Posted on 05/02/2020 12:51:15 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A woman says she was sexually harassed by presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden when she was 14 years old.
The woman, Eva Murry, told Law&Crime that Biden complimented her on the size of her breasts at the First State Gridiron Dinner & Show in 2008, a long-running roast of and party for politicians, journalists and prominent business figures held each year in Delaware. Murry says she remembers the event occurring sometime around May of that year.
One friend and her sister said that Murry told her details of the alleged incident more or less immediately after it happened. Four other friends of Murry’s said they were told about the incident, with the same details, between two and three years after it originally occurred.
Law&Crime interviewed Murry, her sister, and those friends over the course of multiple days. Murry is the niece of former Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell and said she occasionally received school credit for attending such political events. O’Donnell was running a long-shot campaign against Biden at the time that the alleged sexual harassment incident occurred.
The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Biden is currently under fire over allegations that he sexually assaulted former Senate staffer Tara Reade in 1993 by penetrating her with his fingers without her consent. Biden’s campaign has denied it and Biden went on MSNBC Friday morning to strongly refute that allegation himself.
According to Gridiron Dinner Secretary Cathy Klocko, the roast is held the first Saturday of every May, which would place the 2008 event on May 3 of that year. Klocko went on to note that until recently the event was secretive and did not release information such as guest lists or photographs of the event.
“I remember walking into the lobby and being in awe of all the people in such fancy clothes,” Murry said in an interview. “Our two parties of people gravitated towards each other and everyone started saying their hellos. When it was Biden and my aunt’s turn to say hello he quickly turned to me and asked how old I was. I replied with my age and he replied with the comment ‘Fourteen? You’re very well endowed for 14!’ I was confused but it was definitely weird, he looked me up and down and hovered his eyes on my chest so I had some clue [about] the notion of his comment but didn’t fully understand at the time. We quickly separated from his area after the encounter.”
Murry, who is 26 now and engaged with a son and daughter, was in middle school at the time Biden allegedly made the comments about her breasts. She said that she attended a few additional campaign events with her aunt after Biden made the alleged remarks and she described being anxious and feeling sick to her stomach around him or upon learning that he would also be attending any such future events.
“I feel his comments were verbal sexual harassment,” Murry told Law&Crime. “I think I was too naive to realize exactly what it meant at the time but I vividly remember the uncomfortable feeling I had in the pit of my stomach during the whole encounter. It wasn’t Biden’s words alone that made me so uncomfortable, it was the look, the tone, the whole general vibe was off.”
Murry acknowledged the timing of her allegation would likely invite accusations that she was acting politically but she insisted that was not the case.
Murry said that she was personally motivated to speak out because she began seeing Biden’s name and face appearing all over Facebook in early April after Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic primary. She said that many of her friends started posting about voting for Biden. So, Murry started off by telling each of those friends her story. She says she did this over and over.
“It got overwhelming repeating myself on everyone’s post,” she said. “So I made a master thread with the intentions of informing my friends and family who I care very much about, just what kind of man Biden is.”
Murry told Law&Crime she was upset about what Biden said to her rather than anything having to do with his politics.
“No man or woman should get away with acting that way and that is what this boils down to,” she said.
Four of Murry’s friends say that they were told about the incident. One said she was told about it around the time it happened. Two more said they were told about it in 2010. Three of those friends agreed to speak on the record.
“She was telling me about the event and explained what happened,” Murry’s friend Victoria Anstey told Law&Crime. “I remember being so shocked. I didn’t know who Biden was or anything. Just [that] she said he was an ‘older man’ was enough for me to not like the situation.”
Law&Crime verified Murry’s and Anstey’s identities by obtaining their driver’s licenses.
“Eva is telling the truth,” she added.
Anstey, 25, describes herself as a feminist, animal lover and a Democrat. She confirmed that Murry told her about the comments in 2008 when they were both teens. Anstey said Murry identified the man as Biden and said that hearing about the incident left her feeling angry.
“She told me he looked at her chest and she was well endowed,” Anstey said. “She looked very uncomfortable. I asked how old he was. She said like an older man. I said like old like a teacher or elderly and she said old like a teacher. I remember myself getting mad.”
Anstey also commented on the political dimensions of Murry’s allegation.
“I can’t stand Trump,” she said. “This isn’t politically motivated. This is about men in power using their status to silence victims.”
