While corporate media fawned over Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband as revolutionizing “masculinity,” a vicious allegation from his past framed him as “trailer trash.”
Demonization remained a one-way street for the left as all roads pointed to former President Donald Trump, his family, and those who are aligned with them. Adding to the hypocrisy from the moral high ground that paled at any mention of the relationships Harris had to catapult her career came a new allegation that her husband, Doug Emhoff, had once struck a girlfriend so hard she “spun around.”
Speaking with several friends of the New York attorney about the girlfriend referred to by the pseudonym, Jane, the Daily Mail detailed an incident from 2012 said to have occurred after the pair had been dating for three months.
“The Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, 59, allegedly struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around while waiting in a valet line late at night after a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival Event in France,” the outlet reported. “One of her friends told DailyMail.com that the woman called him immediately after the incident, sobbing in her cab, and described the alleged assault.”
“It was hard to hear her because she was sobbing. She told me she was with a guy and he hit her,” described the businessman. “It was very clear what she was telling me. She said she was with a guy, her date, she was at the Cannes Film Festival, and he hit her. She was in the car with the guy at the time.”
Accounts from the friends agreed that Emhoff, who’d been Jane’s plus one to the event, had been set off after he saw her place her hand on the shoulder of a valet while attempting to get their ride called. Thinking that she was flirting, he was said to have struck her leading to their breakup that night.
“[Jane] told me she was so embarrassed,” an attorney friend told the Mail. “She couldn’t believe he is the person that he is and that it turned into this trailer trash moment.”
Details of the alleged incident came as the second gentleman appeared on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” Sunday where the former White House press secretary for the Biden-Harris administration raised the topic of masculinity.
“Something that’s also been an important part, or an interesting part of how people have talked about your role here, is how your role has reshaped the perception of masculinity. I’m not sure you planned on that but you are an incredibly supportive spouse. Has that been an evolution for you?” she asked. “Do you think that’s part of the role you might play as a first gentleman?”
‘Has that been an evolution?’: Psaki asks second gentlemen about ‘role’ in reshaping ‘masculinity’ https://t.co/1BTQPSC261
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) September 30, 2024
“It’s funny. I’ve started to think a lot about this. I’ve always been like this, my dad was like this, and to me, it’s the right thing to do, support women,” he replied in part.
The alleged slap was only the latest allegation of what would otherwise be deemed misogynistic behavior as it had previously been reported that Emhoff had impregnated his young children’s nanny, Najen Naylor, who happened to be his daughter’s teacher, during an affair that ended his first marriage to Kerstin Mackin.
Jane’s friends recounted how they’d been told about that affair and how the second gentleman had “nonchalantly admitted to impregnating Naylor” and “that the nanny accused him of causing her to have a miscarriage, the friends claimed.”
Meanwhile, during a 2023 interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart, Harris’ husband had argued, “There is too much toxicity, masculine toxicity out there and we’ve kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine, where you’ve got this trope out there that you’ve gotta be tough and angry and lash out to be strong.”
“Strength,” said Emhoff, “is how you show your love for people.”
The friends went on to corroborate claims that the second gentleman had told Jane about an $80,000 settlement with Naylor and her consent to a non-disclosure agreement.
Reacting to the report from the Mail, The Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway wrote on X, “This is a horrifying story. I will say that it matches something I recently learned from two California individuals who know Emhoff fairly well and said his reputation for poor treatment of women was notorious in their circles.”
This is a horrifying story. I will say that it matches with something I recently learned from two California individuals who know Emhoff fairly well and said his reputation for poor treatment of women was notorious in their circles. https://t.co/0UBAcs6j6d
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 2, 2024
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