It happened under Dubya, not Biden. There were other departures from the truth as well. See, the thing is, she accomplished her goal, of misinforming her fellow MAGAts, by mischaracterizing the story to confirm the existing bias. They will remember her mischaracterization as fact and will never take into account her walk back.
We see this stuff time and again, innuendo, allegations, and outright lies become accepted as fact in lalaland. In this case though, we are talking about a US Senator on national television speaking to the US population.