'A still shot taken from a video — misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends — sent out in a snarky tweet — came to be the lasting image of that day,' Stephanie Carter wrote of the viral photo of herself and then-Vice President Joe Biden taken in 2015.
Former Vice President Joe Biden might currently be surrounded by controversy regarding his treatment of women, but one of the individuals cited as an example of unwanted touching or kissing has pushed back against calls of having her own #MeToo experience.
Ashton Carter makes remarks after he was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Defense as his wife Stephanie Vice President Joe Biden listen February 17, 2015 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Carter has become the 25th U.S. Secretary of Defense. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images "By the time then-Vice President Biden had arrived, he could sense I was uncharacteristically nervous — and quickly gave me a hug. After the swearing in, as Ash was giving remarks, he leaned in to tell me 'thank you for letting him do this' and kept his hands on my shoulders as a means of offering his support," Carter wrote.
Carter said she thought the whole situation would go away, but that belief was"wishful thinking" and prompted her to apologize to Biden and his wife, Jill, when she saw them next after the 2015 incident. According to Flores, Biden touched her shoulders, leaned in to smell her hair and then kissed her on the back of the head during a campaign event while she was running for Lieutenant Governor.
On Sunday, Biden released another statement, prior to Flores' appearing on CNN's State of the Union, which read, in part: “In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support, and comfort,” he said. “And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.
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