Doug Emhoff is a lawyer, so it matters when he is asked about the allegation in the Daily Mail that he viciously slapped a girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 by calling it a “distraction” and not denying it.
In the last hour of Morning Joe on Friday, they played a preview of a patty-cake interview Joe Scarborough gave to Emhoff in Georgia, and it started off with Emhoff talking like a tough guy about his his wife kicked Trump’s ass in their debate.
SCARBOROUGH: You talked about the debate. Why do you think Donald Trump won’t debate her again?
EMHOFF: Well, you saw the first debate, didn’t you?
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, yeah.
EMHOFF: Yeah. That’s why. He got his ass kicked. And so he’s afraid that that’s going to happen again. Rather he’s spreading this fog, this fog of misinformation and disinformation and gaslighting rather than…
