Trump rips media silence on Doug Emhoff abuse claim, says itd be greatest story in the last five years if he was accused

Former President Donald Trump blasted most media outlets Tuesday for failing to cover reports that second gentleman Doug Emhoff physically abused a girlfriend in 2012, with the Republican nominee saying that if he’d been accused, it would have been “the greatest story in the last five years.”Trump, 78, was asked during an interview with Daily Wire founder and podcaster Ben Shapiro about the lack of attention to Emhoff “forcefully slapping” a former flame following an event at the Cannes Film Festival in France.“[Emhoff] was being interviewed on MSDNC, which is one of the worst, you know, really a terrible, terrible group of people,” Trump bemoaned, using his preferred nickname for MSNBC.“And it was like a love fest.

Never asked him about that.Never asked him about the other one.”“[They] were saying he’s like a symbol for all men, all over the world,” the 45th president added.

“If that were me, it would be the greatest story in the last five years.”Trump was apparently referring to an appearance by Emhoff on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” which took place days before the Daily Mail broke the story of the abuse claim.Trump was likely suggesting that “the other” Emhoff saga was the implosion of his first marriage after he impregnated his child’s nanny.Emhoff did not deny that report, telling CNN in a statement that he and his first wife “went through some tough times on account of my actions.”Psaki, who served as White House press secretary from 2021 to 2022, buttered Emhoff up and said he had “reshaped the perception of masculinity.”But according to three sources cited by the Daily Mail, Emhoff, 59, smacked his then-girlfriend in the face with such force that she was spun around while waiting in the valet line after the Cannes event.Two of those sources were informed of the late-night, booze-fueled assault contemporaneously — and another heard from the woman involved in 2014.A spokesperson for Emhoff told Semafor...