Joe Biden’s gaffe machine is in full force this week. Speaking at the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership forum, the vice president touted disgraced former senator Bob Packwood, who resigned in 1995 amid allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
Biden name-dropped the senator as he reminisced about past bipartisan efforts in the Senate.
“It was Republicans that were involved,” he said. “Guys like [Maryland Republican] Mac Mathias and Packwood, and so many others — it wasn’t Democrats alone.”
Packwood was accused of sexually harassing or assaulting as many as ten women, including staffers, in 1992. Three years later, the Senate Ethics Committee unanimously recommended Packwood be expelled from the Senate, but he resigned ahead of the expulsion.
Earlier this week while in Iowa, Biden made headlines for using the term “Shylocks” and then later referring to Asia as “the Orient.”
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