Kamala Harris and her media lackeys parade her ‘wife guy’, beta hubby Doug Emhoff as a model feminist. So, MAUREEN CALLAHAN rages, how can they stay so shamefully silent now that he’s accused of hitting his ex?

Doug Emhoff, our so-called Second Gentleman, is anything but.

The accusation that Kamala Harris’ husband once punched an ex-girlfriend in the face so hard that she turned away — in public outside an A-list gala in France — was met with complete silence by the Harris campaign.

Why? How can the campaign of “good character” and “joy” – for a candidate who constantly reminds us that as prosecutor she fiercely protected victims – retreat in the face of such a disgusting claim?

Perhaps they hope that if they ignore this, their handmaidens in the national media will continue to follow suit.

After all, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, President Biden’s former press secretary, just had a conversation with Emhoff that bore no resemblance to actual journalism.

The accusation that Kamala Harris’ husband once punched an ex-girlfriend in the face so hard that she turned away was met with total silence by the Harris campaign.

“Your role,” Psaki said in an interview that aired Sunday, “has reshaped the perception of masculinity.”

That’s one way of putting it.

Psaki already knew — as the Mail also revealed in August — that Emhoff had allegedly impregnated his nanny, who was also his daughter Ella’s teacher, while he was married to his first wife. But she has no questions about his integrity? About the way he treats women?

“I’ve always been like that,” Emhoff told Psaki, a creepy grin on his flushed face. “For me it’s the right thing to do: support women.”

Cheers, Doug.

Seriously, what kind of man brags about this stuff? Not someone who really likes and supports women, I promise.

If Psaki and the rest of the left-wing media had actually investigated this story, they might have found out that the babysitter has a much more disturbing claim about Emhoff and what happened to her baby — because the loose-lipped Doug allegedly told the woman who he had allegedly beaten all about that.

Yes, Doug allegedly described how he paid the nanny $80,000 to go away, made her sign a non-disclosure agreement and dismissed her claims about how her reported miscarriage came about.

But hey – strength through joy, people!

This man has been successfully packaged by the Harris camp, with much support from the media, as everything he is not: a ‘ladies man’ – whatever that means – an ally of women and a crusader against toxic masculinity, so proud on Kamala that he gave up his job to support her when she became vice president.

Not because he was a lawyer representing an arms dealer who sold to Afghanistan, Big Pharma, and a nightclub impresario accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault. You know, what a “lady’s man” does: get rid of obligations so as not to damage his spouse’s political future.

If only awkward women were so easy to control.

“Your role,” Jen Psaki said in an interview with Emhoff that aired Sunday, “has reshaped the perception of masculinity.”

Emhoff’s most recent accuser, who goes by the pseudonym “Jane” in the Mail, dated him in 2012. She reportedly told how he walked in, “love bombed” her and introduced her to his son Cole, a teenager at the time, on their first date.

Jane reportedly found the whole thing, including Doug smoking one of Cole’s cigarettes, “weird.”

She also reportedly got the impression that Emhoff’s wife “had the upper hand” in their divorce and couldn’t figure out why.

Then, two months after that first date, during a rollicking trip to a star-studded charity gala in Cannes on May 24, Emhoff allegedly hit Jane.

One of Jane’s friends, an elite businessman from New York City, says he received a call from her moments later.

“It was hard to hear her because she was sobbing,” this friend told the Mail. “She told me she was with a man and he hit her.”

Jane reportedly said she offered the clerk money to skip the long line outside the gala and placed her hand on his shoulder.

Emhoff apparently saw Jane’s gesture as “flirting” – and so, as a feminist man does, he allegedly punched her hard in the face.

“My impression is that he had a lot to drink,” said Jane’s businessman friend. “She sobbed, but she didn’t swallow her words. She told me she broke up with me that night.”

Jane also told another friend at the same time, a female lawyer from New York, who described Emhoff’s alleged attack as sudden and unexpected.

“You would think this was a fairytale trip,” says this source.

Well, it looks like we’re finally meeting the real Doug Emhoff – and he’s no hero for women.

Emhoff’s most recent accuser (pictured left), who the Mail calls the pseudonym ‘Jane’, had a relationship with him in 2012. She reportedly told how he came in and “love bombed” her.

Emhoff allegedly got his nanny, who was also his daughter Ella’s (photo) teacher, pregnant while he was married to his first wife.

Jane shared her horror in 2018 with another female confidante, a top corporate executive. This woman also confirmed Jane’s story to the Mail, including the terrifying coda: Jane got into a taxi to get away from Emhoff, but he allegedly forced his way inside. – prompting her to call the New York City businessman for protection.

Doug Emhoff, feminist. What a lie.

Emhoff, Team Harris has long led us to believe, is a cuddly, tidy, non-threatening beta.

It’s very likely, in my opinion, that this was a deliberate, cynical overcorrection – with Emhoff deliberately portraying himself as such a nice, good guy, with his clumsy stories about his desire to land the great Kamala, give her the to court and marry. hair and linger in the background so that when, rather than if, accusations emerge, they are harder to believe.

It’s sinister.

This is the man who should stand in stark contrast to Trump, who certainly has his own problems with women.

But only one of these men has been forensically examined by the national media. Only one of these men represents a ticket that, as his wife so often says, believes in the importance of “good values,” of “being honest,” of “not going back” to a time when the plight of women was routinely ignored.

Like the fate of Emhoff’s nanny, Najen Naylor.

Emhoff allegedly told Jane — who reportedly told the same friends — that, according to Naylor, she believed Emhoff had been so “aggressive with her, yelling or whatever,” that she suffered a miscarriage. Emhoff reportedly disputed Naylor’s claim.

Doug allegedly described how he paid babysitter Najen Naylor (pictured) $80,000 to go away, made her sign a non-disclosure agreement and dismissed her claims about how her reported miscarriage came about.

A June 28, 2009, police report consistent with the alleged pregnancy shows that the LAPD was called to the home where Naylor lived at 8:14 p.m.

The call was designated ‘priority level three’: ‘life-threatening emergency, lights and sirens on’.

The LAPD would not release any information about this emergency call: what happened, who was involved or the outcome.

Emhoff has some questions to answer, and so does Kamala Harris. The Mail reached out to her campaign for comment two days ago and heard nothing.

How can Harris, this self-proclaimed champion of women – who loves to tell the story of saving her abused best friend, and who smugly treated then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as guilty in his Senate confirmation hearing – despite that there was no credible evidence against it? him – keep quiet?

How long will it take for Harris to finally have a substantive, challenging one-on-one interview? Will the New York Times or CNN treat these women as seriously as Trump’s accusers? Will they accept Jane’s story as readily as they accepted the old memories of Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford or E. Jean Carroll? Or will they dismiss them as eagerly as Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden?

There is a precedent here. Harris’s ancestor, Hillary Clinton, defended Bill when he was accused of multiple sexual assaults — he still does — and it forever damaged her credibility with women voters.

The left’s favorite rallying cry is: “Believe all women.” Will they still dare to do that now?