Members of President Joe Biden’s inner circle and First Lady Jill Biden’s former colleagues are joining forces to support a top aide who was accused of sexual harassment.
“Nearly a dozen current and former colleagues of Anthony Bernal, an assistant to the president and top aide to the first lady, have alleged he has a long-running history of bullying and verbal sexual harassment, including speculating on the penis sizes of staffers in conversations, which one individual described as an attempt ‘to make people feel uncomfortable and have power over them,’” Fox News reported.
The anonymous employees stated that they came forward in the expectation that Bernal would be made to answer for his deeds. But because of his closeness to the first lady, some people were unconvinced and called him “untouchable.”
Regarding whether Bernal would be subject to an internal investigation into the situation, the White House and the First Lady’s office did not directly respond to Fox News Digital’s questions. To refute the accusations made by the staffers, Biden’s former and present inner circle members, as well as former Bernal colleagues, gave statements to Fox News defending his character.
Many of Bernal’s previous coworkers supported him as well. He spent the first two years of Biden’s administration working with an ex-first lady’s office staff member, who expressed “a lot of respect for him as a leader and a colleague.”
The New York Post revealed last week that among the charges against the openly gay Bernal was that he expressed to staff members the belief that a person’s thumb size is a good indicator of their penis size. He supposedly did this while serving in the White House today, in earlier capacities during the Biden campaign, and as Biden’s vice president.