Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff meets with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Wednesday, January 31, 2024, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Oliver Contreras)
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 Harris spoke of strategies to curtail sexual and other types of domestic violence during an interview on a wildly popular podcast Sunday, but the accusations against her husband that surfaced last week never came up.
In Sunday’s episode of “Call Her Daddy,” 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.
“The first thing that I would say to anyone going through it is tell someone that you trust. Don’t, don’t quietly suffer. You have done nothing wrong,” Harris said about advice she would give to victims of domestic violence.
“Often, 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.”
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, Wanda 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.
“We have to talk about it. Child sexual assault is something that far more people than the public discourse about it acknowledges,” Harris said while emphasizing the need to “not stigmatize it.”
“Abuse of anyone is something we should all take seriously, as opposed to saying it’s not our business. It’s something that we have to agree should not happen.”
Key to making the US a safer country for women is economics, Harris argued.
“When a woman, and in particular if she has children, if she is economically reliant on her abuser, she’s less likely to leave,” she said. “Most women will endure whatever personal, physical pain they must in order to make sure their kids have a roof over their head or food.”
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, as reported by the Daily Mail.
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