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Washington Post editorial board calls on Biden to address sexual assault allegation
Axios.com ^ | 4/28/2020 | Orion Rummler

Posted on 04/29/2020 6:18:43 PM PDT by Beave Meister

The Washington Post editorial board published an article on Wednesday calling for former Vice President Joe Biden to publicly address a sexual assault allegation made against him by Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer.

Driving the news: Business Insider this week published accounts from two on-the-record sources corroborating parts of allegations by Reade, who alleges Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993.

Biden's campaign has told Axios that the alleged assault "absolutely did not happen." Top Democrats like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Stacey Abrams have stood behind Biden, while others have remained silent. Biden himself has not publicly spoken about the allegation.

What they're saying: The Post's editorial board called on Biden to release old Senate records stored at the University of Delaware. Reade has said she filed a written complaint with a "Senate personnel office" in 1993, but the university said it cannot release the records until Biden "retires from public life."

"President Trump has been credibly accused of sexual assault, including rape, by dozens of women. He has responded by brushing them off, once claiming repulsively, 'She’s not my type.' It may seem unfair to hold Mr. Trump’s likely rival in the 2020 race to a standard that Mr. Trump has failed to meet again and again. But Mr. Trump shouldn’t be allowed to set that standard. A better man could."

— Washington Post editorial board

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


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KEYWORDS: biden; bidensexualassault; joebiden; meetoo; reade; sexualassault; tarareade; wapo; washingtonpost
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To: VeniVidiVici
Democrats “stand behind Biden”.

They know how dangerous it is to stand in front of him.

21 posted on 04/29/2020 6:43:49 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Helicondelta

Do not discount one Willard Romney throwin his underwear in the ring


22 posted on 04/29/2020 6:44:50 PM PDT by advertising guy (It's all fun and games til someone farts , you don't have a fart on you now do you Swalwell ?)
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To: Paladin2
Yes I think this is the two minute warning for the Biden malarkey express.
23 posted on 04/29/2020 6:48:29 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized)
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To: Beave Meister

Sure sign they’ve found a replacement player.

Hillary?


24 posted on 04/29/2020 6:50:45 PM PDT by moovova (Words are fun.)
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To: Beave Meister

Too bad this is gaining traction.

If Joe makes it to November the Dems will be toast.

Sorry, I know this comes off as shallow.


25 posted on 04/29/2020 6:52:59 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: advertising guy

Well, I wouldn’t get Romney as a suitable replacement. A scant eight years ago, the Democrats were told that he was the spawn of Satan. Now, he invokes nausea among the Republican rank and file. I don’t know what his base would be.


26 posted on 04/29/2020 6:56:07 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: alternatives?
"President Trump has been credibly accused of sexual assault, including rape, by dozens of women.

F-ing PROVE it. They hide behind the 1st Amendment and its disgusting. I have no use for some of the crap both men have done in the past. I will say that statements like this from the compost are disgusting. They don't give any care for women. What they care about is who pays them to say whatever they say like political whores pretending to be a newspaper.

27 posted on 04/29/2020 6:57:52 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: moovova

28 posted on 04/29/2020 6:58:44 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: airborne

....If Joe makes it to November the Dems will be toast....

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I had a dream that Joe chose Maxine Waters as his running mate. That was a good dream....


29 posted on 04/29/2020 6:59:27 PM PDT by know.your.why ( If love is blind then marriage is an institution for the blind)
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To: Beave Meister

And so, Biden avoids any pedo discussion/explanation


30 posted on 04/29/2020 7:00:01 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Beave Meister


Biden’s opening statement about the assault allegations...
31 posted on 04/29/2020 7:04:15 PM PDT by Tobias Grimsley (some things can be spoken, some can not)
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To: fhayek

He is crisp articulate and his creases are professional

AND. He wrote the 1st Obama care

Hillary , Mike Obama. Sleepin Joe, and Mitts have name recognition

Try naming 2 more dems with name recognition enuf to get dem trust and vote

Hell if Lettuce McCain was alive he would have the slot

Lettuce wanted Liebermann as his Vice and Ketchup Kerry

wanted Lettuce as his Vice

They have all slept with the same sheep


32 posted on 04/29/2020 7:05:22 PM PDT by advertising guy (It's all fun and games til someone farts , you don't have a fart on you now do you Swalwell ?)
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To: Beave Meister

Looks like his days are numbered. The DNC is ready to move.


33 posted on 04/29/2020 7:06:22 PM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: Beave Meister

34 posted on 04/29/2020 7:12:02 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: bob_esb

It’s from “The Simpsons”


35 posted on 04/29/2020 7:20:18 PM PDT by twyn1
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To: know.your.why

I have a sneaking suspicion that he is going to pick Hillary.

Her base is still strong. Stronger than sleepy Joe.


36 posted on 04/29/2020 7:20:38 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: airborne

I have a sneaking suspicion that he is going to pick Hillary.

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Boy. Imagine hillary trying to coach joe about debates. hmmmm....no...i cant see it happening. This party has been so friggin strange so far...and so beaten so many times...i just shake my head imagining what they might pull next.


37 posted on 04/29/2020 7:43:23 PM PDT by know.your.why ( If love is blind then marriage is an institution for the blind)
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To: Beave Meister

Just the games Teddy had taught him to play in the basement. They all know it’s true.


38 posted on 04/29/2020 7:51:06 PM PDT by The Accused
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To: doug from upland

“And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body, carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind”. (Lyric line from super group Cream’s ‘Tales of Brave Ulysess’ off of the Disraeli Gears album, 1967.


39 posted on 04/29/2020 7:53:54 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Beave Meister

The Washington Post is in the tank for Biden... they’re setting up an excuse for themselves.

The editorial board doesn’t give a damn if a democrat rapes a women or lets her drown in a car, or if she’s lied about and her reputations ruined. They’re IN THE TANK for democrats...

The Washington Post kisses democrat butt... that all they do it’s all they are...


40 posted on 04/29/2020 9:05:31 PM PDT by GOPJ (Was misery & death worth the four bucks saved on the crappy waffle-iron 'made in China?)
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