Vice President Joe Biden is playing defense Wednesday, apologizing profusely for referring earlier to shady bankers as “shylocks,” a term commonly associated with antisemitism.
His use of the term, which is a reference to the Jewish moneylender in William Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice,” was “a poor choice of words,” Biden said.
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