MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asked Emhoff to respond to several “tabloid stories about your personal life,” in apparent reference to accusations from Daily Mail sources that he slapped his former flame and hiring a “trophy secretary” at his high-powered Los Angeles law firm.
“We don’t have time to be pissed off,” Emhoff said in response. “We don’t have time to focus on it. It’s all a distraction. It’s designed to try to get us off our game.”
Scarborough said former President Donald Trump was needlessly amplifying the stories, while making “incredibly crude and lewd” suggestions about Vice President Kamala Harris’ past.