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WATCH: Biden Takes ‘Responsibility’ For Anita Hill Not Being ‘Treated Well’

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The first segment of former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign has escalated into an apology tour rather quickly. Now, having ducked the #MeToo allegations of inappropriate touching, he is now courting feminists by taking full responsibility for the alleged injustice that happened upon Anita Hill at the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America” alongside his wife, Jill, Joe Biden said that he believed Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas “from the very beginning” but ultimately failed to give her justice.

“I was chairman of the committee,” Biden said, as reported by HuffPost. “I believed her from the very beginning. But I was chairman. She did not get a fair hearing. She did not get treated well. That’s my responsibility. As the committee chairman, I take responsibility that she did not get treated well. I take responsibility for that.”

Back in 1991, on the eve of Clarence Thomas’ confirmation to the Supreme Court, Anita Hill alleged he had sexually harassed her several times while under his employment in the 1980s. Her credibility did not survive scrutiny when evidence revealed she followed him from job to job, along with phone records showing she had called him multiple times. Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Clarence Thomas denied all accusations against him and famously referred to them as a “high-tech lynching.” In the end, Clarence Thomas went on to become the second black man to serve on the Supreme Court. Feminists have criticized Joe Biden for not allowing other women to testify in Hill’s favor.

According to The New York Times, the former vice president called Anita Hill several weeks ago to apologize for her 1991 treatment. The apology apparently did not go over well.

“In a lengthy telephone interview on Wednesday, [Hill] declined to characterize Mr. Biden’s words to her as an apology and said she was not convinced that he has taken full responsibility for his conduct at the hearings — and for the harm he caused other victims of sexual harassment and gender violence,” the Times reports.

“I cannot be satisfied by simply saying, ‘I’m sorry for what happened to you,'” Hill told the Times. “I will be satisfied when I know there is real change and real accountability and real purpose.”

Though Hill said that Biden’s actions in 1991 should not disqualify him for the 2020 ticket, she demanded that he apologize to the other women who were not allowed to testify at the time.

“The focus on apology to me is one thing,” she said to The New York Times. “But he needs to give an apology to the other women and to the American public because we know now how deeply disappointed Americans around the country were about what they saw. And not just women. There are women and men now who have just really lost confidence in our government to respond to the problem of gender violence.”

In the same interview on “Good Morning America,” Biden cited his record of staunch feminism to fend off attacks on how Anita Hill got treated. When asked if he would pledge to have a female running mate, he said he will have to wait and see. “It would be a government that would represent everyone,” he said. “Who that would be if I were fortunate enough to win, I haven’t made that decision.”

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