Lara Trump, a senior campaign advisor for her father-in-law President Donald Trump, said Friday she thinks the timing of complaints about former Vice President Joe Biden's actions with women "just seems very convenient" because he's been in the public eye for so long.
"I know what it feels like to have things written about you, said about you that are not true," Trump, who is married to the president's son Eric, told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "There is very little accountability these days with social media on a lot of networks and a lot of news outlets."
She added she has never met Biden, but if she were already in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, she wouldn't like to run against him.
"Who knows why this came up now?" Trump said. "It certainly has made a lot of people uncomfortable. He has addressed it. He probably does owe more explanation but I will tell you I take everything with a grain of salt these days because I know what it is like and our family knows what it is like better than anyone to have things said about you and being accused of things and maybe it's not the full truth."
The president Thursday shared a video mocking Biden and his daughter-in-law said she thinks he was just "having fun with it."
When asked if she thinks Biden should apologize, Trump replied that "maybe specifically" he should, but at the same time, she tries to stay away from such matters because they can get blown out of proportion in the media.
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