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Biden silent on Tara Reade sexual assault allegation, as denials come from campaign
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Posted on 04/27/2020 5:58:52 PM PDT by conservative98

Last year, it took just a day for Joe Biden to release an in-person video directly addressing accusations of inappropriate contact with multiple women.

Now, more than a month after his former staffer Tara Reade publicly accused him of sexual assault in a podcast on March 25, Biden himself remains silent -- and even though he has conducted numerous interviews, no one in the media has asked Biden about the matter, either.

Biden's public silence has continued even after a "Larry King Live" clip from 1993 resurfaced this weekend, appearing to feature the mother of Tara Reade alluding to “problems” her daughter faced while working as a staffer for the then-U.S. senator from Delaware.

And on Monday, Business Insider reported more independent, contemporaneous support for Reade's claim from a former neighbor. That corroboration followed The Intercept's reporting that Reade's brother and friend had also backed her allegation, saying they had heard about her claim at the time.

Still, the only responses from Biden have come through his campaign. Asked by Fox News about the "Larry King" clip, the campaign referred Fox News to a statement earlier this month from Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield that said: “What is clear about this claim: it is untrue. This absolutely did not happen.

"Vice President Biden has dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence against women," Bedingfield said. "He authored and fought for the passage and reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act. He firmly believes that women have a right to be heard - and heard respectfully. Such claims should also be diligently reviewed by an independent press."

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: bidensexualassault; clintonnonnews; clowncar; cnn; crickets; delaware; joe; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; katebedingfield; larryking; tarareade; wheresjoe
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In March, Bedingfield had told Fox News: “Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false."

"Women should be believed." — Joe Biden, January 2018

Biden's silence is a marked contrast to his more direct handling of previous misconduct claims against him.

1 posted on 04/27/2020 5:58:52 PM PDT by conservative98
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because it's true.

2 posted on 04/27/2020 6:01:05 PM PDT by conservative98
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and he can’t remember it.
or the denial they want him to say.


3 posted on 04/27/2020 6:04:00 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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Of course. he cannot be allowed too deny everything personally and then be exposed as a liar. So he has hired this Kate Bedingfield to be his designated liar.

because nobody cares about her veracity. She isn’t running for anything.

4 posted on 04/27/2020 6:04:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized)
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I guess this makes Biden the ‘Real Pu$$y Grabber’.


5 posted on 04/27/2020 6:06:10 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims.

Unless it is Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton or Joe Biden.


6 posted on 04/27/2020 6:07:22 PM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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Lets ne fair, Brain Dead Biden isn’t aware of where he is, so he likely isn’t aware of any incident yet.


7 posted on 04/27/2020 6:07:27 PM PDT by Cyclops08
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Biden knows the commie media will ALWAYS cover for him, he just needs to keep his mouth shut about it and the commie media will handle the rest..the media’s motto “If we dont report it, it never happened” it worked for Obama for 8 freakin years


8 posted on 04/27/2020 6:08:33 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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If Biden was wise he’d be more silent than Calvin Coolidge, but he’s not.


9 posted on 04/27/2020 6:28:30 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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Biden doesn’t remember yesterday much less then.


10 posted on 04/27/2020 6:28:50 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Fox did a great timeline between Kavanaugh and Reade.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/media-that-rushed-to-report-kavanaugh-allegations-are-now-less-interested-in-biden-sexual-assault-claim


11 posted on 04/27/2020 6:32:10 PM PDT by Atlantan
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If the grabber actually penetrated, I’d call that “rape!”
My wife calls him “slimey.” Other women in my family call him a “Effin creep!”


12 posted on 04/27/2020 6:32:29 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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Joe says that when he saw her name was "Reade", he simply wanted to read her, and he thought it would be quite touching if he opted to reach out and use Braille to read her real good.


Joe's new campaign slogan...


     

13 posted on 04/27/2020 6:32:45 PM PDT by Songcraft
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His campaign knows nothing about what happened.
Why hasn’t Slow Joe responded directly?


14 posted on 04/27/2020 6:33:45 PM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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15 posted on 04/27/2020 6:34:51 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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16 posted on 04/27/2020 6:39:29 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Senile Joe Biden is so far gone, his staff can’t determine whether Tara Reade is telling the truth or not and thus don’t know how to respond....

if they think this will go away, they are sadly mistaken.

I see the hand of Crooked Hillary in this...


17 posted on 04/27/2020 6:46:45 PM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: Bon mots

Damn that’s funny!


18 posted on 04/27/2020 6:52:18 PM PDT by datura
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To: conservative98

Bedingfield wasn’t in that hallway. How does she know it “absolutely didn’t happen “?
Gropin Joe did this in all likelihood. It fits his pattern perfectly.


19 posted on 04/27/2020 6:56:09 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: conservative98

bttt


20 posted on 04/27/2020 6:56:34 PM PDT by timestax
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