Left-leaning domestic violence prevention groups and legacy media figures have touted Doug Emhoff, the husband of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, as a positive example of masculinity, yet they have remained silent after Emhoff faced an accusation of domestic violence.
Last week, The Daily Mail reported that Emhoff assaulted his then-girlfriend while waiting in a valet line at the May 2012 Cannes Film Festival in France. The Daily Mail, citing three friends of the alleged victim, reported that Emhoff struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around.
One of her friends said the woman called him immediately after the incident, sobbing, while in her cab. A second friend also said the woman told her about the purported assault at the time. The third friend said the woman recounted the story in 2018, when Harris had grilled then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about sexual assault allegations.
While The Daily Mail did not name the then-girlfriend or the friends, it published images that the friends provided as corroboration that Emhoff had dated the woman.
Neither the Harris campaign, nor the White House responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment, though an Emhoff spokesperson denied the incident.
“This report is untrue,” the spokesperson told Semafor. “Any suggestion that he would, or has ever, hit a woman is false.”
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