“She was 14 and any man to think that those comments are appropriate are on the wrong side of history,” Anstey continued. “We can’t let men (and females) keep getting away with these sexual comments. It’s past due that society stop turning a blind eye. People seem to only care when it’s someone they know, which is ridiculous. I want the next president to be a Democrat more than anyone but I can’t overlook this. It’s not justice for 14-year-old Eva. It would be doing her a disservice.”
A second friend, Katielynn Weaver, told Law&Crime that Murry first told her about it “over ten years ago when we were younger.”
“I started going to Delaware with her and her family so it was pretty fresh for her dealing with it,” Weaver said.
“The year was 2010 because I was 17 and just graduated and got my first car and that’s what we would take back and forth trips to Delaware,” she told Law&Crime. “The incident happened before I met Eva but she told me about it prior to our first time arriving in Delaware.”
Eva Murry’s older sister, Jenna Murry, also says she was told about the alleged incident “within a week or so of the dinner.”
The elder Murry said she previously had “a similar arrangement” with O’Donnell, “going around with her to political events” when she was also 14. Jenna said she kept up with Eva though the two didn’t talk much at the time because she was attending The College of New Jersey (TCNJ).
“I remember my mom mentioning at some point soon after that that Eva had met Biden and he’d made a weird comment,” Murry told Law&Crime. “The next time I was home from TCNJ Eva told me about the comment in detail from her perspective, specifically that he looked her up and down and stared right at her chest and made her feel really uncomfortable. I remember being really pissed off on her behalf and thinking that she was probably more upset than she was letting on and trying to be light hearted by that point, but seemed shook. I told basically all my friends about it at the time.”
Aileen Callaghan, another friend, said she first heard about the incident when she and Murry were teenagers. “It was probably 2010 when she told me,” she told Law&Crime. “She mentioned that he was at an event she was with with her aunt and that he was a creep and was looking at her chest the whole time.”
“I remember she said that Biden was a pervy old man, and was like laughing but looking down when she told us,” Callaghan continued. “When she got to the details, she was clearly pissed that it had happened, and clearly hadn’t known how to do anything about it.”
A fourth friend said that Murry told her about the alleged sexual harassment incident in 2010 or 2011 when both attended high school at the New Hope Academy in Yardley, Pennsylvania. The friend recalled Murry telling her Biden had made the comment about her body and that the two had nervously described the incident as “creepy” and wrong. The fourth friend spoke to Law&Crime on the condition of anonymity to protect her safety and career.
Murry originally detailed her accusations in a Facebook post on April 8.
“Back then I didn’t know the meaning of this” she wrote about Biden’s alleged comments. “[F]or those of you that still don’t [know], it means Biden was telling me I had very large breasts for a 14-year-old. I learned shortly after what he meant and felt uncomfortable every time I met him afterwards.
Several additional friends of Murry’s commented on the post noting that they recalled hearing about the incident and said Murry was courageous for speaking out. Attempts to reach one of those additional friends by Law&Crime were unsuccessful at the time of publication.
Murry addressed the support she received for speaking out in a later comment on the thread to that initial post.
“I’ve told friends [and] family for years but I’ve never publicly put it out there,” Murry wrote. “I vividly remember the anxiety I would feel going to these types of functions after that encounter, it sucked the excitement right out of it for me.”
“I’m worried about the internet bullies so I never put it out there but I went on to Facebook after putting my daughter down for a nap and Joe Biden’s name was everywhere!” she continued–describing the events of early April. “I had to say something.”
Murry also noted that she encountered Biden “about three times after that” at similar such events and that “his eyes never were on my face.”
ye ole shotgun Joe and uncle shotgun joe....
Even 14 yo ones!>>>>
Yes.
Usually apprenticed to their elder companion who accompany them to show them the ropes. Its an acculturation from childhood to youth. The institutionalized version is called “coming out.”
But yes, they often pick it up from television, and the inetrnet.And they enter society without any real knowledge about self protection.
And men are blamed for biting the bait, as they should be according to law, but NOT without due process my dear.( smile)
This Dip Wad is the only person the Democraps can come up with for POTUS???
“...All this is coming out too early. ...”
It’s coming out early because it’s coming from the dems.
Our side isn’t doing this.
His own party wants him out of the way. They used him when they needed him. Now they don’t need him anymore, so he needs to be removed.
They want a Hillary-Obama team.
It appears that Christine O’Donnel’s niece must have confused the event at which the incident occurred, or else made it up: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-allegation-woman-says-biden-commented-on-her-breasts-at-an-event-when-she-was-14%3f_amp=true
Interesting read. Thanks.
