Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway told CNN she was assaulted by a woman while dining in Bethesda.

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Kellyanne Conway told CNN she was assaulted by a woman who was “screaming her head off” while dining with her daughter at a Bethesda restaurant last fall.

The White House counselor and lightning rod for controversy told CNN that she was dining at Uncle Julio’s, a Tex-Mex chain in the Maryland suburbs, with her daughter and her daughter’s friends when a woman approached her from behind, “grabbing my arms, and was shaking me to the point where I felt maybe somebody was hugging me,” she said during an interview for a forthcoming CNN series Badass Women of Washington. “She was out of control. I don’t even know how to explain her to you. She was just, her whole face was terror and anger. She was right here, and my daughter was right there. She ought to pay for that.”

In charging documents obtained by CNN, Conway told police that while the physical contact lasted a couple of seconds, the suspect “continued to yell and gesture at her for approximately 8-10 minutes before she was escorted from the restaurant.”

According to CNN, a woman named Mary Elizabeth Inabinett was charged in relation to the incident in November. She faces charges of second degree assault and disorderly conduct, and her trial is scheduled for the end of March, per Maryland court documents. In the Old Line State, second degree assault is broadly defined as any time harmful touching occurs.

Inabinett’s lawyer, William Alden McDaniel Jr., said that Inabinett would plead not guilty to the charges. “Ms. Inabinett saw Kellyanne Conway, a public figure, in a public place, and exercised her First Amendment right to express her personal opinions.” he said in a statement. “The facts at trial will show this to be true, and show Ms. Conway’s account to be false.”

The alleged incident occurred during the divisive Supreme Court confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh, who now sits on the highest court in the land. She wasn’t the only Republican confronted in a restaurant over Kavanaugh’s nomination, during which multiple allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas had to briefly leave Michelin-starred Fiola when protesters chanted “We believe survivors.” This was hardly the first time Trump administration officials have encountered opposition in public places.

Indeed, a recent Esquire story catalogues how Trump officials have been “shunned not just by the city’s traditional hosts and hostesses but also by an activist public. ‘You pour a few drinks into an impassioned American citizen and most of the time they will end up screaming at a Trump staffer,’ one hostess said. ‘People get mad at themselves if they leave a room and haven’t confronted someone who they believe has done damage to democracy.’”