Second gentleman Doug Emhoff did not deny allegations Friday that he “forcefully” struck an ex-girlfriend more than a decade ago following a booze-filled evening in France, instead calling the claim a “distraction.”
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked Emhoff to respond to several “tabloid stories about your personal life,” in apparent reference to a recent Daily Mail report that he slapped his former flame and hired a “trophy secretary” at his high-powered Los Angeles law firm.
“We don’t have time to be pissed off,” the second gentleman said in response. “We don’t have time to focus on it. It’s all a distraction. It’s designed to try to get us off our game.”
Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, said former President Donald Trump was needlessly amplifying the stories, while making “incredibly crude and lewd” suggestions about Vice President Kamala Harris’ past.
“He’s spreading it about you,” the “Morning Joe” host noted, “saying it should be front and center, he’s saying it about your wife and making incredibly crude and lewd suggestions about her past life.”
“Does it get you off your game?”
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