Woman in shoulder-hug photo defends Biden after 'misleading' image goes viral
Stephanie Carter, the wife of former Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter, is coming to Joe Biden’s defense amid claims the former vice president touched and kissed a woman inappropriately at a political event in 2014. Carter says a viral photo showing Biden touching her the following year was taken out of context.
Flores said Sunday she “felt invaded” and described the episode as “a violation of my personal space” but that she does not consider it a sexual assault or harassment, or that Biden had “a bad intention.” Carter said that on the day of her husband’s swearing-in, she slipped on ice and fell outside the Pentagon. Arriving at the White House, she was “self-conscious and tentative” about the fall when a reporter asked her if she was doing all right. Biden “could sense I was uncharacteristically nervous,” Carter wrote, “and quickly gave me a hug.”
In an essay published by New York magazine on Friday, Flores said that as she was waiting to take the stage at a political rally in Las Vegas in 2014, she “felt two hands on my shoulders.”
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