Chris Cuomo blasts mainstream media for ignoring Doug Emhoff assault claims: 'If it were Trump it would be on every TV show'

Chris Cuomo has blasted mainstream media outlets for failing to follow-up DailyMail.com's exclusive about Doug Emhoff assaulting an ex-girlfriend. 

Emhoff, the Second Gentleman of the United States, was accused  of 'hitting' his then partner in the face at a event in 2012. 

But America's most powerful liberal outlets including The New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN have all failed to follow-up on it.

That has led to allegations of hypocrisy from critics including Cuomo, who believes the same outlets would be quick to seize on a similar story about a Trump family member.  

Speaking on his NewsNation show, the former CNN star anchor said: 'If the name were Trump, instead of Emhoff, it would be all over the news. 

'If it were Trump or anybody related to him, it would be on every tv show that is on right now.'

DailyMail.com's exclusive was followed-up by other large outlets including the New York Post and Newsweek.

But the refusal of the nation's most influential outlets to touch it has sparked fresh speculation that they're providing cover for Emhoff in a bit to help Kamala Harris win next month's presidential election.  

The alleged incident involving Emhoff and the woman happened while waiting in a valet line after a Cannes Film Festival event in France a decade ago. 

One of the woman's friends told DailyMail.com that Emhoff's ex called him immediately after the incident, sobbing in her cab, and described the alleged assault. 

DailyMail.com is not naming the woman, who is a successful New York attorney, but will refer to her by the pseudonym 'Jane'.

A second friend said Jane, who had been dating Emhoff for three months, also told her about the alleged violence at the time. 

Another said that Jane told her in 2014 that she had dated Emhoff and later recounted the story of his alleged abuse in 2018. 

The friends, who all asked not to be named for fear of retaliation by Emhoff, shared with DailyMail.com pictures of him and Jane together from 2012, and other documents and communications corroborating elements of the story.

One of Jane's friends, a top New York businessman, said he was at home getting ready for bed that night when he got an unexpected phone call from her.

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

'It was very clear what she was telling me. She said she was with a guy, her date, she was at the Cannes Film Festival, and he hit her. She was in the car with the guy at the time.

'I didn't know what to do, I didn't know whether to call the French police. I couldn't get a hold of her after calling back.'

He said he still had a 'vivid' memory of the troubling conversation from 12 years ago.

The new claims came after DailyMail.com revealed that Emhoff had cheated on his first wife and mother of his two kids around 2008. 

Emhoff is said to have impregnated his daughter's nanny who also worked as her grade school teacher. 

He later admitted the affair with the nanny and teacher, Najen Naylor, after DailyMail.com published the story last month.

All three of Jane's friends said she also told them about a disturbing alleged incident during her relationship with the Second Gentleman, in which Emhoff nonchalantly admitted to impregnating Naylor.

Emhoff told Jane that the nanny accused him of causing her to have a miscarriage, the friends claimed.

Emhoff was previously dubbed by Democrats as a 'wife guy' and a 'mensch', a Yiddish term for an honorable, kind man. 

He has also spoken out in media interviews about being an ally to women and against toxic masculinity.