Kamala Harris and her media lackeys parade her 'wife guy', beta hubby Doug Emhoff as a model feminist. So, MAUREEN CALLAHAN rages, how can they stay so shamefully silent now that he's accused of hitting his ex?

Doug Emhoff, our so-called Second Gentleman, is anything but.

The bombshell allegation that Kamala Harris's husband once slapped a former girlfriend in the face so hard that she spun around — in public view outside an A-list gala in France — has been met with utter silence from the Harris campaign.

Why? How can the campaign of 'good character' and 'joy' — for a candidate who reminds us constantly that, as a prosecutor, she fiercely protected victims — retreat in the face of such a disgusting claim?

Perhaps they're hoping that if they ignore this their handmaidens in the national media will continue to follow suit.

After all, MSNBC's Jen Psaki, President Biden's former press secretary, just conducted a sit-down with Emhoff that lacked any resemblance to actual journalism.

'Your role,' Psaki gushed in an interview that aired Sunday, 'has reshaped the perception of masculinity.'

That's one way to put it.

Psaki already knew — as with the Mail also revealed in August – that Emhoff had allegedly impregnated his nanny, who was also his daughter Ella's schoolteacher, while married to his first wife. But she has zero questions about his integrity? About the ways he treats women?

'I've always been like this,' Emhoff told Psaki, creepy grin on his ruddy face. 'To me, it's the right thing to do, support women.'

Big cheer, Doug.

Seriously, what kind of man brags about this stuff? Not one who truly likes and supports women, I promise you that.

Had Psaki and the rest of the left-leaning media actually investigated this story, they might have learned that the nanny has a much more disturbing claim about Emhoff and what happened to her baby — because loose-lipped Doug reportedly told the woman he allegedly hit all about that.

Yes, Doug allegedly described how he paid the nanny $80,000 to go away, made her sign an NDA and dismissed her claims about how her reported miscarriage came about.

But hey — strength through joy, people!

This guy has been successfully packaged by the Harris camp, with a heavy assist from the media, as everything he's not: A 'wife guy' — whatever that means — an ally to women and a crusader against toxic masculinity, so proud of Kamala that he gave up his job to support her when she became Vice President.

Not because, as an attorney, he represented an arms dealer selling to Afghanistan, Big Pharma, and a nightclub impresario accused of sexual harassment and sexual battery. You know, what a 'wife guy' does — shed himself of liabilities so as not to harm his spouse's political future.

If only inconvenient women were as easy to contain.

Emhoff's most recent accuser, who the Mail is calling by the pseudonym 'Jane', dated him in 2012. She reportedly recounted how he came in hot, 'love-bombed' her and introduced her to his son Cole, then a teenager, on their first date.

Jane is said to have found the whole thing, including Doug bumming a cigarette from Cole, 'weird'.

She also reportedly got the impression that Emhoff's wife 'had the upper hand' in their divorce and couldn't figure out why.

Then, two months after that first date, during a heady trip to a star-studded Cannes charity gala on May 24, Emhoff allegedly slapped Jane.

One of Jane's friends, an elite New York City businessman, says he got a phone call from her moments later.

'It was hard to hear her, because she was sobbing,' this friend told the Mail. 'She told me she was with a guy and he hit her.'

Jane allegedly said she had offered the valet money to skip the long line outside the gala and had put her hand on his shoulder.

Emhoff seemingly saw Jane's gesture as 'flirting' — and so, as a feminist male does, he allegedly slapped her in the face, hard.

'My impression is that he had a lot to drink,' Jane's businessman friend said. 'She was sobbing, but she wasn't slurring her words. She told me she broke up with him that night'.

Jane also contemporaneously told another friend, a female lawyer based in New York, who described Emhoff's alleged attack as sudden, unexpected.

'You would have thought this was a fairytale trip,' this source said.

Well, it seems we're finally meeting the real Doug Emhoff – and he's no hero to women.

Jane relayed her horror to another female confidante, a top corporate executive, in 2018. This woman also corroborated Jane's story to the Mail, including the frightening coda: Jane scrambled into a cab to get away from Emhoff, but he allegedly forced his way in — prompting her to call the New York City businessman as protection.

Doug Emhoff, feminist. What a lie.

Emhoff, team Harris has long had us believe, is a cuddly, sanitized, non-threatening beta.

It's quite likely, in my estimation, that this has been a deliberate, cynical overcorrection – with Emhoff purposely establishing himself as such a nice, good guy, with his clunky tales about being so eager to land the great Kamala, to woo her and marry her and just hang in the background, so that when, not if, allegations emerged, they'd be harder to believe.

It's sinister.

This is the man meant to stand in stark contrast to Trump, who certainly has his own issues with women.

But only one of these men has been forensically investigated by the national media. Only one of these men represents a ticket that, as his wife so often says, believes in the importance of 'good values', of being 'honest', of 'not going back' to a time when the plight of women was routinely ignored.

Such as the plight of Emhoff's nanny, Najen Naylor.

Emhoff allegedly told Jane — who reportedly recounted this to her same friends —that in Naylor's telling, she believed that Emhoff had been so 'aggressive with her, shouting or whatever', that she miscarried. Emhoff reportedly disputed Naylor's claim.

A police report dated June 28, 2009, which lines up with the alleged pregnancy, shows that the LAPD was called to the home Naylor was living at 8.14 pm.

The callout was designated 'priority level three' — 'life-threatening emergency, lights and sirens on'.

The LAPD would not release any information about this emergency call: What happened, who was involved, or the outcome.

Emhoff has some questions to answer, and so does Kamala Harris. The Mail asked her campaign for comment two days ago and has heard nothing.

How can Harris, this self-designated champion of women – who loves to tell the story of saving her abused best friend, and who self-righteously treated the then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as guilty in his Senate hearing despite zero credible evidence against him — stay silent?

How long until Harris finally has a substantive, challenging one-on-one interview? Will the New York Times or CNN treat these women as seriously as Trump's accusers? Will they accept Jane's story as readily as they accepted those ancient recollections of Kavanaugh-accuser Christine Blasey Ford or E. Jean Carroll? Or will they dismiss these as eagerly as they did Tara Reade's sexual abuse accusations against Joe Biden?

There is precedent here. Harris's forebear, Hillary Clinton, defended Bill when he was accused of multiple sexual assaults — still does, in fact — and it has forever hurt her credibility with female voters.

The preferred rallying cry of the left is, 'Believe all women'. Will they have the guts to do so now?