Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is accused of slapping his girlfriend in 2012. By Vice President Kamala Harris’s standards, he is guilty, and it would be journalistic malpractice for anyone in the media not to ask her about it at every available opportunity.
The accusation against Emhoff is that he forcefully struck his then-girlfriend in 2012 at a Cannes Film Festival event in France. Two friends of the woman said she told them about this after it happened, and another friend said the woman told her about it in 2014. The three friends provided the Daily Mail photos of the couple and proof that they had taken a trip to France at the time.
That is not proof, but it is substantially more corroboration than any of the allegations levied against Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. Kavanaugh was accused by Christine Blasey Ford of rape at a party despite everyone she named as being at the party, including her lifelong friend, saying no such party happened and despite Ford being unable to give a year, let alone a date, of when the party occurred. Kavanaugh was also accused of sexual misconduct with Deborah Ramirez despite Ramirez’s named witnesses denying having seen such behavior.
That was enough for Harris to try and ruin Kavanaugh’s life and reputation to keep him off the Supreme Court. Harris then took another uncorroborated, secondhand accusation against Kavanaugh to demand that Kavanaugh be impeached, even as she botched the details of the story that was brought by two liberal reporters in a book, and not by the woman who was supposedly the victim.
This means that the modest corroboration of the accusations against Emhoff is greater than the nonexistent corroboration of the accusations against Kavanaugh. If those accusations against Kavanaugh were enough for Harris to deem him a rapist and try to keep him off the Supreme Court, and later try to remove him from the court, then what are these accusations supposed to mean for Emhoff?
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Harris must answer questions about her Kavanaugh standard and what her husband is accused of, and any of the pushover “journalists” she chooses for her interview would be committing journalistic malpractice by letting the matter slide. Liberal media have made it clear that spouses of political figures are on the table, with the ludicrous hit jobs against Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas over their wives’ actions. The New York Times recently used two journalists to cover the “scandals” of the wife of Mark Robinson, the North Carolina lieutenant governor running for governor.
The spouse of the vice president running for president is far more important than those aforementioned examples, which liberal media have decided were important enough to cover. Harris needs to answer for her standards and her hypocrisy, as well as what makes the accusations against her husband different than the ones against Kavanaugh, other than that the former may not be completely fictional.
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