Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff did not deny allegations he slapped his ex-girlfriend during a soon-to-be-released MSNBC interview.
The moment came on Friday when the network shared a snippet of the second gentleman’s sit-down interview with “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough. The interview is expected to air on Monday. As The Federalist’s Tristan Justice previously noted, three friends of the alleged victim claimed to the Daily Mail that Emhoff “struck the woman named under the pseudonym ‘Jane’ following a glitzy night out at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in France.”
The victim’s friends also provided photos, “other documents and communications corroborating elements of the story,” according to the outlet.
While Emhoff reportedly didn’t respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment, a spokesman for the second gentleman told Semafor, “this report is untrue” and “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.”
During his interview with Scarborough, Emhoff was pressed on Donald Trump’s decision to forgo a second debate with Harris. The second gentleman contended the former president is spreading a “fog of misinformation and disinformation and gaslighting.”
Scarborough quickly agreed, arguing Trump is spreading untrue claims about Emhoff and implying the Daily Mail’s reporting constitutes “misinformation.”
“And he’s spreading [‘misinformation’] about you, saying that tabloid stories about your personal life, saying it should be front and center,” Scarborough said, indirectly referencing the Daily Mail story. “I know I seem like a very zen, mindful person, but I think I’d be
