Posted on 05/03/2020 8:12:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Former Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee. He has received the endorsements of every major figure in the party, including former President Barack Obama, and 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Biden was also endorsed by all his opponents in this year’s nomination battle, including U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Despite this unified support and his consistent lead in the polls over President Donald Trump, Biden is in serious trouble. His media appearances in the past few weeks have been embarrassing. Biden continues to make serious gaffes, looks confused and does not inspire any confidence that he can handle the most important position in the world.
Now, Biden is facing a serious sexual assault allegation from a former staffer, Tara Reade. Last year, Reade came forward to claim that Biden engaged in inappropriate behavior, such as unwanted touching. In March, she gave more information about the alleged assault by Biden. She asserted that Biden groped and penetrated her against her will in 1993, while she was working in his U.S. Senate office. Not only did Reade make the accusation in an interview, but she also filed a criminal complaint against Biden with the Washington D.C. police.
Reade said that after she made a complaint about Biden’s behavior, she was fired from her Senate position. There is corroboration for this allegation from four people, including her brother, a neighbor and several people who knew Reade. They claim she told them about the attack.
In fact, her mother called into the Larry King Live show on CNN in 1993 to discuss a “problem” that her daughter had with a U.S. Senator. She asked for help on the show since her daughter “could not get through” with any type of relief. The caller did not identify herself, her daughter, or the Senator, but Tara Reade has confirmed it was her mother, Jeanette Altimus, who lived in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Unlike the flimsy allegations of Christine Blasey Ford against Judge Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, Reade seems to have a very credible accusation. While Ford was given great coverage by the media and allowed to testify before the United States Senate, Reade has been practically ignored. Ford became a household name after her more than 30-year-old allegations against Kavanaugh almost derailed his Supreme Court nomination. Until recently, Reade has been practically ignored by the mainstream news media and received few, if any invitations for interviews.
It is outrageous that Reade’s serious accusations of criminal sexual assault were not addressed by the former vice president for one month. Finally, in an interview on MSNBC Friday morning, Biden was asked about Reade’s allegations. He vigorously denied the charge, claiming that it “never, never happened.”
Democrats will now have to determine whether these allegations are enough to derail his nomination. Biden is also facing claims from seven other women that he engaged in unwanted touching, kissing, messaging, hair sniffing and hugging, although none of them alleged assault.
Biden was able to overcome the inappropriate non-sexual accusations by confessing he was too friendly and just wanted to warmly greet people at public events. Of course, he did not explain how it was proper to grab women and children without their consent.
Despite the inappropriateness of such behavior, Reade’s charges are more damaging as she is alleging criminal conduct that cannot be explained away. If Biden is so confident that the allegations are untrue, he should authorize the University of Delaware to allow access to his personal archives.
In the MSNBC interview, Biden refused to grant permission for his archives to be researched, claiming that it would be political “fodder” for his opponents. Even worse, Biden has refused to allow Reade’s name to be searched among his University of Delaware records.
While Biden has serious problems, prominent Democrats, and leaders of the #MeToo movement are sticking with him. For example, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) discounted Reade’s allegations and called Biden “a man of great integrity.”
Fortunately for Biden, his supporters are not abandoning him at this point. However, in the days ahead, the challenges for Biden will multiply. He will eventually have to leave his basement and conduct real interviews. This will give him more opportunities for embarrassing mistakes. He will also have to continue to address Reade’s accusations, which are not going to disappear.
While Biden faces plenty of difficulties, Trump will continue to dominate the recovery spotlight. If the nation can move forward toward an economic reopening, Trump will receive the credit. He must walk a fine line between health and economic concerns, but if anyone can navigate a political minefield, it is Donald Trump, who won the presidency in 2016 despite the political world being arrayed against him.
Although he is currently behind in the polls, President Trump is in good shape to repeat his 2016 victory and earn four more years in the White House.
No, the one’s who count them.
And 60 million people will vote for him because he’s not Trump
Everyone has already forgotten the last failed “Biden is done over sex” attack. They didn’t do all that endorsing last week for nothing.
He finished 5th in New Hampshire with zero delegates. Why is he the Dems nominee?
Pfft
I don't want no stinkin' half attacks. We are fighting for our freedoms. Either you win or you lose everything. That's where we are at the moment.
Because they’re stupid and ignorant.
Who else could they reasonably be expected to endorse? Hillary? Michelle? Bloomie? Castro? Stalin? Marx? Maduro? Newsome? That's it, Newsome!!/s
Uke Puke should be in a Kiev prison with his spawn, the dog-faced pony soldier in Joementia’s army. Thanks to Jeff for ID-ing his troops.
Great, fine, run him. Whichever DemonRat gets chosen to throw themselves into the Trump buzzsaw is fine by me.
This is a huge in-your-face prank on the world courtesy of George Soros, the driving power behind much of the upcoming vote fraud in this country as of November 3, 2020.
scrape down only a little ways, and you will see the hand of the international Soros octopus at the center of virtually every major crisis the world is facing, from the oil price collapse (which was meant to bode ill to the US fracking petroleum industry) to the international panic in regards to the almost lightning speed of the spread of the Wuhan virus, and the clumsy attempts to thwart the Trump initiatives to control it early on, from the phony impeachment inquiry, to the resistance of blue state governors to intercede much earlier than they did when it came to isolation and control, or what are either incompetence, or duplicity in making sure the panic and crisis spun on and on.
George Soros is as much an enemy of the United States as the Chinese Communist Party. And like the Chinese Communist Party, George Soros is already within our gates.
It is not going to be Joe, they will slip either Hillary and Micheal in at the last moment or Micheal and Hillary.
As usual they will cheat.
Biden can’t be guilty of anything. He’s a Democrat.
About 60 million usually vote for either major party candidate anyways. It’s just the way it is.
And now the world knows why they want to vote by mail.
Concur @ post 13. The rules that apply to “donations” never seem to apply to Soros who has created a web of organizations that promote his political agenda not only in the US, but throughout the world.
He even managed to fund much of it with US taxpayer dollars through the State Department and DOJ in the last administration. Remember the scandal about Holder diverting seized moneys from DOJ to liberal groups and causes (social justice)?
Another story/scandal that died in the darkness. Nunes has not talked about this in a long time as Trump came along with the Russia nonsense, but he had a good idea of what occurred long before Trump.
Rudy G in his Ukraine investigation uncovered clear evidence that the embassy in Ukraine was funneling money directly to Soros organizations within Ukraine. A far more interesting topic to me than Trump’s phone call.
Of the democrats, Joe Biden is comparatively harmless (I know, that’s like a harmless strain of Ebola, but it’s better than the most deadly strain of Ebola). So long as Hillary or Bernie are not VP, I want Joe to be the nominee.
Exposed: Democrats’ double standard on believing women
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