'I don't mean to malign Joe, but Joe told me he didn't believe her,' former Senator Orrin Hatch said.
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that Democratic presidential frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden told him that he did not believe Anita Hill when she came forward and testified before the Senate that then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. "Biden told me personally that he didn't believe her. He said I don't know why she did this," Hatch, who represented Utah,, which will air on Wednesday."I don't mean to malign Joe, but Joe told me he didn't believe her, and there were some others that told me that too."
Biden, who previously served as a Senator for Delaware, chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time of the Anita Hill hearing back in 1991. Hill came forward with her allegations against Thomas, and eventually testified ahead of the Senate's vote to confirm the conservative justice to a lifetime appointment on the nation's top court. Biden has faced significant criticism for his handling of the hearings, with that backlash resurfacing recently due to his current presidential bid.
"I cannot be satisfied by simply saying, 'I'm sorry for what happened to you,'" Hill, who is now a professor at Brandeis University, told
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