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CV NEWSFEED // The DailyMail on Tuesday published an exclusive report that Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, the husband of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, has been accused of physically assaulting both his ex-girlfriend and his ex-mistress.
The news broke shortly after former Biden-Harris administration spokeswoman Jen Psaki praised Emhoff for representing a new kind of masculinity.
According to the DailyMail:
The Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, 59, allegedly struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around while waiting in a valet line late at night after a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival event in France.
One of her friends told DailyMail.com that the woman called him immediately after the incident, sobbing in her cab, and described the alleged assault.
DailyMail.com is not naming the woman, who is a successful New York attorney, but will refer to her by the pseudonym ‘Jane’.
A second friend said Jane, who had been dating Emhoff for three months, also told her about the alleged violence at the time.
The explosive article cited sources close to Emhoff’s ex-girlfriend, who alleged not only a physical altercation between Emhoff and his ex-girlfriend but also additional details about Emhoff’s relationship with former mistress Najen Naylor:
All three of Jane’s friends said she also told them about a disturbing alleged incident during her relationship with the Second Gentleman, in which Emhoff nonchalantly admitted to impregnating Naylor.
Emhoff told Jane that the nanny accused him of causing her to have a miscarriage, the friends claimed. According to the friends, Emhoff did not say how he was allegedly responsible for the miscarriage, and he told Jane that the nanny’s claims were false.
But the Second Gentleman allegedly confessed to Jane that he paid Naylor a settlement of around $80,000, and had the nanny sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
The article sharply contradicts the Harris campaign’s presentation of Emhoff as a champion of women and “supportive spouse” to the Democratic presidential nominee.
“He’s holding himself out to be something he absolutely is not,” said one source:
I feel like people should know who their leaders really are. [Jane] was always leaning Democratic. I have always voted Democratic. If anything I would like to tell a story on the other side. But this is the truth.
“He’s a really bad guy,” stated another source. “To hold him out as a supporter of women is just disgusting.”
Jen Psaki, now an MSNBC hostess, recently stated that Emhoff has “reshaped the perception of masculinity” during an interview.
“I’m not sure that you planned on that, but you are an incredibly supportive spouse,” Psaki also said during her interview with Emhoff. “Has that been an evolution for you, and do you think that that’s part of the role that you might play as First Gentleman?”
“It’s funny, I’ve started to think a lot about this,” Emhoff told Psaki. “I’ve always been like this, my dad was like this.”
