“I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie,” Joe Biden said to laughs.
Joe Biden, in his first public comments since facing allegations of inappropriate physical contact, opened a speech Friday morning by cracking a joke about consent.
A few moments later, Biden invited a group of kids on stage, shaking their hands as they came up — but then put his arm around one child’s shoulder. Pressed on whether that meant there should be a direct apology, he said,"I'm sorry I didn't understand more. I'm not sorry for any of my intentions, I'm not sorry for anything that I have ever done. I've never been disrespectful intentionally, to a man or a woman."Biden was at the IBEW conference to talk about unions and labor as his possible presidential campaign gears up.
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