Former vice president Joe Biden, left, is greeted by Lonnie Stephenson, international president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, while arriving to speak during a conference Friday in Washington. Biden later joked about asking for permission to hug people during his first appearance since the emergence of complaints from women about how he touched them. At least six other women later came forward with similar accounts, as others have written about their own more positive experiences with Biden. “It’s clear @JoeBiden hasn’t reflected at all on how his inappropriate and unsolicited touching made women feel uncomfortable,” she wrote. “Biden’s consent joke is a clear indication Biden doesn’t get it and doesn’t take the voice of the women who have come forward seriously,” she told The Washington Post.

Source: Washington Post April 05, 2019 16:17 UTC