Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized most media outlets for not covering reports that Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff physically abused his girlfriend in 2012, and the Republican candidate said: If he had been charged, he said, “It would have been the biggest news ever.'' 5 years. ”
In an interview with Daily Wire founder and podcaster Ben Shapiro, the 78-year-old president highlighted Emhoff's “forcible slap” on his ex-girlfriend after an event at the Cannes Film Festival in France. I was asked about the lack of gathering.
“[Emhoff] “MSDNC is one of the worst groups, one of the truly horrible, horrible groups of people,” Trump lamented, using his preferred nickname for MSNBC. “And it was like a love fest. I never asked him about it. I never asked him about the other one.”
“[They] “He said he was like a symbol for all men around the world,” the 45th president added. “If it were me, it would be the best story of the last five years.”
President Trump was clearly referring to Emhoff appears on MSNBC's “Inside with Jen Psaki” It happened just days before the Daily Mail reported on the abuse allegations.
President Trump was likely suggesting that Emhoff's “other” story was the breakup of his first marriage after he impregnated his child's nanny.
Emhoff did not deny the report, telling CNN in a statement that he and his first wife “went through a difficult time because of my actions.”
Psaki, who served as White House press secretary from 2021 to 2022, rebuked Emhoff, saying he had “reshaped the perception of masculinity.”
But according to three sources cited by the Daily Mail, Emhoff, 59, made so much noise that he made his then-girlfriend's face spin while waiting in the valet line after the Cannes event. It is said that he punched her in the face with such force.
Two of the sources said they were told about the late-night alcohol-fueled assault at the same time, and the other heard from the woman involved in 2014.
Emhoff spokesperson told semaphor The report is “false” and “[a]Any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false. ”
CBS News, ABC News, Time, Politico, Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, Associated Press, MSNBC and others have not yet covered the Mail report.
Still, former CNN-turned-NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo said in a segment after the article was published that “if the name was Trump instead of Emhoff, it would be in the news a lot.” .
Emhoff was also accused of being “too flirty” with women when he ran the Los Angeles office of white-shoe law firm Venable LLC from 2006 to 2017. According to a report in the Daily Mail on Tuesday, and a lawsuit filed against the company in 2019.
Former Venable staffers say Emhoff, who married future Vice President Kamala Harris in 2014, hired models as “trophy secretaries” and singled out other “young, pretty girls” at the company to ride in his limo. He revealed that he had invited him to do so. .
Harris, 59, has been interviewed since the scandal surfaced, but has not yet been asked about the allegations against her husband.
On Sunday, Veep joined the podcast “Call Her Daddy” to discuss prosecuting perpetrators of sex and domestic violence, but host Alex Cooper, 30, did not raise the allegations against Emhoff.
A second couple also appeared hand in hand on Monday in front of the official residence at the Naval Observatory for a tree planting commemorating the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel.
Harris was one of the most outspoken critics of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, urging senators to “believe women” like Christine Blasey Ford, who claims to be a survivor of sexual abuse. I appealed.
Journalists have not pressed her on whether she holds her husband to the same standards.
