A woman has claimed that Doug Emhoff hit her during an argument when they were a couple in 2012, before he married Kamala Harris, and the accusation has prompted a spokesperson for the second gentleman to issue a denial.
The woman has not publicly identified herself. She spoke first anonymously to the Daily Mail and then again after Emhoff’s denial, on the condition that her name not be made public. The tabloid described her as a successful lawyer in New York and published photos of the then couple, but with a blurred face.
She claims Emhoff hit her so hard when they attended the Cannes Film Festival in France in 2012 that the force of the blow spun her around.
The allegations were described as “false” by a spokesperson for Emhoff, speaking to Semafor, as reported by CNN, who added that “any suggestion that he ever hit a woman is false.”
The Daily Mail has cited three unnamed friends of the woman supporting her account and has now accused Emhoff of hypocrisy. The woman herself had only given interviews this week, when she spoke to the Daily Mail.
The woman also criticized what she saw as Emhoff’s reputation as a “perfect” husband and feminist, alongside Harris, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate who will be the first female US president if she next wins against Donald Trump. month.
“It’s said he’s the antithesis of who he really is. And that is completely shocking,” she told the Mail.
Meanwhile, Trump’s election campaign has highlighted the allegations against Emhoff as it fights back against damage to the Republican candidate’s reputation from a civil judgment against him that he sexually assaulted writer E Jean Carroll and serial allegations from dozens of women that he sexually abused. them, all of which he has denied.
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