3 million active-duty troops and another 1.4 million in the National Guard, Reserves and civilian employees based worldwide.

More recently, reports surfaced that claimed Hegseth had to step down from a pair of nonprofit veterans groups he headed after workers filed allegations of mismanagement and sexual misconduct.

The New Yorker reported he was forced out of Concerned Veterans for America, which he worked as president of from 2013 until 2016, after a whistle-blower report that includes an anecdote of him being held back from trying to dance on a stage with strippers.

From the report:

“(It described) him as being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity — to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization’s events. The detailed seven-page report — which was compiled by multiple former C.V.A. employees and sent to the organization’s senior management in February, 2015 — states that, at one point, Hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team. The report also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time, and other members of his management team sexually pursued the organization’s female staffers, whom they divided into two groups — the ‘party girls’ and the ‘not party girls.’ In addition, the report asserts that, under Hegseth’s leadership, the organization became a hostile workplace that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an allegation made by a female employee that another employee on Hegseth’s staff had attempted to sexually assault her at the Louisiana strip club.”

Coulter was an enthusiastic Trump supporter during his 2016 campaign. But has since described him as “an awful person.”

She announced she planned to vote for him in this year’s election because the former president tapped JD Vance as his running mate.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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