IN INTERVIEW DeVOS ‘Frankly Disgusted’ By ‘Total Hypocrite’ Joe Biden
Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said she’s “frankly disgusted” by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s political shift when it comes to women who claim to have been the victims of sexual misconduct. In a recent interview, DeVos said she thought Biden was a “total hypocrite” for demanding more due process in vetting accusations than he wants to provide to others. DeVos recently announced new Title IX rule changes regarding sexual harassment in schools. It came as Biden was defending himself from an accusation by Tara Reade, who worked in Biden’s Senate office in the 1990s.
Biden has denied the accusation, though multiple people have corroborated that Reade told them her story. In response to the new rule, Biden in a statement called it an attempt to “shame and silence” sexual abuse survivors and promised a “quick end” to it should he be elected. “Reading the statement, I thought he could not have possibly have written that himself because he can’t possibly believe what he actually released given where he was in that moment in time,” DeVos said.
“A total hypocrite. Right?” She said that Biden, given the claim from Reade, should hope that others receive the same presumption of innocence that he was asking for. “I mean, he was asking for what the rule has actually guaranteed for everyone, the presumption of innocence, at a time when he wanted something totally different for a 19- or 20-year-old college student,” DeVos said. “So it’s a total hypocritical position for him to take, and I was frankly disgusted.”
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