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Exclusive: 1996 court document confirms Tara Reade told of harassment in Biden’s office
The San Luis Obispo Tribune ^ | May 7, 2020 | David Carracio

Posted on 05/07/2020 4:12:28 PM PDT by an amused spectator

The San Luis Obispo County court filing is the first official public record confirming she made allegations at that time.

A court document from 1996 shows former Senate staffer Tara Reade told her ex-husband she was sexually harassed while working for Joe Biden in 1993.

The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say Biden committed the harassment nor does it mention Reade’s more recent allegations of sexual assault.

Reade’s then-husband Theodore Dronen wrote the court declaration. Dronen at the time was contesting a restraining order Reade filed against him days after he filed for divorce, Superior Court records show.

In it, he writes Reade told him about “a problem she was having at work regarding sexual harassment, in U.S. Senator Joe Biden’s office.”

It appears to be the only written record that has surfaced from the time that substantiates Reade shared her account in the years following the alleged incident, though a former neighbor came forward last week about similar conversations she said she had with Reade in 1995.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: biden; california; reade; tarareade
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Groiper Joe has got more splainin' to do.

1 posted on 05/07/2020 4:12:28 PM PDT by an amused spectator
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So the story has changed from Biden sexually assaulted her to sexual harassment problems in Biden’s office. She’s not helping her case. Has she told the Senate secretary that she is willing to allow her personnel files be released yet?


2 posted on 05/07/2020 4:15:26 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: an amused spectator

Now that’s something.


3 posted on 05/07/2020 4:16:09 PM PDT by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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To: an amused spectator

The Smoking Gun.


4 posted on 05/07/2020 4:17:20 PM PDT by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: DoodleDawg

Not specific to Joe but a hell of a lot more than Balsey Ford ever had on Kavanaugh.


5 posted on 05/07/2020 4:18:10 PM PDT by pnut22
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“effected (sic) by it”

Another “super educated” lawyer write this?


6 posted on 05/07/2020 4:18:20 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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Democrats don’t care if there is video tape of him molesting children...........


8 posted on 05/07/2020 4:19:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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My understanding is that she has said any record found will say “sexual harassment”. She says that only later did she publicly say it was sexual assault.


9 posted on 05/07/2020 4:20:14 PM PDT by conejo99
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Yeah.

If the Lefties had had something like THIS on Kavanaugh, their heads would have exploded.

10 posted on 05/07/2020 4:21:36 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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“So the story has changed from Biden sexually assaulted her to sexual harassment problems in Biden’s office.”

No. This document is from 1996 and historically proves Reade talked about biteme’s sexual harassment at that time. She later, as is typical of rape victims, was able to articulate that she had been penetrated by biteme. That is known as sexual assault/rape.


11 posted on 05/07/2020 4:22:07 PM PDT by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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Here ya go sh!ting on some more good news


12 posted on 05/07/2020 4:22:27 PM PDT by Conserv
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It documents that she reported sexual harassment while working in Biden’s office, to her husband back in 1996, and that it led to her leaving her position in the office. By Democrat standards, this should be all they need to condemn Biden, since they had no evidence against Kavanaugh, other than a letter Ford wrote to Congress 20+ years after the fact.


13 posted on 05/07/2020 4:23:11 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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Shall I type more slowly, so you can understand the article better?

I'm not sure I'm the one with reading comprehension issues. It's right there "sexual harassment in U.S. Senator Joe Biden's office." No sexual assault. Not sexual harassment by Biden. Her story has been changing.

14 posted on 05/07/2020 4:23:20 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Sexually assault is a form of sexual harassment.


15 posted on 05/07/2020 4:23:21 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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My understanding is that she has said any record found will say “sexual harassment”. She says that only later did she publicly say it was sexual assault.

In mathematical terms, "sexual assault" is contained in the set "sexual harassment".

16 posted on 05/07/2020 4:23:59 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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> Democrats don’t care if there is video tape of him molesting children........... <

Unfortunately, that’s the bottom line.


17 posted on 05/07/2020 4:24:29 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Never mind...do you know Sarah Palin got divorced? NYTimes has 3 reporters digging into her trash. /s


18 posted on 05/07/2020 4:25:22 PM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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Not specific to Joe but a hell of a lot more than Balsey Ford ever had on Kavanaugh.

What, that she told someone about it? Ford had people say she had told them as well. In both cases you have allegations that are decades old without any police reports to support them or evidence to back the claims up. I don't see where Reade's claim is any more substantial than Ford's was.

19 posted on 05/07/2020 4:25:33 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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This document shows that her livelihood was effected by the harassment since that was the reason she left the job, and that she needed help with room and board until she could get another job.


20 posted on 05/07/2020 4:25:50 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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