An exclusive story in Saturday's Daily Mail revealed that Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, had an affair with a woman who worked both as a teacher at his kids' school and as a nanny for the family during his first marriage, and that the affair resulted in a pregnancy. The marriage ended when Emhoff's first wife, Kersten, discovered the affair in May 2009. From the Daily Mail:
Naylor now lives in Hampton Bays, on New York's Long Island, and works for Audible. According to the Daily Mail report, Naylor lost her job at The Willows, the private school in Culver City attended by Cole and Ella Emhoff:
It's unclear whether Naylor left her school job voluntarily, or was pushed out due to the scandal, which wasn't a secret among other parents at The Willows:
While the sources listed by Daily Mail say that Naylor did not keep the baby, it wasn't clear whether they meant that Naylor had an abortion or that the baby was born and then given up for adoption. Reporters with Daily Mail searched Los Angeles birth records for 2008 and 2009 and were unable to find a record for a Brook Naylor in those years, or any child born in that time frame with the last name Emhoff. It's not known whether the baby would have been born in Los Angeles County or elsewhere if Naylor carried to term. While Emhoff's office didn't return requests for comment from Daily Mail, after the story was published a statement was sent to CNN seeming to admit to the affair, but without reference to the pregnancy or what happened to the child.
Likewise, Kersten Emhoff issued a statement ignoring
It's odd that Harris and Emhoff didn't simply ignore the story and have surrogates dismiss it as something from a gossip rag, or blame it on "MAGA crazies." Usually that only happens when there is something more to a story, and they don't want that to get out. By tacitly admitting the affair yet being silent about the child it produced, are they hoping the story is labeled as a terrible invasion of privacy and the politics of personal destruction? Already Harris' surrogates are asking why it matters that Harris' husband had an affair during a marriage before he met her and simply ignoring the part about the resulting pregnancy, and also ignoring the fact that as one of Naylor's employers Emhoff was in a position of power over her and that the affair could absolutely be termed sexual harassment, and that Naylor lost her other job as a result of the affair - and possibly due to the influence of Doug and/or Kersten Emhoff. Those are the questions that need to be asked of Team Kamala. |
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