“I’m sorry for the way she got treated,” the Democratic presidential candidate said about the 1991 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing he oversaw during the Clarence Thomas confirmation.
By Colby Itkowitz Colby Itkowitz Congress, campaigns, health policy, Pennsylvania politics Email Bio Follow April 26 at 12:26 PM The hosts of ABC’s “The View” gave former vice president Joe Biden several opportunities Friday to personally apologize for his role in how Anita Hill was treated during the 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearing, but he never said, “I’m sorry” for how he treated her.
“I’m sorry for the way she got treated,” Biden said. “There were a lot of mistakes made across the board, and for those I apologize. I believed Dr. Hill from the beginning, and I said it, I said it.” Biden called Hill a few weeks ago to apologize, but it was a conversation that Hill later told the New York Times was not satisfying. Asked why it took him 28 years to make that call, he said he didn’t want to invade her space and that he had, over the years, publicly apologized to her for what she endured.
Then-Sen. Joe Biden speaks to members of the last panel scheduled to testify before the committee early on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 14, 1991, during nomination hearings of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. From left are; Anna Jenkins , Nancy Altman, Pamela Talkin, Patricia Johnson, and Linda Jackson. A similar dynamic played out on the show during a conversation regarding Biden’s penchant for getting overly physical with people, mostly women, during interactions.
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