“I’m sorry she was treated the way she was treated,” Joe Biden said of Anita Hill during an interview on “The View” on Friday.
In his first television interview since announcing his 2020 candidacy, former Vice President Joe Biden struggled to answer questions about Anita Hill and the accusations made by several women of inappropriate touching.
Biden has been under fire for months over his handling of Hill’s 1991 testimony against Clarence Thomas, who was in the process of being confirmed by the Senate to become a justice of the Supreme Court. Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was responsible for overseeing the confirmation hearing.
Biden also called Hill earlier this month to express his “regret for what she endured” when she testified before the Senate. But Hill told The New York Times she didn’t consider Biden's words an apology, and said that he should properly address sexual harassment and violence toward women. — The View April 26, 2019 In addition to the Hill controversy, Biden has been heavily scrutinized after several women came forward to accuse him of inappropriate touching. At least a half a dozen women have this year alleged Biden had touched them in ways that were unwelcome.
When it appeared Biden stopped short of a full-on apology for his own actions, co-host Joy Behar pushed back, saying, “[House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi wants you to say, ‘I’m sorry I invaded your space.’”
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