The Daily Mail senior reporter Josh Boswell outlines allegations second gentleman Doug Emhoff slapped his ex-girlfriend on « Jesse Watters Primetime. »
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s representative called a Daily Mail report detailing three unnamed sources who accused him of having slapped a former girlfriend during a 2012 trip to the Cannes Film Festival « untrue. »
Fox News Digital has not been able to independently confirm the allegations.
« This report is untrue », an unnamed representative for Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband told news outlet Semafor. « Any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false. »
Daily Mail reporter Josh Boswell appeared on « Jesse Watters Primetime » and outlined the claims that Emhoff slapped his then-girlfriend in 2012.
« The process that I went through was extremely thorough and careful about this, because you’re right, we’re on the eve of an election, but the thing that made these sources come forward is not because there’s an election, but because the Kamala Harris campaign was using Doug Emhoff, showing him as this feminist ally, baking up his credentials as an ally to women and that just enraged them », Boswell said.
« I quoted one of them in the piece saying this, that she thought that it was disgusting, that they were portraying him this way, when in fact, these friends knew what had really happened. »
The woman who was allegedly slapped is described by the Daily Mail as a successful New York attorney and is identified only by the pseudonym « Jane. »
The incident was alleged to have occurred in 2012 while Emhoff and Jane were in a valet line at a Cannes Film Festival in Nice, France.
« Jane got into a cab. The valet, either with €100 that she slipped him or the fact that there was this domestic dispute going on apparently, ushered her into a car, but then Doug forced his way in too », Boswell recalled the alleged story.
