Real Time host Bill Maher questioned why Democratic second gentleman Doug Emhoff wasn’t enduring greater scrutiny for his past treatment of women.
DailyMail.com reported that Emhoff impregnated the family nanny while married to his first wife, allegedly slapped an ex-girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival and was “inappropriate” and “misogynistic” at work.
During the past week overtime segmentMaher pointed to this report and asked his panelists if the liberal media would continue to ignore it.
“And wouldn’t that make everything seem worse?” -Maher asked.
Maher explained to his audience details about the 2012 incident at the Cannes Film Festival. ‘He slapped her. “He thought I was flirting with the valet,” the longtime HBO host said.
And he got the babysitter pregnant, right? That’s confirmed,” chimed in panelist Buck Sexton, a conservative talk show host.
Real Time host Bill Maher questioned why Democratic second gentleman Doug Emhoff wasn’t enduring greater scrutiny for his past treatment of women.
Maher responded affirmatively.
‘That is confirmed. “He definitely got the babysitter pregnant,” the comedian laughed.
Shortly after DailyMail.com broke the story of the affair, a statement was provided to CNN confirming Emhoff’s relationship with the family’s nanny, which resulted in a pregnancy.
‘What I’m saying if this becomes more credible and we don’t know yet. I mean, a lot of the conservative media still isn’t reporting it, so I wouldn’t go after anyone for not reporting it yet because these things need to be reviewed. But it does become more credible, certainly to the level of Brett Kavanaugh, which was that kind of thing that everyone reported pretty quickly,” Maher said. ‘Is the liberal media still ignoring it?’
CNN’s Laura Coates argued that it was appropriate to investigate the claims but also be “cautious before simply putting something into the ether that has such substantiations.”
“Just politically, this is a problem for the Harris campaign, largely because it is so ill-defined,” said The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta. “Americans are trying to fill the gaps around her and her family.”
Harris will have run the shortest modern presidential campaign, snatching the top of the Democratic ticket from President Joe Biden on July 21, the day the 81-year-old decided to withdraw from his re-election bid due to concerns about his age.
DailyMail.com reported that Emhoff impregnated the family nanny while married to his first wife, allegedly slapped an ex-girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival and was “inappropriate” and “misogynistic” at work.
Not even two weeks later, news of Emhoff’s affair broke.
“I think there’s a little blood in the water now; the babysitter thing was the first straw and now there’s more and it won’t be long. I can guarantee you that there are investigative teams at the Times and at the Post and other places that are investigating this,” Alberta also said.
As of now, the Harris campaign is using Emhoff heavily on the campaign trail, with Election Day less than three weeks away.
“I think it’s very convenient that the allegations demand more study, demand more evidence when it’s really important for a Democrat that we not all say, ‘Wait a minute, this guy seems like a big jerk,'” Sexton added. ‘And it is being used as a substitute in the campaign for masculinity…’
Maher spoke about Sexton, noting that former President Donald Trump has faced similar accusations (of cheating, of physical assault) and that he is the actual candidate, not the candidate’s spouse.
“He’s not going to be president and the guy on the Republican side who’s running for president did these things himself,” Maher said of Emhoff, also shortening the name of the Republican Party after Sexton referred to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat “. Party”, which is considered an insult.