Joe Biden Refuses to Apologize for Making Women Feel Uncomfortable

Joe Biden Refuses to Apologize for Making Women Feel Uncomfortable

Today on The View, Joe Biden was asked if he would apologize for making women feel uncomfortable with his behavior over the years.

April 26, 2019
Joe Biden Refuses to Apologize for Making Women Feel Uncomfortable

Today on The View, Joe Biden was asked if he would apologize for making women feel uncomfortable with his behavior over the years. Biden, again, refused to apologize:

Read the Q&A:

Sunny Hostin: Let me ask you this. You’ve been criticized about your interactions with women. Seven women accused you of touching them without their permission. They didn’t say it crossed a line into sexual harassment, they did say you made them feel uncomfortable. many have been critical about how you handled it since the accusations. even speaker Nancy Pelosi said to say i’m sorry you were offended is not an apology. it’s i’m sorry I invaded your space. you said I get it. we’re in a different time now. we’re in the me too movement. are you sorry for what you did? are you repaired to apologize to those women?

Joe Biden: Here’s the deal, I have to be — everybody has to be much more away of the private space of men and women. it’s not just women, but primarily women. i’m more cognizant of that. I am so — for example, I thought in my head when I walked out here, I mean, do I — we’re friends. do I hug you?

Joy Behar: It’s tricky.

Joe Biden: I have to be aware of it. I have to be more cognizant. we all have to be. a woman or a man, especially a woman, has the right to say this is my space. i’ve never done anything in approaching a woman other than trying to bring — one of your staff was — a producer backstage said I remember you were the only guy to get up and walk into the audience and talk to people. I think it’s important we listen. I think it’s important elected officials listen and understand what people are going through and understand. I don’t think it’s old fashioned. everybody should be doing that. I have to be more careful and including whether I sit down next to somebody and I was not invited to sit down. that’s my responsibility. I have to be more aware. it’s totally legitimate for someone not to have to say, no, no, don’t get into my private space. it’s my job. it’s my job to read, no, no, this is space no one wants me to invade. anyway, I think it’s legitimate. I don’t think anyone’s ever said that I invaded their space in a way that was designed to do something other than making them feel uncomfortable, but not anything having to do with harassment.

Sunny Hostin: They have said that. they have also said they would like an apology.

Joe Biden: Look, i’m really sorry if what I did in talk to them and trying to console that they took it a different way. It’s my responsibility to make sure that I bend over backwards to try to understand how not to do that.
 
Joy Behar: Nancy Pelosi wants you to say I’m sorry that I invaded your space.

Joe Biden: So I invaded your space. I’m sorry this happened. I’m not sorry in the sense that I think I did anything that was intentionally designed to do anything wrong or be inappropriate. it was inappropriate that i didn’t understand that I took — I assumed — look, I was — anyway.

Ana Navarro: There’s also so many people that in a moment of need when they needed consolation or encouragement or a hug have been happy to get that from Joe Biden who turned his grief into that.