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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.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: biden; california; reade; tarareade
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To: redshawk
It was Ted Kaufman, the senator's chief of staff.

He claims that he doesn't even remember Reade.

Interesting memory the guy has.

81 posted on 05/07/2020 6:14:06 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: RubyR

Thanks for the heads-up on the update!


82 posted on 05/07/2020 6:15:02 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: an amused spectator

Betcha Kaufman arranged for her payment. Hush money. I hope the republicans don’t let this go.


83 posted on 05/07/2020 6:25:13 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: an amused spectator
you're welcome :) I just went to search for Ted Kaufman in the newspapers and came across this image from Aug 8 1993. The young woman in the chair next to Biden looks something like Tara Reade at that time. Maybe not... but I had no where else to put this - hope you don't mind.

biden1993a

84 posted on 05/07/2020 6:36:04 PM PDT by RubyR
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To: an amused spectator

This is just the gift that keeps on giving. I can’t believe that between all this floating around and the fact that Joe Biden is actively losing his mind in front of the world, the Democrats are still crazy enough to let him continue to be their nominee. I mean, they can’t seriously be considering running Joe Biden in the general election, right? I would guess this is just to keep Bernie out of that spot and they’ll do something dumb like try Clinton again?


85 posted on 05/07/2020 6:38:25 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: an amused spectator

Would you expect any different?


86 posted on 05/07/2020 6:52:11 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

No, I would not expect anything different.


87 posted on 05/07/2020 6:55:59 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: RubyR

Great post!


88 posted on 05/07/2020 6:56:56 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: an amused spectator
"The wagons have been circled."

Yep. Biden lies, and these people swear to it.

89 posted on 05/07/2020 7:03:59 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: redshawk
"Ted Kaufman......how does he explain the ex husband?"

Why would the husband even mention it in 1996 court documents, unless it made such an impression on him, and explained the state his ex-wife was in when she asked him for help after leaving the job.

90 posted on 05/07/2020 7:07:04 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: redshawk
"Betcha Kaufman arranged for her payment. Hush money. I hope the republicans don’t let this go."

I mentioned on another FR thread within the past week that I wondered if any money had been paid to her on behalf of Biden, from the Congressional Hush/Slush fund set up to pay off sexual harassment complainers.

91 posted on 05/07/2020 7:08:51 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Yep. The ex even said that it affected her greatly and said that it would for a long time. You don’t get traumatized if he just pinched her tushy. She had some nasty thing happen to her.


92 posted on 05/07/2020 7:21:37 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: RubyR
Her part is on the same side, and she had two versions of hair from that time.

The curly mess is one of them.

In this picture, the young woman has kind of got the Jennifer Grey [Dirty Dancing] thing with her nose going...

93 posted on 05/07/2020 8:14:17 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: an amused spectator
I made a comparison---

tarareadecompare

94 posted on 05/07/2020 8:37:06 PM PDT by RubyR
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

95 posted on 05/07/2020 10:55:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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