Joe Biden accused Robert Kennedy of bugging Senate offices

At the height of the Watergate scandal, 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden claimed that New York Sen. Robert Kennedy had been guilty of spying on political opponents.

The future vice president’s comments came during a May 1973 speech at the City Club of Cleveland in Ohio when he was a 30-year-old freshman U.S. senator for Delaware, which was revealed in an audio recording of the event released this year. He was asked by a female audience member if “to the best of his knowledge” any members of the Democratic Party had ever engaged in political trickery such as illegal bugging.