Harris past domestic violence statements come back to haunt her in wake of allegations Doug Emhoff slapped ex-girlfriend

Vice President Kamala Harris’ past condemnations of domestic abuse and sexual assault perpetrators are coming back to haunt her following a report of her now-husband “forcefully slapping” an ex-girlfriend more than a decade ago.Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, a 59-year-old Hollywood lawyer, struck his then-flame, a successful New York attorney, in the face “so hard she spun around” as the two waited in the valet line following an event at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012, three anonymous friends of the woman told the Daily Mail.Harris critics swiftly seized on the alleged abuse — purportedly prompted by Emhoff’s misplaced jealousy in assuming his beau was flirting with another man — by recalling years of the vice president claiming she “believes women” who are “survivors of sexual assault.”“Believe survivors,” one X user said Tuesday, sharing the Daily Mail’s troubling report.“Except Doug Emhoff’s first wife,” another user noted, referencing the second gentleman’s marriage that ended after he impregnated his child’s nanny.Credulous attitudes toward sex abuse allegations had reached a fever pitch among Democrats during the contentious confirmation hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.Harris immediately declared she believed Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that Kavanaugh forced himself on her at a high school party — and promoted spurious stories about the jurist previously raping a woman in the backseat of a car.Online critics on Tuesday resurfaced many of those comments the then-California Democratic senator made about Ford and other female victims.“Wore black today in support of all survivors of sexual assault or abuse.We won’t let them be silenced or ignored.

#BelieveSurvivors,” Harris posted on Twitter, now X, in September 2018, one week before Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote.RedState senior editor Brandon Morse reposted the comment, remarking that the sentiment had “aged like mi...