SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly and Blaze Media’s Allie Beth Stuckey criticized MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Monday for not pressing Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff regarding the assault allegations against him.
In an early October report by the Daily Mail, three friends of Emhoff’s unnamed ex-girlfriend accused him of slapping her during a 2012 alcohol-fueled altercation. On The Megyn Kelly Show, the two political commentators called out Emhoff’s recent interview with Scarborough, where he claimed that the allegations were “all a distraction” after Scarborough remarked that former President Donald Trump was spreading “tabloid stories” about him.
“He doesn’t care about women at all. This is the same side that’s trying to tell us that’s why we have to have ‘reproductive freedom.’ That’s why trans women are women because ‘we the Democrats’ are the party of women,” Kelly remarked .
“Yeah and supposedly that’s one of their biggest gripes with Donald Trump is the allegations against him,” Stuckey responded. “Which, you know, there are a lot of accusations against Donald Trump and I’ve never heard an accusation quite like the one against Doug Emhoff. Which, as you said, is recent and has also been corroborated by eyewitness accounts.” Stuckey continued to echo Kelly, stating the accusations were “at least” worth one question from Scarborough, and criticized the host for downplaying the accusations.
“So I think that that is worth at least one question. Instead he even preempted the answer by saying, ‘Oh you know these tabloid reports and, you know, very salacious things that Donald Trump is saying.’ Going ahead and getting him off the hook by saying, ‘I know these accusations are false I’m not even going to spell them out,” Stuckey continued. “I won’t even give him the opportunity to defend himself. I’m just going to say that they’re false.’ That is evil, that is stupid, the arrogance — the ends justify the means completely for these people. They have no right to call themselves journalists.”
A second wave of allegations against Emhoff was reported by the Daily Mail on October 8, with former colleagues from the law firm he managed claiming to the outlet that the Second Gentleman was allegedly routinely “inappropriate” and “misogynistic,” the Daily Caller noted. Kelly continued to criticize Scarborough for not asking “one question,” asserting that if he “cared about women,” he would have.
“It’s not hard — just ask one question, just ask one. Put your partisan leanings aside for just 60 seconds to do your duty,” Kelly said. “And if you did actually care about women, Ali Beth, if you did actually care about women, like I know you do and like I know I do, you would do it! You would find the strength to do it no matter how hard your partisan leanings. Only a hack would fail and that’s what you are Joe Scarborough. Shame on you!”
Emhoff acknowledged an August report from the Daily Mail regarding his affair with his then-young daughter’s nanny during his marriage to his first wife, Kerstin, after the information was made public by the outlet. At the time, the nanny was also employed at the Los Angeles private school that his daughter attended, and the affair allegedly resulted in a pregnancy.
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