Biden himself said that the FBI should investigate such allegations - when it was Kavanaugh.
↑ Click to hear Joe Biden recommend the FBI look into sexual assaults
Posted on 05/04/2020 2:57:31 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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WASHINGTON — A month ago, a California woman — Tara Reade — alleged that apparent Democratic nominee Joe Biden assaulted her 27 years ago when she worked for Biden in his Senate office, a charge that Biden vehemently denies.
“No, it is not true. I am saying unequivocally — it never happened,” Biden said onMSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday morning.
It's a complicated story, colored by Biden's past history of touching women (though never before in the way Reade alleges), and Reade’s past statements and writings.
So here are the facts as we know them:
Some have corroborated Reade's allegation, others haven't
Reade has changed her story from a year ago
In 2019, she accused Biden of inappropriate touching — but not of assault. “Alexandra Tara Reade said that in 1993 she was in her mid-20s when Biden, then a senator from Delaware, touched her several times making her feel uncomfortable,”The Union reported last year. “Reade said her responsibilities in the senator’s office were reduced after she refused to serve drinks at an event — what she called a desire of Biden’s because he liked her legs. Reade said she felt pushed out and left Biden’s employ in August 1993 after some nine months. ‘He used to put his hand on my shoulder and run his finger up my neck,’ Reade said. ‘I would just kind of freeze and wait for him to stop doing that.’
In 2018, Reade wrote Medium posts praising Vladimir Putin (which are now deleted)
Before she made her assault allegation, Reade was a Bernie Sanders supporter and opponent of Joe Biden
But it wasn’t until March 15 – after Sanders’ loss in Michigan – when she tweeted about Biden’s harassment/touching, but not the alleged assault.
On March 17, she tweeted about harassment and “more”
And then on March 25, she tweeted her podcast interview with progressive Katie Halper – her first reference on Twitter to the assault allegation
It’s a complicated story, colored by Biden’s past history of touching women (though never before in the way Reade alleges), and Reade’s past statements and writings.
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And touching children, but since he’s a Democrat they won’t mention that.
Biden is a train wreck, but this woman has some serious credibility problems. Filing a complaint against Biden in 1993 without mentioning your most egregious allegation against him is like citing Lee Harvey Oswald for littering while ignoring the rounds he was discharging at JFK’s motorcade.
FOUR PEOPLE to write this????
How do these 4 stooges know the imbecile hasn’t put his finger where he shouldn’t on previous occasions
WHY did Tara Reade come out now??? Are the CLINTONS behind her?
They just did more research into her past than they did Barry and big Mike.
Reade is a hot mess, but frankly most sexual assault victims are too.
Interesting how they always include the “Biden vehemently denies” but leave out the “Reade vehemently said it happened.”
Must mean she is lying.
Why were women coming out of the woodwork four years ago to complain about Trump? It's the politics of personal destruction. I don't believe Clinton's behind it but I would't put it past Berniebots.
Wondering if female secret service agents have stories to tell.
I just hope the stooges are able to tamp this controversy back into its box. My fear is this gives the rats cover to dump Slo Joe before he gets nominated. Trump hasn’t laid a glove on him, preferring to wait until he has been the spot secure. When Trump does lay into him it will get very gory, very quickly.
“When Trump does lay into him it will get very gory, very quickly”
Trump would want to attract Biden voters to him, not make them madder at him. I think he’ll focus on Biden’s politics, not Biden the man.
I think Trump will be very loud about Slo Joe’s fifty year crime spree in the senate and VP. Damn, he was selling America out long before even the Clintons got in the game. I have every expectation that Trump will highlight what a wretched, lying, stealing, groping, traitorous fraud Joe and his entire family is. This why Trump wants Joe. Biden is an easy target who can’t defend himself who has a lifetime of corruption available for ammunition.
“WHY did Tara Reade come out now??? Are the CLINTONS behind her?”
No (IMO): Obama, Jarrett, the DNC and the Nomenklatura are behind the whole thing.
Reade is very much a part of the plan to install Big Mike (as is Creepy Joe). If the Party did not want Reade, Reade would not be here.
BM is a done deal, has been since before the primaries.
“WHY did Tara Reade come out now??? Are the CLINTONS behind her?”
No (IMO): Obama, Jarrett, the DNC and the Nomenklatura are behind the whole thing.
Reade is very much a part of the plan to install Big Mike (as is Creepy Joe). If the Party did not want Reade, Reade would not be here.
BM is a done deal, has been since before the primaries.
Biden himself said that the FBI should investigate such allegations - when it was Kavanaugh.
↑ Click to hear Joe Biden recommend the FBI look into sexual assaults
“(though never before in the way Reade alleges)”
Oh really...
IIRC , it was the Clintons who brought the Scorched Earth policy to DC.
It was going on long before then. Atwater for Bush, senior. Democrats against Regan. Maybe even longer than that.
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