{"id":1611223,"date":"2022-08-17T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611223"},"modified":"2022-08-17T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:17:45","slug":"betsy-devos-says-under-proposed-legal-definitions-biden-allegedly-sexually-harassed-her-in-a-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/betsy-devos-says-under-proposed-legal-definitions-biden-allegedly-sexually-harassed-her-in-a-wheelchair\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy DeVos Says Under Proposed Legal Definitions, Biden Allegedly Sexually Harassed Her In A Wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbetsy-devos-says-under-proposed-legal-definitions-biden-allegedly-sexually-harassed-her-in-a-wheelchair%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos says President Joe Biden\u2019s uncomfortable physical treatment of her several years ago when she was in a wheelchair amounted to the proposed legal definition of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>DeVos discussed Biden\u2019s new Title IX changes during an interview with Megyn Kelly, sharing the \u201cone encounter\u201d she allegedly had with Biden that took place before he decided to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in a wheelchair,\u201d she said. \u201cI was back stage after speaking, he came up to me, I had never met him before in my life, he came up to me, put his hands on my shoulders, and his forehead on my forehead for several seconds, and had conversation with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former secretary of education said that if Biden had behaved in that manner as a student on a college campus, \u201cunder his proposed rule, I would have a Title IX sexual harassment allegation to levy against him because of his conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard from many students who had lesser encounters or lesser situations than what I had to encounter with him, and yet he wants this for college students, but will not acknowledge and agree to probes into allegations of much more egregious conduct on his part against other women,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Her remark appears to refer to Biden accuser Tara Reade, who said that Biden kissed her, touched her, and penetrated her with his fingers without her consent when she worked for him as a senate staffer in the 1990s. Biden has repeatedly denied Reade\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just using it as an example to say, this administration is so bent on trying to politicize and weaponize a law that was meant to protect women and to give them access to education, not to weaponize it to harm others,\u201d continued DeVos. \u201cThis is a really really bad direction that they are taking with their proposed Title IX rule and I hope people will speak up about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly called Biden\u2019s alleged behavior \u201cdisgusting\u201d and joked, \u201cI don\u2019t even touch foreheads with my husband,\u201d calling the incident an example of \u201cinappropriate boundary crossing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked if I had any hardware as a result of my injury and I had broken my pelvis,\u201d DeVos further explained. \u201cThen he told me that he had 9 screws in his shoulder but everybody thought they were in his head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeVos added that Biden was \u201cdoing this\u201d while allegedly holding her shoulders with his forehead allegedly pressed to her own, adding that she had \u201cnowhere to go to or escape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you were basically harassed, the legal definition of sexual harassment, by Joe Biden while in a wheelchair,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos says President Joe Biden\u2019s uncomfortable physical treatment of her several years ago when she was in a wheelchair amounted to the proposed legal definition of sexual harassment. 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