Unfortunately for Vice President Kamala Harris, the various scandals involving her husband, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, are not going away. 

The latest development, according to Fox News, is that Emhoff chose not to deny reports that he slapped one of his former girlfriends.

Some have suggested that the reason that Emhoff did not deny the reports is because the reports are actually true.

First, we'll look at the reports, then we will look at Emhoff's latest comments on the situation.

The allegation

The Daily Mail, earlier this month, reported that Emhoff had been accused of "forcefully" slapping his ex-girlfriend.

Per the outlet:

Vice President Kamala Harris's husband assaulted his ex-girlfriend, three friends have told Dailymail.com. The Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, 59, allegedly struck the woman in the face so hard she spun around, while waiting in a valet line late at night after a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival event in France.

The "three friends" chose not to reveal their identities, according to the outlet, due to a "fear of retaliation by Emhoff."

This allegation came after a previous report revealed that Emhoff cheated on the mother of his two children with his daughter's nanny. Emhoff allegedly got the nanny pregnant.

Suffice it to say that this has been an extremely bad situation for Harris, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, and Emhoff has not done much to help the situation.

"A distraction"?

On Friday, Emhoff appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where he address the slapping allegation. His response was to suggest that the allegation was merely "a distraction" from Harris's presidential campaign.

He said:

We don’t have time to be pissed off. We don't have time to focus on it. It's designed to try to get us off our game. We understand the stakes. We understand the responsibility. We understand what is necessary. Our very country. Our future.

One would think that whether or not Emhoff - the husband of the Democrats' presidential nominee - used violence against a former lover is relevant information for voters. But, according to Emhoff, it is not.

You will likely have noticed that Emhoff, in his response, did not deny the slapping allegation. He did, however, previously deny it through a spokesperson, who said, "Any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false."

This is just about the weakest way that one can deny such an allegation. It is now up to each one of us to decide whether or not the witnesses are telling the truth or Emhoff.