Mika Brzezinski defends Joe Biden: He is ‘extremely flirtatious in a completely safe way’
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzenzski stood up for Joe Biden on Monday after former Nevada state assemblywoman Lucy Flores alleged that the former vice president kissed the back of her head in 2014 and made her feel “uneasy, gross, and confused.”
“There’s a lot of things I know about Joe Biden, I’ve known him for a long time,” Brzezinski began. “He is extremely affectionate, extremely flirtatious in a completely safe way. I am sure that somebody can misconstrue something he’s done. But as much as I can know what’s anyone’s heart, I don’t think that there’s a bad intent on his part at all.”
As Lucy Flores explained in an essay for The Cut, she was the 35-year-old Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in Nevada when the alleged incident occurred side stage at a campaign rally. Brzezinski said that she read Flores’ account and agreed that it sounded like something Biden would do, but “never thought he meant anything from it except to be nice.” And her Morning Joe co-host, Joe Scarborough, also weighed in.
“We’ve had clips of him and late-night comics have had clips of him,” he said. “He’s always been very expressive, and he’s always been very expressive in public. It’s not like he’s hiding anything.”
Biden issued a statement in response to Flores’ allegation on Sunday.
“In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort,” the statement read. “And not once – never – did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.”
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Brzezinski’s comments also come after Stephanie Carter, the wife of former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, wrote on Medium that a viral image of her and Biden in 2015 showing a similar circumstance, was taken from a video and is misleading and not a #MeToo moment.
“Are we really going to do this?” Brzezinski wondered. “And Democrats, you have to ask yourself: ‘What exactly is the line, the #MeToo line, you want to draw?’ Because you will live and die by that line. It’s an important line, it’s very important. Don’t mock it.”
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