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Joe Biden Said He Believes All Women. Does He Believe Tara Reade? A former staffer says he sexually assaulted her in 1993
Reason ^ | 03/26/2020 | Robby Soave

Posted on 03/26/2020 5:25:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

When it comes to #MeToo sexual misconduct issues, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, has made it no secret where he stands: automatically believe women.

"For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real," said Biden during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who faced accusations that as a teenager he had assaulted a woman at a party.

As vice president, Biden played an important role in the Obama administration's efforts to compel colleges and universities to take sexual violence more seriously—and to adopt policies that limited the due process rights and presumption of innocence for the accused. In recent years, his rhetoric on these issues has been in lockstep with #MeToo activists.

Despite his public pronunciations on the subject of never touching women without their explicit verbal consent, Biden has previously faced accusations that he was too handsy with people. But now the former vice president is facing a much more serious accusation of sexual assault, from an alleged former staffer named Tara Reade.

It remains to be seen whether the mainstream media will assign Reade's story as much credibility and importance as that of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Kavanaugh; they certainly have not done so yet. In any case, supporters of Biden—as well as the candidate himself—should take this opportunity to reflect on whether automatic belief is a useful or practical approach for handling decades' old claims of misconduct.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: again; biden; joebiden; metoo; reade; sexualassault; tara; tarareade

1 posted on 03/26/2020 5:25:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

His defense will be that his dementia is so advanced that he cannot participate in his defense.


2 posted on 03/26/2020 5:27:44 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Joe doesn’t remember that happening. Then again, he doesn’t remember what he ate for lunch today.


3 posted on 03/26/2020 5:27:53 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump


4 posted on 03/26/2020 5:29:35 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: SeekAndFind
She kind of looks like a dude in her recent picture, so I found a period one:

so the question is, "would Laz do her?"

5 posted on 03/26/2020 5:34:14 PM PDT by UNGN (i)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s “her truth”.


6 posted on 03/26/2020 5:37:06 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reason shouldn’t be reposting this stuff. It is obviously an attempt by the DNC to kneecap Biden and replace him with Cuomo. Democrats don’t suddenly release this kind of info about D’s without an agenda.


7 posted on 03/26/2020 5:38:15 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: SeekAndFind

1993? gtfo. I’m siding with Joe on this ONE


8 posted on 03/26/2020 5:38:32 PM PDT by Ikeon (Nothing happens in politics "by chance")
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To: ModelBreaker

It’s difficult to predict.

SlowJoe went from the discard pile to presumptive nominee in 8 days. I assume that’s the Chicago Mob at work, and don’t understand why they would want anything to do with the East Coast Mob (or the Clinton Crime Family for that matter).


9 posted on 03/26/2020 5:41:45 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: UNGN

If ya gotta do sexual harassment, at least make sure she’s a babe. Sheesh.


10 posted on 03/26/2020 5:44:18 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: nascarnation

Slo Joe will lose to Trump — he probably can’t even make it through the campaign. This is the beginning of the move to make it OK to eliminate the guy with all the delegates and replace him with someone not named Sanders.


11 posted on 03/26/2020 5:48:56 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: SeekAndFind

What kind of childish reality-denying lunatic would “believe all women”?

They lie. They lie for fun, for money, for love, for revenge, out of anger, as a way to escape some trouble they are in. They lie to advance their careers. And then sometimes, they are crazy.

Believe ALL women? ... yeah, sure sport.


12 posted on 03/26/2020 5:49:34 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden can’t remember this morning much less back then.


13 posted on 03/26/2020 5:50:34 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Ikeon
Maybe She was 11 in 1993

COMPLETELY NORMAL!

14 posted on 03/26/2020 5:55:28 PM PDT by UNGN (i)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not to defend Joe or anything, but she should have not waited 27 years... she should have pressed charges when it happened. Ditto Weinstein, Cosby, Judge Moore, Tump — not saying all accused men are innocent. I’m just saying victimized women need to press charges when it happened, and if they didn’t, shut up.


15 posted on 03/26/2020 6:07:45 PM PDT by Nellie Wilkerson
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To: SeekAndFind

Just the fact Biden “believes all women” shows what a massive idiot he is.

I don’t, and I don’t believe all men either.

Fricking pandering demented moron.


16 posted on 03/26/2020 6:37:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Didn’t he run on Obama’s ticket? Seems strange it didn’t come up then.


17 posted on 03/26/2020 7:21:47 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

This creepy pedo is disgusting!!
He should be in a jail cell right next to the “smartest woman in the world “
Unfortunately we’ll never see it!

Body language of these kids doesn’t lie.
If I was any one of those father’s, I’d bitch slapped him. Oath of Office ceremonies or not!!
Every one of those fathers are PUSSIES, regardless of party!!!!!


18 posted on 03/26/2020 9:10:20 PM PDT by bantam
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To: SeekAndFind

27 years ago.....what did the police say when she reported it???


19 posted on 03/27/2020 3:44:03 PM PDT by terycarl
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