Joe Biden VP contender Rep. Karen Bass on Sunday walked back feedback praising late Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro in 2016 — insisting she did not know he was despised by his have people.

“I completely would have not place that statement out,” Bass explained to Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” when he pressed the Californian lawmaker.

“Lesson discovered, would not do that once more, for positive,” she continued, telling Wallace she now comprehended Castro’s management was a “brutal routine.”

In a assertion in 2016 just after Castro’s loss of life, Bass advised that “the passing of the Comandante en Jefe is a terrific loss to the individuals of Cuba.”

The chair of the Congressional Black Caucus has confronted greater scrutiny for controversial previous remarks in modern months just after her identify emerged as a single of the major contenders to join Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s ticket.

Bass, a 5-term congresswoman who signifies Los Angeles, was requested to go through the arduous vetting course of action by Biden final month.

The 66-yr-previous also found herself in scorching water earlier this week following movie emerged of her praising the Church of Scientology and its controversial founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Bass produced a statement on Saturday insisting that she didn’t know at the time of the prevalent allegations of abuse leveled at the church.

“Ten years back, I attended a new constructing opening in my district and spoke to what I think all of us imagine in — respect for a single another’s views, to address all persons with respect and to fight from oppression wherever we come across it,” she said.

“Since then, revealed initial-hand accounts in textbooks, interviews and documentaries have uncovered this team. All people is now aware of the allegations from Scientology.”