Posted on 05/02/2020 3:09:45 PM PDT by 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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Agree. What baffles me is why has she come out with this accusation now? What’s the motive? With CBF, we know what the motive was. But what is it in this case?
Don’t ask for rationality from Alberta’s Child. You won’t get it.
well if she wasn’t going to report the assault then why bother report anything? Not saying she is lying. I just don’t see this going anywhere.
No. Just no.
If the Senate has a slush fund for such things, why didn’t she get a check?
1. Monica Lewinsky’s relationship with Bill Clinton was completely consensual.
2. She somehow managed to convince her parents that — get this — Bill was going to divorce Hillary and marry her.
Get real, folks. Washington is filled with brain-dead twits like this ... and they’re brain-dead twits because THEIR PARENTS were brain-dead twits, too.
The ‘Game’ is to give the DNC an ‘out’ should they think that they have a serious shot at the white house. If they think Trump is vulnerable... they get their Media people to line-up behind Reade, and as they say in baseball, Biden is OUTTA HERE! Then Pelosi inserts unknown Dem with a thin resume (ie. Barack Obama II).
Maybe she is bidens vaccine for sexual harassment claims.
1. Were there any contemporaneous corroboration? Did they tell others? Did they tell others specific details? Were any official complaints filed?
2. Are there details that can be corroborated?
3. Is the events described credible?
4. Has the perpetrator have a history of similar offenses?
5. Is there a valid reason why it took so long to come forward? 6. Is there any physical evidence?
7. Were there witnesses?
Witnesses, of course is a tough one, but by my measure, she has credibility. Certainly more than Christine Blasey Ford.
It may not go anywhere, and I don’t think she’s lying either.
Imagine being Jane No-name and accusing Senator Joe Biden of rape.
I’m not going to second guess her. She put her name on a police report against an obvious, in your face sexual predator. That counts for something in my book.
Joe Biden, on the other hand, did interviews with friendly reporters, and it did not go well for him.
then you have no idea what it’s like to believe in the person you are working for and then be harrassed or worse assaulted and have to try to quickly work thru the mind and emotions of it all. Some others i know who have dealt withh this say similar. When you are an honest decent person not used to or having been taught to handle harrassment from bosses or others, it really shakes you and you don’t always act as you wish you had weeks or more later.
Joe is definitely out of control/abusive with many women and young girls. it’s disgusting and listening to pelosi - with her shakey hand - say say “Joe biden is is Joe biden” like it’s all ok, is no excuse to let a man keep doing this. They supposedly talked with him about it a few years ago, but he still does it at times. Years ago when he was younger he may have been more agressive in his abuse of women.
A finger is not harrassment...it’s assault.
Most likely she was paid by the CLINTONS to come out now!!
How do you explain her relaying the account of the incident to several people contemporaneously who now confirm it? What about her mother’s call to Larry King?
There is no comparison to Ford who had absolutely no corroborating evidence. She had no recall of time or place. The fact is that she made it all up and was in cahoots with the Dems to torpedo Kavanaugh. She walked away with a million dollars and heroine status.
Can we get back to talking about the billions missing in Ukraine?
Oh, and 8. Is she willing to testify under oath?
She is telling the truth, and everyone knows she is.
Biden will be switched out for someone else. My bet is Hillary still hasn’t given up her ambition to rule. And she has a file on Biden that will make your hair curl. This was just a shot across the bow to let him know, she has more. My only question is, will she dump him after he gets her to the White House, or dump him in August.
This woman was a Democratic Party operative for years. SHE STILL IS.
I am glad she had her wake up call moment - maybe her talking of it will help others to finally say enough is enough and walk away from biden or the dems. Just as Reade has realized.
It’s always a good time to shine light on truth. Joe needs to be stopped like Harvey and many others. Doesn’t matter that if his abuse of women was “more acceptable” to his dem colleagues or others, it’s still abuse - unwanted touching and words.
A Capitol Hill policeman once commented to me that it’s good Biden has aides or he’d never find his way to & from the office. This was said to me in the pre-Zero years. He’s never been exactly a Brainiac and it was no secret to the rank-and-file of the Hill. Only kept from the Delaware voters, who apparently are easy to fool.
Once again I would like to thank the Delaware voters for 36+ years of enabling this moron & his corrupt family.
No more direct election of senators!
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