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04th Apr 2019

WATCH: Joe Biden responds to claims he has made women feel “uncomfortable”

Rudi Kinsella

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He has vowed to be “more mindful” of personal space.

Joe Biden has responded to claims he has made women uncomfortable in the past, following a series of incidents being brought to light.

A number of videos were posted on Twitter that appeared to show Biden acting inappropriately around women, some of whom were teenagers.

He has now responded to the claims in a video on his Twitter page, where he claimed that “social norms are changing”.

He said: “I hear what they’re saying. I understand. And I will be much more mindful. That’s my responsibility.”

Biden was most recently criticised by American politician Lucy Flores for an experience they shared, in which the former American Vice-President made her feel extremely uneasy.

“I felt him get closer to me from behind,” she said.

“He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, ‘I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?’

“He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused. There is a Spanish saying, “tragame tierra,” it means, ‘earth, swallow me whole.'”

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