Doug Emhoff’s former colleagues label him ‘misogynistic’

Former law colleagues of Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, said he was “misogynistic” and “inappropriate” toward women, according to a new report from the Daily Mail.

Attorneys who worked with Mr. Emhoff at the Los Angeles law firm Venable from 2006 to 2017 say he screamed profanities at women, excluded women from cocktail hours at the office, denied work incentives to women who didn’t flirt with him and brought only young, attractive women from the firm to social events.

The second gentleman’s former colleagues spoke to the Daily Mail on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

The Washington Times reached out to the Harris campaign and her vice presidential office for comment.

One senior former staffer said Mr. Emhoff “bragged” about yelling at a female partner to “get the f—- out of my office” and later recounted to his senior colleagues that he had “put her in her place.”

The former staffer said she had to ask him something and his door was closed and confirmed with his secretary that he wasn’t on the phone.  

“So she slightly opened the door and stuck her head in.”

“He said, ’Get the f—- out of my office.’ What’s worse was he bragged about it to the management at Venable and they were aghast,” the former staffer said. “He’s an a——-e. He told them how he ’put her in her place.’ A misogynist, that’s who does that.”

Mr. Emhoff was also known for being “very flirty” at the office, says one female lawyer who previously worked at the firm recalling how if other women didn’t reciprocate in kind, she said, “then you were on his s—t list.”

Those who didn’t flirt with him, she said, faced consequences.

“You wouldn’t get to work on the cases you wanted to work on,” she said. “There were deadlines that, if you were one of his favorite people, wouldn’t apply. But if you weren’t, they would.”

Another former female staffer for Venable said Mr. Emhoff organized men-only cocktail hours in the office.

“He had for many years cocktail parties where only men were invited. In the office, on Friday evening,” she said.

“When my colleague brought that to the attention of Venable [around 2010], that stopped.”

The new allegations from the outlet fly in the face of the nice guy supporting his wife, an image the Harris campaign has portrayed, as mounting stories from the second gentleman’s past continue to build.

Last week, the Daily Mail reported an ex-girlfriend of Mr. Emhoff alleged that when the couple was at an event during France’s Cannes Film Festival over a decade ago, he slapped her because he believed she was flirting with a car valet.

A spokesman for Mr. Emhoff told the political news site Semafor the report was “untrue,” adding that “any suggestion that he would or ever hit a woman is false.”

In August, the vice president’s husband admitted he had an affair with the nanny of his children, who also was their grade school teacher, during his first marriage after the Daily Mail reported the story.  

He married Ms. Harris, his second wife, in 2014.