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By the time then-Vice President Biden had arrived, he could sense I was uncharacteristically nervous- and quickly gave me a hug. After the swearing in, as Ash was giving remarks, he leaned in to tell me “thank you for letting him do this” and kept his hands on my shoulders as a means of offering his support. But a still shot taken from a video — misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends — sent out in a snarky tweet — came to be the lasting image of that day.
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She also noted that in the next days the rumor mill didn’t stop, even when her husband told the press that they were friends with the Bidens.
“Ash tried to joke that it was the only way people knew that he had been sworn in,” Carter wrote. “At his first available opportunity, he told the press that we had been friends with the Bidens for years and it wasn’t at all what people thought. But that didn’t stop people I had not heard from since high school sending me messages — usually with some joke or demanding to know what he had said to me.”
Carter concluded by saying she thought if she didn’t dignify the whole thing with a response, it might go away.
It did not. Instead, due to the Lucy Flores story, the image — and accusations — have been circulating once again.
“I thought it would all blow over if I didn’t dignify it with a response,” she said. “But clearly that was wishful thinking.”