2024-10-03 14:25:03
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Vice President Kamala Harris’s previous remarks on domestic violence resurfaced on social media Wednesday following reported accusations her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, once slapped an ex-girlfriend.
Three anonymous friends of the victim reportedly told TheDailyMail.com Emhoff struck the woman in the face with enough force to cause her to spin around. The alleged incident reportedly took place at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in France as the two waited for a valet.
Emhoff had reportedly been drinking at the time of the alleged incident.
Following the reported allegations, social media users resurfaced multiple of Harris’s previous comments regarding domestic abuse. The vice president was among several Democrats in 2018 who responded to allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“Wore black today in support of all survivors of sexual assault or abuse,” then-Senator Harris wrote in 2018. “We won’t let them be silenced or ignored. #BelieveSurvivors.”
“Oooh, Kamala. This did not age well,” writer and consultant Jennifer Oliver O’Connell wrote while resharing the post Wednesday.
Harris that year also posted “I stand with women across every industry to say #TIMESUP on abuse, harassment, marginalization, and underrepresentation.” That post included a graphic reading “we want all survivors of sexual harassment, everywhere, to be heard, to be believed and to know that accountability is possible.”
John Tammes, a retired Army officer, replied to the 2018 post Wednesday with a link to the allegations against Emhoff. Conservative columnist Rusty Weiss also reshared the post, writing “Sorry Dems – Every woman must be believed. Your rules. Now get to condemning [Emhoff] in the strongest possible terms.”
“We need to take crimes against women and children more seriously — crimes like human trafficking, domestic violence, and child abuse,” Harris also wrote in 2017.
One of Harris’s signature lines on the campaign trail this year jabs former President Donald Trump over accusations against him of past sexual assault.
“Before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general of California, before that I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris says in a clip shared to YouTube. “In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds [including] predators who abused women.”
“So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type,” she adds to applause from the audience. “I will proudly put my record against his.”
The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment from The National News Desk regarding the allegations against Emhoff.
Trump during a rally in September pitched himself to women voters as “your protector” and promised they won’t “be thinking about abortion” if he is elected in November.
“You will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared,” he said. “You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today.”
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