Critics target Harris over domestic abuse stance following reports of husband’s alleged assault

NEW YORK POST

Vice President Kamala Harris’ past condemnations of domestic abuse and sexual assault perpetrators are coming back to haunt her following a report of her now-husband “forcefully slapping” an ex-girlfriend more than a decade ago.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, a 59-year-old Hollywood lawyer, struck his then-flame, a successful New York attorney, in the face “so hard, she spun around” as the two waited in the valet line following an event at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012, three anonymous friends of the woman told the Daily Mail.

Harris critics swiftly seized on the alleged abuse — purportedly prompted by Emhoff’s misplaced jealousy in assuming his beau was flirting with another man — by recalling years of the vice president claiming she “believes women” who are “survivors of sexual assault.”

“Believe survivors,” one X user said Tuesday, sharing the Daily Mail’s troubling report.

“Except Doug Emhoff’s first wife,” another user noted, referencing the second gentleman’s marriage that ended after he impregnated his child’s nanny.