"I would say to Jill, 'listen, you know how I feel about this. "One thing I do not want to do, and I know this might sound funny to people, is that I don’t want to hurt her chances of becoming first lady of the United States – that’s not my goal,” Stevenson told the station, according to the paper. “There’s probably 500 people in Delaware that saw Joe Biden and Jill at three major fundraising events at the Stone Balloon in 1972, after the Stone Balloon opened in February. "I said, ‘Look, the Bidens made up this dramatic story that they met, he saw a picture of her,’ and I told him, I said, ‘That was so untrue,’"Stevenson said in the interview, according to the Times. Stevenson made the claims in an August 17 interview with local Delaware media outlet WDEL. Joe and Jill Biden had their first date in March of 1975, and they married in June of 1977. Jill Biden separated from her first husband irreconcilably in the fall of 1974 and moved out of their marital home. “The relationship of Joe and Jill Biden is well documented. "These claims are fictitious, seemingly to sell and promote a book,” a Biden campaign spokesperson told Inside Edition in September, according to the paper.
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The Biden campaign denied the accounts that Stevenson gave to multiple media outlets, accusing him of attempting to publicize his upcoming autobiography, according to the Washington Times. (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) ` (script) Ex-husband of Joe Biden's wife claim two had affair that split marriage - The Jerusalem Post