The woman, Amy Lappos, told the Hartford Courant that Biden pulled her close and rubbed noses with her at a 2009 fundraiser in Connecticut. “I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth,” she said.
By Felicia Sonmez and Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow Elise Viebeck Elise Viebeck Enterprise and investigations reporter focused on politics Email Bio Follow April 1 at 5:44 PM A former congressional aide to Rep. Jim Himes says former vice president Joe Biden touched her inappropriately at a 2009 fundraiser, the second woman to make allegations against Biden in the past week.
The “Alice Paul” account includes photos of Lappos and has pictures in common with Lappos’s personal Facebook account. It also comes as Biden is under increasing pressure from women’s rights groups, prominent African American leaders and other supporters of Anita Hill to acknowledge his responsibility for his handling of the 1991 confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the hearing took place; he recently sparked a backlash when he said he regretted that he “couldn’t come up with a way to get [Hill] the kind of hearing she deserved.
According to Vigdor’s 2009 piece, Biden spoke for about 19 minutes on the Moelis home’s rear terrace to an audience of 150 Connecticut Democrats, including Richard Blumenthal and Dannel Malloy. Blumenthal, now the state’s senior senator, was then the state’s attorney general; Malloy, who served as governor from 2011 to 2019, was then the mayor of Stamford.
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