Second gentleman Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife has as soon as once more publicly shared her assist for Vice President Kamala Harris—and criticized Melania Trump within the course of.
Melania Trump may very well be returning to the White Home as her husband, former President Donald Trump, goals to make a historic comeback in November, this time taking up Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee who emerged swiftly after President Joe Biden introduced his exit from the race. Harris is anticipated to formally settle for the Democratic nomination in a speech on August 22, after securing sufficient delegates to turn into the occasion’s nominee.
Kerstin Emhoff, mom to son Cole and daughter Ella with Doug earlier than their divorce, has often defended Harris amid assaults from Republicans within the lead-up to the election. “For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella had been youngsters, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I. She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protecting, and at all times current. I really like our blended household and am grateful to have her in it,” she beforehand stated.
Now, Kerstin Emhoff has introduced Melania Trump into the dialog, responding to a put up from somebody who stated she was extra supportive than the previous first girl.
Melania Trump on November 24, 2020, in Washington, D.C., and (inset) Kerstin Emhoff on September 27, 2016, in New York Metropolis. Emhoff has responded to a put up evaluating her to the previous first girl.
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Newsweek contacted Melania Trump for remark through The Workplace of Donald J. Trump web site on Wednesday outdoors of regular enterprise hours.
Kerstin Emhoff retweeted a put up with 2.6 million views on X (previously Twitter) that reads: “Kamala’s husband’s ex-wife is supporting her extra enthusiastically than Trump’s present spouse is supporting him.” Alongside the caption was a photograph Emhoff had shared of herself on the Democratic Nationwide Conference on Monday.
She added: “Rattling proper [oncoming fist emoji].”
On the time of writing, her put up had been seen 1.1 million occasions.
The photograph that Kerstin Emhoff shared of herself on the DNC has additionally gone viral.
“Who’s right here? [starry-eyed emoji] So excited for this week! [American flag emoji]” she captioned the picture, which had been seen 2.4 million occasions on the time of writing.
Since her husband’s tenure as president ended on January 20, 2021, Melania Trump has largely stored a low profile. She has missed a number of essential occasions, together with his Tremendous Tuesday main election victory occasion and was absent from the courtroom amid his authorized instances, equivalent to his hush cash trial in New York. Nevertheless, she did attend the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC).
That is in stark distinction to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential run, when she gave various speeches all year long.
Kerstin and Doug Emhoff had been married from 1992 to 2008 earlier than he wed Harris in 2014. Kerstin Emhoff is the founder and CEO of manufacturing firm Prettybird, and by all accounts maintains relationship along with her ex-husband.
In her memoir, The Truths We Maintain, Harris wrote: “I had—and have—great admiration and respect for Kerstin. I may inform from the best way Doug talked about his children that she was a terrific mom—and in later months, as Kerstin and I acquired to know one another, we actually hit it off ourselves and have become pals. (We generally joke that our fashionable household is sort of a bit of too useful).”
Harris’ stepchildren have been recognized to confer with their stepmother as “Momala.”
“The factor about blended households,” Harris informed CNN in 2020, “if everybody approaches it in the best way that there is loads of like to share, then it really works.”