The Return Of The Cheesy One

The Babylon Bee had a story a few days ago, Trump Campaign Raises Millions Overnight With New Donation Ask: 'How Much Would You Pay To Not Have To Listen To Kamala Talk The Next 4 Years?' I hope they would bundle that with an assurance that when Kamala leaves the public eye, she'll take Dougie with her.

Earlier this month, he was minimizing the allegation that he'd slapped a date in the valet line at the Cannes film festival:

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff dismissed scrutiny of his personal life during an interview on Friday, calling tabloid investigations into his past relationships and comments about Vice President Kamala Harris a “distraction.”

“We don’t have time to be pissed off, we don’t have time to focus on it,” Emhoff said in excerpts of an interview that will air in full Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “It’s all a distraction. It’s designed to try to get us off our game.”

Emhoff did not directly address allegations published by the Daily Mail earlier this month that he struck his then-girlfriend in public in 2012 — though the Harris campaign has denied the account in a statement to Semafor.

But it marked the first time he has acknowledged the effort by Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, to amplify unflattering stories about his and Harris’ respective past relationships.

“The stakes are too high, so all that other stuff you’re talking about bounces off,” Emhoff said, insisting he and Harris have not focused on the issue. “We’re not going to let it distract us.”

The New York Post added,

The second gentleman has never commented to the Daily Mail about the multi-sourced report — but an Emhoff spokesperson later called the slapping story “untrue” in a statement to Semafor.

Until Friday, MSNBC had not mentioned the alleged incident, even in passing. The alleged slap also hasn’t been covered by CBS News, ABC News, Time, Politico, the Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR, or the Associated Press, among other major outlets.

However, the link above is to a story in Politico, so Dougie's denials are actually amplifying the story. More recently, he's been campaigning as a person of Jewishness, or something like that, as a Kamala surrogate:

Emhoff, in South FL, says Trump's recent Hitler comments concern him "as a Jewish person"

"We have to take this at face value b/c this is who Donald Trump is," Emhoff says. "He's already told us that he will blame the Jews if he loses."

+ touts Biden admin antisemitism strategy pic.twitter.com/CatrRy8f4T

— Gabby Deutch (@GSDeutch) October 23, 2024

However, according to the Forward, he first Mrs Emhoff wasn't Jewish, their children don't identify as Jews, and Dougie's own Jewish identity is apparently quite recent:

We knew it’d be a longshot to get [Emhoff's] increasingly in-demand — and also still enrolled in college — [daughter] Ella to join one of our Zoomversations with members of the Forward 50. But when the polite decline came, the reason threw me. “Ella is not Jewish,” wrote Joseph David Viola, the spokesman Ella’s Instagram refers queries to.

. . . Viola said in subsequent emails that Ella’s dad has been “celebrating Judaism for a few years now but out of an independent search,” and that Ella was living on her own in New York during this period. “It’s not something she grew up with,” he explained. “Ella truly has no qualms with the faith, but she does not want to speak on behalf of Judaism, as she does not celebrate herself.”

Nevertheless, according to CNN,

Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff on Friday will become the first known second family to host a Passover Seder at the vice president’s residence, a White House official says, a continuation of their efforts to celebrate Emhoff’s Jewish faith.

Harris told Israeli President Isaac Herzog during their phone call Thursday that she would hold a Seder in person at the Naval Observatory, according to a White House official.

But the distractions nevertheless continue. As of this morning,

Doug Emhoff's ex-girlfriend has spoken exclusively to DailyMail.com claiming that he slapped her in the face so hard she spun around at a 2012 celebrity event in France.

The woman, a successful New York attorney, is remaining anonymous, but decided to speak out after Emhoff, Kamala Harris's husband, denied the claims through a spokesman.

Emhoff's accuser, who DailyMail.com is naming only as 'Jane', initially declined to comment on the record. But Emhoff's denial, and his alleged hypocrisy by claiming to be a feminist in media interviews, finally became too much for her.

'What's frightening for a woman that's been on the other end of it, is watching this completely fabricated persona being portrayed,' Jane said.

'He's being held out to be the antithesis of who he actually is. And that is utterly shocking.'

And now he's an observant Jew who's gonna stand up to the anti-Semite Trump. Everything about this guy is phony.