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Montel Williams breaks silence on rumors of explosive sex tape with Vice President Kamala Harris, months after a Trump supporter suggested the vice president was a “side piece”
Montel Williams, 68, is looking out trolls, claiming that damaging material about his former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will soon appear on the Internet.
Vice President Harris, 60, is in a tight race for the White House against her Republican opponent and former President Donald Trump, with the election on Tuesday, November 5 lower than a week away.
In the middle of rallies and debates, Donald Trump supporter Matt Wallace, who has 2.2 million followers on X, spread a baseless rumor that a sex tape involving Williams and Harris would upend the 2024 election.
“Wow, I was just informed by a friend of mine who is the CEO of a major tech company that a sex tape featuring Kamala Harris and Montel Williams is allegedly being sold,” Wallace wrote on October 28.
The YouTuber’s tweet has garnered over 6.9 million views on the social media platform. As these allegations spread across X, Williams addressed the speculation in an October 30 tweet.
“Wow, I heard a blogger I’ve never heard of has millions of views and claims someone is ‘buying’ my sex tape and it’s going to ‘break the internet,'” Williams wrote on Twitter.
The former TV talk show host continued: “Let’s break the internet” (with) the truth – there isn’t a tape. @KamalaHQ’s explosive growth has clearly concerned some people.”
Social media users began criticizing Wallace following Williams’ denial. Many people felt offended that an apparent lie was used to potentially hurt Harris during the campaign days before she could make history as the first female president of the United States
“I knew he was lying when he said he had a friend,” one person said he tweeted. Another X user he stated“They are desperate. We knew it was fake news. Who has a VHS player these days?!?”
A 3rd person commented on Trump’s various statements criminal charges AND civil trials writing, “These vile bastards will stop at nothing to reinstate a criminal sexual fraudster.”
Others suggested that Williams should sue Wallace for defamation of character, writing“This Matt guy better get ready to sue.”
X, the platform owned by Elon Musk, posted a community note to Wallace’s original tweet about the alleged sex tape, confirming that Williams had denied the allegations.
Wallace also posted one other tweet with this information To read“Montel Williams just published a post stating that the allegations are false and that no sex tape of them exists.”
Despite his explanation, Wallace’s try to smear Harris contributed to a salacious, long-standing narrative pushed by far-right influencers that the vice president used sexual favors to climb the political ladder.
For example, a 2001 clip of Harris and Williams went viral in 2019, as Harris was running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Harris, Williams and his daughter Ashley Williams attended the eighth annual Race to Erase MS event together in Los Angeles.
Conservatives accused Harris of being a “fringe element” of Williams, assuming Ashley was Montel’s wife. In response, the retired soldier admitted that he once dated a former U.S. senator from California.
“(Kamala Harris) and I dated briefly about 20 years ago when we were both single. So what? I have great respect for Senator Harris. I wonder if she would write the same stories about her dating history if she were a male candidate?” Montel published in August 2019
There are also rumors that Harris secured her position as San Francisco’s elected district attorney in 2003 because of an affair with Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004.
Like Williams, Willie Brown admitted to dating Kamala Harris in a 2019 column for “Chronicle of San Francisco”. Brown and Harris were single once they dated in the Nineteen Nineties after which split in 1995.
In recent weeks, controversial wrestler Hulk Hogan has made several offensive remarks about Harris, including threatening to body slam her. Most recently, during a speech at a Trump rally on October 27, he suggested that Harris slept her solution to success.
“When I hear Kamala’s voice, it sounds like a Hollywood script with a really, really (which sounds terrifying) bad actress,” Hogan told the audience at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Many viewers inferred that the WWE Hall of Famer was referring to Hailey “Hawk Tuah Girl” Welch, the woman who became an online sensation after giving oral sex advice in an interview.
Despite unverified assumptions about her past, Harris is currently married to mental property lawyer Doug Emhoff. They married on August 22, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California. They met on a blind date in 2013.
They don’t have any children together. However, Emhoff has two children – Cole, 30, and Ella, 25 == from his first marriage to film producer Kerstin Mackin, which led to 2008.