September 23, 2022 3:55pm EDT
Conservatives call Biden ‘plain creepy’ for comment about his friendship with 12-year-old girl when he was 30
'She was 12 and I was 30,' Biden told attendees at a Friday rally for the NEA teachers' union
By Gabriel Hays | Fox News
Conservatives on social media were disturbed and confused following President Joe Biden's cryptic remark about a friendship he had with a 12-year-old girl when he was 30.
During a speech to the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers’ union, and other Democrats on Friday, Biden momentarily interrupted his remarks on climate change to address a woman in the crowd he apparently knew long ago.
Biden said, "And everybody found out, there’s not a lot of total climate deniers anymore after they’ve seen what happened this year. But guess what, we got a lot to do." He then pointed into the crowd, and in a low voice said, "You gotta say hi to me."
The crowd laughed and Biden said, "We go back a long way. She was 12 and I was 30, but anyway. This woman helped me get an awful lot done. Anyway."
The crowd laughed again, though not everyone who heard Biden’s off-the-cuff remark found it so endearing.
Conservatives on Twitter found it disturbing.
"As dementia progresses, patients lose more of their filter and tend to blurt out the truth. Biden: ‘She was 12, I was 30.’" wrote conservative podcast host Monica Crowley.
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