The reporter who launched several news cycles on Doug Emhoff questioned Thursday why legacy media would refrain from covering explosive allegations against Kamala Harris’ husband.
Josh Boswell, senior reporter for DailyMail.com, appeared on Thursday’s episode of The Morning Wire to discuss his reporting on Emhoff. Boswell’s sources have told him not only that Emhoff cheated on his ex-wife with his children’s nanny, but also that Emhoff allegedly slapped his former girlfriend while they were partying in France, and that Emhoff behaved in an “inappropriate” and “misogynistic” manner at the law firm Venable, where he formerly worked.
Legacy media waited to report on Boswell’s first story, about Emhoff cheating with his nanny, until Emhoff confirmed some details of the story himself. But outlets like The New York Times and the Washington Post have yet to cover Boswell’s second story, on Emhoff allegedly slapping his ex-girlfriend, nor have they covered Boswell’s third story, describing Emhoff’s behavior towards female colleagues at work.
“It does surprise me,” he told Morning Wire. “It surprises me because this is a major public figure, let alone whether Kamala wins or not. Doug Emhoff is the Second Gentleman. It’s a public office, it has influence, it has power, it has staff working for him who are paid using public money.”
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“These are allegations that very much fit in with the years of allegations against powerful, influential men that have been coming out since the #METOO movement started in 2018,” he added. “Which is an important movement. It’s important that people hear about these allegations and that they are investigated.”
“And yet when it comes to the husband of the vice president, someone who is running for the presidency, for the Democratic Party, we’re not hearing the same kind of calls for investigation or follow up stories from some of those legacy media,” Boswell said. “That surprises me, and I hope that they are going to pick up the ball on this.”
Neither the White House nor the Harris campaign have responded to requests for comment from The Daily Wire regarding the allegations against Emhoff. An unnamed Emhoff spokesman told Semafor that The Daily Mail’s report that Emhoff drunkenly slapped his ex-girlfriend is “untrue” and that “any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.”
Harris herself has not addressed the allegations, and in the few interviews that Harris has done, she has not been asked to discuss the topic.
During a Tuesday interview with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, former President Donald Trump accused “corrupt” media outlets of hiding negative stories about Harris and her husband.
Trump specifically pointed to an interview Harris did on MSNBC, or “MSDNC” as Trump said.
“It was like a love fest,” Trump told Shapiro. “Never asked him about that. Never asked him about the other one.”
“And we’re saying he’s like a symbol for all men all over the world? It’s the craziest interview I’ve ever seen,” Trump added, seemingly in reference to former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki’s praise of Emhoff. “If that were me, it would be the greatest story in the last five years.”