I assume she is preggers in this picture. But I never say anything when I see that. Cause if I’m wrong.........
That’s not a curve. It’s a beer gut.
Where were these women when we needed them in ‘08?
I agree, this has the Clinton stench all over it.
Reade is a life-long democrat who is pissed off at Biden because he fired her after she filed a complaint. Was the complaint based on his indecent remark about her having nice legs, so she should serve drinks a some function, or because he pressed her up against a wall and stuck his fingers inside of her. There’s a chance she welcomed the advance, but didn’t expect him to do what he did, maybe just kiss her.
If she harbors anger at Biden and has a chance to hurt him, this may be the opportunity. One thing has bothered me about he story. He didn’t have her pinned down in a hotel room, biting her lip to subdue her like Bill Clinton when he raped Juanita Broaddrick in April of 1978. If a man presses a women up against a wall and starts kissing her, against her will, she’s likely to push him away or slap him. If a man puts his fingers inside her, that’s a whole different matter. That would create a very strong response, a scream, a definite physical attempt to free herself. She doesn’t mention slapping him, kicking him in the balls or anything, only that she seemed shocked and didn’t know what to do. Hard to believe but possible. I would think though that if a man reached up under a women’s skirt against her wishes, she will quickly try and get away. Maybe she tries to talk him down, reaches for his hand and pulls it away. But if a man continues and to pushes his fingers inside her, that should definitely create a swift response.
But this is what the Clintons do, they look for something they can use and turn it into something very damaging. They just need a foundation for the lie. Then they turn it over to David Brock and his smear merchants at Media Matters. They find this compliant about Biden, know his image as a handsy creep. Convince this women to embellish it, to the point he’s sticking his fingers in her.
In the Eva Murry case they get her to fabricate a story about him meeting her at this event she attended when she was 14, that he commented on her large breasts. An event Biden attended every year, the foundation for the lie. But they didn’t do enough research, Biden was home that year, she was 14. Of course she could have gotten the event mixed up, maybe it was the next year, maybe Biden actually did attend before going home, as it was a event he never missed.
There’s a very good chance this Murry story was done by Biden’s people. Let’s create a story that sounds good, even get 5 people to say she told them about it in 2008. Then we show she lied, Biden wasn’t there. knowing all along he wasn’t there. The whole thing is a false flag. That way if other legit claims come forward with people who said they were told by the accuser, we can refer to the Murry claim, say they all are lies created by the GOP.
I almost made that mistake once. I have 5 children, so I have a bit of experience in seeing the preggy bulge. Apparently here, just fat. Or as she says, 'curves'
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/gov-gretchen-whitmer-calls-comments-curves-way-line-131211668.html
I don’t know.... BJ’s wife waited a while before finally endorsing the pedophile, and BJ’s wife is NEVER allegedly wrong about ANYTHING.
serial molester of girls and women
early onset dementia
used his power of office to enrich his family and stop his son’s investigation
plagiarizer
perfect dem candidate for president
“..this has the Clinton stench all over it....”
Half of the democrat party has that stench.
The other half has the OBunghole stench.
A friend of mine said she was accosted by Biden in a hallway at some event. He pushed her up against a wall and said “Guess where you’re sleeping tonight- My room!”
She pushed him away and threatened to tell his wife (who was there at the event)
She will probably not go public, but I heard about this YEARS ago- before he was running for pres.
That was Biden’s statement? “She’s not my type”?????
that’s messed up
I always thought she was kinda hot
Hot and stupid can be a good combination- EXCEPT- there is a certain kind of hot and stupid AND ambitious that gets very, very far because guys are stupid enough to give them whatever they want.
A woman could become president that way.
Look at AOC... So hot, so stupid, but … CONGRESSMAN.
this is because dems are trying to get rid of him.
killary, obozo may be behind it alongwith tara reid herself-a-dem
even after nomination rats can pull toricelly on him. and corrupt system (like nj supreme court) will allow it.
It would make more sense to show her in her goth pale-face makeup, black leather jacket, red lipstick-—a picture that’s been widely circulated-—where she looks so much like a dominatrix you find yourself looking to spot the whip somewhere in the photo. I do think she and Biden are made for each other...but how does he manage to avoid picking a black woman like Kamala Harris or chubby what’s-her-name, Abrams. Poor Joe has got so many difficult decisions ahead of him.
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