Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, has admitted to destroying his first marriage by getting the nanny pregnant. He's been credibly accused of "forcibly slapping" an ex-girlfriend, and of creating a misogynist work environment at his Los Angeles law firm.
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We believe that women deserve to be believed. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough apparently does not, which is probably why Emhoff on Friday agreed to sit down for a friendly chat with the Morning Joe host. Rather than asking Emhoff about the specific allegations of domestic violence and toxic masculinity, which were first reported in the Daily Mail, the liberal journalist attacked Donald Trump for peddling "tabloid stories" about Emhoff's "personal life."
Scarborough implied the women who made the credible accusations were lying, and asked Emhoff how he maintained his composure while being falsely accused. "I'm just curious. I know I seem like a very zen, mindful person, but I think I'd be pissed off," Scarborough said. "And I'm just wondering how, how do you, how, how do you all stay centered? How do you stay disciplined, and not really go off, and not really push back hard at these things?"
Emhoff was more than happy to answer the softball question. "We don't have time to be pissed off," he said. "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." Emhoff, a seasoned attorney, has not personally denied "forcefully slapping" his ex-girlfriend "so hard she spun around" after he suspected her of flirting with another man in 2012. A friend of the woman, identified by the pseudonym "Jane," told the Daily Mail she called him from a cab and described the alleged assault immediately after it happened. An unnamed representative called the report "untrue."
During the #MeToo movement of 2017-2020, Democrats and journalists insisted all women who accused powerful men of sexual misconduct or domestic violence should be believed. They abandoned this standard in early 2020 after Joe Biden was credibly accused of sexually assaulting Tara Reade, a former Senate aide. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg dismissed Reade's accusation as "ambiguous," and attacked Trump supporters for trying to bully feminists into expressing a "certainty they have no reason to feel" surrounding the alleged assault.
Almost a year before Reade went public with her accusation, Scarborough was defending Biden from other allegations of inappropriate touching. He accused Biden's "crazy" left-wing critics of trying to manufacture a "Me Too" moment. "A man who dedicated his life (through tragedy) to his party is now trashed as a racist and misogynist because he is insufficiently liberal," Scarborough wrote on social media.
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