Biden Gets Handsy, Again

Published February 17, 2015 6:06pm EST | Updated October 28, 2023 6:19pm EST



Joe Biden got a little too close for comfort with another woman who doesn’t know him today. At the swearing-in ceremony of defense secretary Ash Carter, Biden put his hands on the shoulders of Carter’s wife and apparently leaned in to whisper something in her ear:

Biden previously elicited what Jeryl Bier calls “the look” when he got a little too close to the daughter of Senator Chris Coons earlier this year: