
Ryan King of the New York Post reports that in a recent podcast discussion, Kamala Harris “spoke of strategies to curtail sexual and other types of domestic violence,” but that recent accusations about Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, physically abusing his former girlfriend in 2012 didn’t come up. King writes:
Vice President Kamala HarrisĀ spoke of strategies to curtail sexual and other types of domestic violence during an interview on a wildly popular podcast Sunday, but theĀ accusations against her husbandĀ that surfaced last week never came up.
In Sundayās episode of āCall Her Daddy,ā Harris, 59, passionately recalled how she began her career as a prosecutor inspired to take on domestic abusers, but host Alex Cooper, 30, declined to press the veep on the thorny topic of her husband allegedly drunkenly hitting an ex-girlfriend, avoiding the issue altogether.
āThe first thing that I would say to anyone going through it is tell someone that you trust. Donāt, donāt quietly suffer. You have done nothing wrong,ā Harris said about advice she would give to victims of domestic violence.
āOften, the abuser will tell her that if she tells then something worse will happen, and that is usually wrong. And know that there are people that want you to be safe.ā
While hearkening back to her efforts to combat abuse as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general, Harris reiterated the harrowing situation that first inspired her to become a prosecutor.
One of her best friends in high school,Ā WandaĀ Kagan, had told Harris she was being abused by her stepfather. That motivated Harris to want to defend others who were suffering from similar terror.
āWe have to talk about it. Child sexual assault is something that far more people than the public discourse about it acknowledges,ā Harris said while emphasizing the need to ānot stigmatize it.ā
āAbuse of anyone is something we should all take seriously, as opposed to saying itās not our business. Itās something that we have to agree should not happen.ā
Key to making the US a safer country for women is economics, Harris argued.
āWhen a woman, and in particular if she has children, if she is economically reliant on her abuser, sheās less likely to leave,ā she said. āMost women will endure whatever personal, physical pain they must in order to make sure their kids have a roof over their head or food.ā
Left unmentioned during the interview were the shocking accusations against the second gentleman Doug Emhoff from three friends of one of his ex-girlfriends, who claimed he became intoxicated and slapped her back in May 2012, asĀ reported by the Daily Mail.
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