Reade: ‘I didn’t use sexual harassment’ in Biden complaint

AP ^ | 05 02 2020 | ALEXANDRA JAFFE, DON THOMPSON and STEPHEN BRAUN

[yesthatjallen]

Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, says she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment.

“I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable,” Reade said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. “I know that I was too scared to write about the sexual assault.”

Reade said she described her issues with Biden but “the main word I used — and I know I didn’t use sexual harassment — I used ‘uncomfortable.’ And I remember ‘retaliation.’”

Reade described the report after the AP discovered additional transcripts and notes from its interviews with Reade last year in which she says she “chickened out” after going to the Senate personnel office. The AP interviewed Reade in 2019 after she accused Biden of uncomfortable and inappropriate touching. She did not raise allegations of sexual assault against Biden until this year, around the time he became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

The existence of the Senate report has become a key element of the accusations against Biden, which he has flatly denied. Reade says she doesn’t have a copy of the report, and Biden said Friday that he is not aware that any complaint against him exists. He asked the Senate and the National Archives to search their records to try to locate a complaint from Reade.

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[yesthatjallen]

Three reporters means AP wants to carefully parse the narrative.

[Alberta's Child]

I despise Biden, but this dingbat has all the credibility of a Gloria Allred client.

[House Atreides]

When they have three reporters on a small story, I always assume one is the “commissar”.

[Brilliant]

This is a learning experience for Dems. Let’s see how much we can teach them.

[Raycpa]

Whatever she claims, I believe.

[dp0622]

What are you basing that on? Those are strong words. And you’ve got to have reasons. Good ones

[rfp1234]

Even if this woman's claims turned out to be overblown and his creepy perversions were ignored, Bidet would still suffer from his basic electoral issues (anti-fracking, anti-gun, anti-freedom, 50 years in DC establishment).

That is, even if voters totally discount his China ties, Burisma, and his senility.

Pick Heil Whitmer and bring it on, Slow Joe.

[EvilCapitalist]

Ditto.

[plain talk]

She goes to the trouble of filing a report with Congress yet doesn’t mention the meat of the incident (pardon the pun)?

[chris37]

Actually, no.

Reade’s allegations are very believable. I believe her. Joe Biden is a clear sexual predator, and his wife is his enabler.

[lewislynn]

I despise Biden, but this dingbat has all the credibility of a Gloria Allred client.

IOW, "I believe Joe"

You and other Democrats are saying those exact words.

[chris37]

Seeing as how congress is generally filled with lying criminal sex perverts and predators, I can’t really blame her.

What happens to enemies of the Democrat Party?

[max americana]

I believe her. I can sense BS from people. Working in Hollywood, my BS meter is always on high alert. It’s training in this industry. Blasey Ford, right off the bat, who lied at the Kavanaugh hearings. My business partner with our film studio is ex-FBI. He knew asap she’s ied back then. plus he heard from other ex-agents back then that Biden is a deviant sex addict.

[mewzilla]

I’m more swayed by what Biden his bimbo erruption team have been doing. Biden clearly has something to hide...

[DAC21]

I despise Biden, but this dingbat has all the credibility of a Gloria Allred client

That that must be why she was given a fast exit from Plugs staff when she brought attention to the incident. What I'm saying is "SOMETHING HAPPENED"

[laconic]

You despise Biden, but this dingbat has all the credibility of a Gloria Allred client. Do you mean the dingbat Joe Biden? Why would he be hiring Gloria Allred??

[gibsonguy]

Yep 3 authors means a carefully crafted manipulation.

[V_TWIN]

I’m concerned she doesn’t have her own copy.....wouldn’t you?

[livius]

Yeah, but this makes it look even worse...she described the incident and she said she was intimidated. Also, “sexual harassment” as a term wasn’t much in use, if at all, at that time in employment situations.

[V_TWIN]

It always takes 2 or more to write Bravo Sierra like this