Sen. Martha McSally Martha Elizabeth McSallyThe Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' New ABC/WaPost poll finds Trump edging Biden in Arizona, Florida MORE (R-Az.), who has spoken of her experience being sexually assaulted in the military, said Tuesday that she does not believe the sexual assault allegation against President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE’s nominee for vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

McSally said Tuesday at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee that she had “full confidence” in Gen. John Hyten, who has been accused by Army Col. Kathryn Spletstoser of unwanted sexual advances, including kissing, hugging and rubbing, in 2017.

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Spletsoser has said Hyten’s advances escalated until he pressed against her in a hotel room and ejaculated on her while kissing her at the Reagan National Defense Forum.

While McSally, who earlier this year spoke of being raped by a superior officer in the Air Force, said she took the allegations “extremely seriously” but that she had reviewed the evidence and concluded “Hyten is innocent.”

.@Senmcsallyaz: "The truth is that General Hyten is innocent of these charges. Sexual assault happens in the military. It just didn't happen in this case. I pray the accuser gets the help she needs…"



Full video here: https://t.co/UUUh4Vtajn pic.twitter.com/JemZqxW9cL — CSPAN (@cspan) July 30, 2019

“Sexual assault happens in the military. It just didn’t happen here,” she added.

Hyten has denied all the allegations, saying at his confirmation hearing Tuesday “I want to state for you and the American people in the strongest possible terms that these allegations are false. Nothing happened, ever.”

Spletsoser, who testified behind closed doors last week, sat in the front row during Hyten’s hearing on Tuesday.