Kamala Harris’ husband and Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, had been introduced as a feminist ally and a optimistic determine of masculinity. However, in line with The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, he in the end turned “an issue” for the vice chairman’s marketing campaign that it’s “going to must take care of now.”
Emhoff not too long ago turned the topic of Real Time host Bill Maher’s ridicule as he addressed how the media was steering away from his controversies. “There’s quite a lot of scuttlebutt within the information this week about Doug,” Maher stated in a panel dialogue on a phase of his HBO present. “If folks do not know what is going on on, the Daily Mail is reporting that three ladies [Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend] talked to contemporaneously, which has been the usual fairly often in these circumstances, that she stated again in, I feel, 2011 or one thing, they had been on the Cannes Film Festival. He slapped her. He thought she was flirting with the valet.”
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Conservative and liberal media not reporting Doug Emhoff controversies: Bill Maher
Maher additionally chuckled about it having been confirmed that “he positively knocked up the nanny.” He went on, “What I’m saying is, if this turns into extra credible- and we do not know but. I imply, quite a lot of the conservative retailers nonetheless aren’t reporting it, so I would not go after anyone for not reporting it but as a result of this stuff must be checked out. But if it turns into extra credible, definitely on the extent of Brett Kavanaugh, which was that sort of factor was reported by everyone fairly rapidly. Does the liberal media maintain ignoring it?”
Conservative radio host Buck Sexton answered, “Yes, they’ll. Absolutely.”
Maher consequently requested, “Wouldn’t that make it look worse?”
CNN’s Laura Coates finally stated that it was “honest” to additional dig into the claims and cross-check their authenticity and that it made sense why the media was cautiously treading across the matter, given the intense implications of allegations levelled in opposition to Emhoff. Nonetheless, she continued, “What I do not assume is honest is to, and I’m constant on this on all accounts, is to tar and feather with out extra.”
“I feel it’s a must to give info to folks, and it’s a must to truly do your homework and background. I do not assume by not reporting- and once more, I’m not acquainted with the entire allegations which might be concerned right here, however I feel it’s acceptable to analyze as it’s acceptable to be cautious earlier than you merely put one thing into the ether that has these substantiations.”
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Doug Emhoff’s response to the allegations
Harris’ husband launched an announcement confirming that an extramarital affair with the household nanny had ended his marriage together with his first spouse, Kerstin Emhoff. The claims additionally acknowledged that he obtained the nanny pregnant.
“During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went by means of some robust occasions on account of my actions,” Emhoff stated in an announcement after DailyMail dropped a bombshell report. “I took duty, and within the years since, we labored by means of issues as a household and have come out stronger on the opposite aspect.”
More damning allegations adopted because the British tabloid wrote that he “forcefully” slapped his then-girlfriend in 2012 and engaged in “inappropriate” and “misogynistic” workplace behaviour whereas main the Los Angeles regulation agency Venable from 2006 to 2017.
Earlier this month, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough introduced up a number of “tabloid tales about your private life” throughout an interview with Emhoff on ‘Morning Joe,’ invoking DailyMail’s reviews. However, the second gentleman merely brushed apart these claims with out truly denying the allegations. “We don’t have time to be pissed off,” Emhoff replied. “We don’t have time to concentrate on it. It’s all a distraction. It’s designed to attempt to get us off our sport.”