Cuomo, O’Reilly, Stephen A. Smith Rip Media Silence Over Allegations Doug Emhoff Hit Ex-GF

Media personalities Chris Cuomo, Bill O’Reilly, and Stephen A. Smith slammed the media for ignoring a story published by the Daily Mail this week that detailed accusations that Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, struck his girlfriend in the face because he thought she was flirting with another man.

Three friends of the woman, a New York lawyer, told the Daily Mail about the alleged attack in 2012 on the condition that neither they nor the woman, who was only identified as “Jane,” be named out of fear of retaliation.

The report said Emhoff and Jane were in line waiting for a taxi as they were leaving the Cannes Film Festival in France when Jane tipped a valet, hoping to get moved to the front of the line. During the interaction, she allegedly placed her hand on his shoulder, and Emhoff thought that she was hitting on the valet.

He allegedly smacked her across the face so hard that she spun around.

“If the name were Trump instead of Emhoff in this story, it would be all over the news right now,” Cuomo said on his NewsNation show.

The reporter who published the explosive story, Josh Boswell, said that the publication would not have published it unless it was “very credible,” noting that there were credible contemporaneous accounts of the incident and documents about how the two were traveling to the event together. He added that there was even video footage of them together at the event.

“If it were Trump or anyone related to him, it would be on every TV show that is on right now,” Cuomo added. “And that’s why I think of the interest of fairness you should look at it.”

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Smith agreed: “In fairness to Donald Trump, which is not something you hear me or most people say all the time, it is absolutely true if this were him, it would be all over the place. It would be printed. It would be publicized everywhere.”

“We also have to take into account 2018 when then-Senator Kamala Harris, obviously, when the whole Brett Kavanaugh situation, when Brett Kavanaugh was obviously running for the Supreme Court … I remember her wearing all black and saying she was wearing all black, and ‘I wore black today in support of all survivors of sexual assault or abuse,'” Smith continued. “And it was a hashtag, #BelieveSurvivors, etc, etc. And so when you do something like that, it’s going to be politicized.”

O’Reilly said that left-wing activists and movements like Me Too and Time’s Up will say nothing about the alleged attack.

“But if it were a Republican or conservative, they would be denying the person accused of due process, because that’s what they do, unless it’s someone on [their] side,” he said.

Smith agreed, saying that the “bias”, “favoritism”, and “lack of neutrality” in the media was a serious issue.

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Chris Cuomo, Bill O’Reilly and Stephen A. Smith blast the media for ignoring Doug Emhoff hitting a woman in the face. They know that if it were a Republican or conservative it would be everywhere. pic.twitter.com/bcHUme2pT3

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