If Kamala Harris is elected president of the United States next month, her husband will receive the unprecedented title of ‘First Gentleman’.
However, I can hardly think of a less apt way to describe Doug Emhoff who, if married to almost anyone else on the planet, could be condemned as an alleged #MeToo monster.
In August, the Daily Mail revealed how, in 2009, Emhoff cheated on his first wife with his daughter’s nanny, who was also a teacher at his private school. The Mail also reported that Emhoff had allegedly gotten her pregnant, leading to the end of his first marriage and the nanny losing her teaching job in the process.
No one from the Harris campaign, the Emhoff camp, or the nanny ring denied any part of the story. Emhoff has since admitted to the affair.
If Kamala Harris is elected president of the United States next month, her husband will receive the unprecedented title of ‘First Gentleman’. However, I can hardly think of a less apt way to describe Doug Emhoff.
Earlier this month, the Mail dropped another bombshell: Emhoff allegedly once punched an ex-girlfriend in the face so hard in public that she turned around. The claim was corroborated by three friends of the alleged victim, who say she told them that the slap occurred while waiting in a valet line at an event during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in France, about two years earlier. for Emhoff to marry Harris.
An anonymous representative for Emhoff has said that the report is “false” and that “any suggestion that (Emhoff) would or would ever hit a woman is false.”
On Thursday, Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend spoke exclusively to the Mail and insisted that her story is, in fact, true.
‘Doug came out of the (valet) line, walks over and turns me around by the right shoulder. “I’m totally unprepared, I’m not wearing a corset, I’m wearing four-inch heels, I’m wearing a long dress and it’s between 2 and 3 in the morning,” said the woman, referred to only as ‘Jane’ in the report. “He slaps me so hard that I turn around and I’m in complete shock,” he added. “At that moment, his mask fell off and I saw his dark side.”
As a survivor of rape and domestic violence, I find these accusations absolutely appalling.
The Mail’s stories about Emhoff’s alleged violence have threatened to open the floodgates when colleagues at his former law firm claimed he had been “inappropriate” and “misogynistic” at work and had allegedly punished female workers who did not reciprocate. his flirting.
The Mail also revealed a 2019 lawsuit claiming that while engaged to Harris, Emhoff hired an “unqualified” part-time model as a legal secretary “because she was young, attractive and friendly to the powerful men in the office.”
In a recent appearance on MSNBC, Emhoff dismissed stories about his personal life as a “distraction.” Interviewer Joe Scarborough didn’t even ask if the claims were true, only whether they had been upsetting to our potential First Gentleman.
It’s even more incredible that (weeks after news of his infidelity broke) Emhoff was described as a “modern sex symbol” by Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell because, she insisted, he is “secure enough in his own masculinity as in “Sometimes he prioritizes his wife’s ambitions over his own” – referring, of course, to his current wife.
‘That. A. Hunk,” Rampell concluded breathlessly, happy to dismiss the babysitter affair as simply “pre-marital drama.”
What is happening here?
Far from being the ‘feminist’ man that some on the left like to imagine, Emhoff is, in fact, a prime example of exactly what the #MeToo movement is fighting against: a wealthy and influential man who allegedly exploited the power imbalance in relationships for their own gratification.
Emhoff allegedly once punched an ex-girlfriend in the face so hard in public that she turned around. Why, then, has he not been expelled from polite society?
In the case of the nanny, it was at the expense of a woman 12 years younger than him and an employee of his. His life changed forever.
Why then hasn’t Emhoff been expelled from polite society?
Because his wife is the current vice president of the United States. And he is the beneficiary of a huge double standard.
Apparently, we no longer believe in all women for a long time, as the founders of #MeToo once said.
A public ally of sexual abuse victims, Kamala Harris, would certainly seem to have adequate bona fides.
In 2017, he tweeted: “Sexual harassment and misconduct should not be allowed by anyone and should not occur anywhere.”
The following year, as a U.S. senator, Harris introduced the EMPOWER Act, which would have prohibited companies from covering up sexual or other forms of harassment with nondisclosure agreements.
Harris has also been seen as something of a ringleader in a campaign of possibly fabricated attacks against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, also in 2018. He was accused of sexual assault with scant evidence.
When Harris was asked in 2019 about the accusers, including Tara Reade, who claimed that President Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her years ago, she said: “I believe them and I respect that they can tell their story and have the courage to do so. “. do it.’
The hypocrisy is stunning, and not just on Harris’s part.
Where are the #MeToo activists denouncing Emhoff? Where is the media spotlight when it comes to a man about to become our ‘First Gentleman’?
How does Emhoff skate freely and clearly, without asking questions, throughout the entire process?
I speak on behalf of many women like me, who have been abused and lived to talk about it: shame on them, shame on him and shame on her too.