Joe Biden Faces Sexual Assault Allegations From A Former Staffer

Yahoo News ^ | 3/26/20 | Britni de la Cretaz

[sevinufnine]

Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing a new sexual assault allegation, from a woman named Tara Reade, who says she has been trying to share her story since 1993 when it allegedly happened. Reade’s allegation comes in the midst of Biden’s surging presidential campaign and is consistent with other stories women have shared about their discomfort with the way Biden has touched them.

Reade was a staff assistant for Joe Biden in 1993, when she claims he digitally raped her. She told part of her story in 2019, when Lucy Flores wrote in The Cut about the inappropriate way Biden smelled her hair and kissed the top of her head. At the time, several other women came forward to say that Biden had touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable, including Reade, who said that Biden used to put his hands on her shoulders and run his fingers up and down her neck. Now, she has detailed what she says is the entirety of her experience with Biden on The Katie Halper Show.

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According to Reade, Biden pressed her up against a wall and digitally penetrated her without her consent. “It happened all at once, and then… his hands were on me and underneath my clothes,” she says. She also remembers him asking “do you want to go somewhere else?” and then, when she had pulled away, “Come on, man, I heard you liked me.” Reade says that “everything shattered” in that moment and his claim that he thought she liked him made her feel like she had “done this” somehow. “I looked up to him, he was my father’s age. He was this champion of women’s rights in my eyes,” she says. “I wanted to be a senator; I didn’t want to sleep with one.”

Following her accusations against Biden, reports from Ryan Grim at The Intercept detailed all the ways Reade was stonewalled in telling her story — including from Time’s Up, the high-profile organization founded to help survivors tell their stories in the midst of the #MeToo movement, which is housed within the National Women’s Law Center. According to Grim’s reporting, Reade asked for help from the organization in January of this year, but she was told they could not help her because it would jeopardize their non-profit status due to the fact that he was a presidential candidate.

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Reade’s accusation has opened up discourse on social media about why the mainstream media is ignoring the story. “I don’t understand why the extremely serious sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden are not getting significant attention outside of left media,” tweeted Vox Senior Correspondent Zack Beauchamp.

[philippa]

Yahoo is the first “mainstream” news organization to talk about it.

[rrrod]

Cuomo’s hands are all over this lol

[rdl6989]

The “Dump Joe” movement is in full swing.

[sevinufnine]

Guess so. Apparently he is a “Bill Clinton” who hasn’t been outed yet. It’s clear he is totally creepy. The left should be screaming aloud, but I only hear crickets.

[rdl6989]

You can say that again.

[ArtDodger]

Accusation against a Republican: Must be believed.
Accusation against a Democrat: What a tramp! Amazing what you can snag when you drag a $100 bill through a trailer park.

[sevinufnine]

Hope he washed them first, and after. ;)

[JonPreston]

Reade’s accusation has opened up discourse on social media about why the mainstream media is ignoring the story

Discourse on social media? That doesn't exist. And if anyone is wondering why it's being ignored by the MSM, they're hopeless.

[SMARTY]

When this stuff happens-why do these women wait years to make ‘allegations’? I mean, seriously.

I am not going to defend Joe, but if some bimbo tried that kind of stunt with my brother, or some other male I cared about, I’d have to wonder.

These ‘me too’ clowns have so muddied the waters that they did themselves no good.

[dfwgator]

Yahoo is the first “mainstream” news organization to talk about it.

They got the "call" from the DNC.

[sevinufnine]

Hopeless? Well, this lady was (I’m assuming no longer) supporter of the Dems. So naturally it was quite a shock. She’s a bit older now and has some hutzpa.

[Raycpa]

Women never lie about such things.

[eyeamok]

I’m sure this is the Main Story on CNN right now, I’ll go check /s

[allendale]

Mr. Biden, President Obama is on the line: “Oh hi Barack....Look Joe. You did a great job stopping Bernie. But its not your night. The DNC will be telling you just how you will withdraw. You’ve been a good soldier and I just know that you will do the right thing. The Party will always hold you in great esteem. Bye Joe.”

[clyde260]

If you’d ever been a victim you would know exactly why. Same reason why girls and women are still reluctant or flat out will not say anything.

[sevinufnine]

Said she was afraid of retaliation. I can understand that.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Do you really think the BernieBros are going to rally behind a nominee that absolutely NOBODY voted for?

Neither do I.

[dfwgator]

In due time it will be. Looks like the DNC is making their move.