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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Good point. I hadn't thought about that before.
I think you're right and wrong about that. I started jobs at two companies in 1992 and 1994. In 1992 I don't recall getting any sexual harassment training nor hearing it mentioned. IN 1994 at a different company I remember a very low production value VHS video featuring situations that were unacceptable. One was the "touchy" boss who massages women's shoulders and then when confronted claims that he does it to everyone -- that just the kind of touchy guy he is.
Also, the Anita Hill fiasco had just happened so people were aware of a list of things (that Justice Thomas did not do) that were unacceptable.
So it was out there as a topic.
On the other hand Congress was specifically exempted from sexual harassment statutes as long as the Democrats controlled the House (53 years). Then the Republicans took control of the House in 1994 in part by making the "Congressional Accountability Act" the first plank of the Contract With America.
You have to think like a woman.These words are hard to say.She was probably talking to a man.Why file?She had to in her heart.
I’d be willing to bet the DNC is running a game on all of us. Did Biden do it? Who knows? He’s done that & mored in all likelihood. Did something happen to Reade? Yeah, I think thats’ been pretty well established. The “What” will probably never be proved, however.
We’re all conservatives here. So we’re spectators in this thing. What happens to Joe Biden will be like the Obamacare — we won’t be able to stop it, but at least it won’t have our fingerprints on it. Sit back, enjoy the show, and take notes. Sexual harrasment is the weapon of choice for the Democrats.
I always said that when 3 KKK member got into a room together, you could be sure that at least one of them was an FBI informant.
Agree 100%. Excellent post.
Thank you. Just taking your argument to the logical conclusion. Or not. It might be my paranoia. But with Democrats it’s always a good idea to assume they are out to get you.
Reade confirms that the call came from her mother. I would imagine others like siblings could confirm it as well. This isn't a matter of taking "a little bit of information and feed it to a willing Press with an eyedropper along with a healthy hint to fill-in some of the narrative gaps." It is real corroborating evidence.
In the call, a woman asks King, “what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington?” Her daughter, she added, “has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.”
Though the Intercept story doesn’t confirm that the Larry King caller was indeed Reade’s mother, some biographical details do match up. The caller and Reade’s mother, who died in 2016, lived in San Luis Obispo County in August 1993, and Reade would have just left Biden’s office around the time of the call. Reade told the Intercept in previous interviews that her mother had called into the Larry King Show, though she couldn’t recall the date.
Hours after the Intercept published its report, the conservative Media Research Group published a clip of the episode in question; Reade confirmed to Holly Otterbein of Politico that she could hear her mother’s voice.
It is not necessary to prove it in a court of law. It is the court of public opinion that matters.
You showed us who you are with post #2: “I despise Biden, but this dingbat has all the credibility of a Gloria Allred client.” Filth like you are free to stink up FR, but don’t expect to run your sh!t unspoken from here out, tool.
Yep. Cancelled her Fox News interview. She’s a mess. Pisses me off!!!
Total BS!!!!
Ok....that sounds more reasonable....
Thanks — especially in light of the crap I’ve taken here from others on this thread. LOL.
Polygraphs for both of them on 60 minutes! Do it!
Who ever said Biden raped her? Certainly not Reade. The allegation is not sexual harassment. Biden is accused of forcing her against a wall and inserting his fingers into her vagina. This is sexual molestation
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By any definition, that is rape.
She didn’t claim rape then. She now says she was penetrated. That’s called rape. Was she wrong then? Or is she wrong now?
She’s loony tunes. I still say, if you didn’t go to the police and file a report, you made your decision so shut up.
Most Democrats are, guess you’re with them. Joe clearly is a sexual predator.
Read this article from April 2019. We've known for a year that she didn't include the serious allegation.
-PJ
‘this dingbat has all the credibility of a Gloria Allred client.’
looks that way...but Joe’s a classic horndog nonetheless...
The definition of rape in 1993 was different from what it is now.
Rape definition: unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against a person's will or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception
From law.com: ) n. the crime of sexual intercourse (with actual penetration of a woman's vagina with the man's penis) without consent and accomplished through force, threat of violence or intimidation (such as a threat to harm a woman's child, husband or boyfriend).
From DOJ: January 6, 2012 The following post appears courtesy of Susan B. Carbon, Director of the Office on Violence Against Women. In a victory for survivors of rape and their advocates, the Attorney General announced a newly revised definition of rape for nationwide data collection, ensuring that rape will be more accurately reported nationwide.
“The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
Sexual assault:Generally, sexual assault is defined as unwanted sexual contact. The National Center for Victims of Crime states:
Sexual assault takes many forms including attacks such as rape or attempted rape, as well as any unwanted sexual contact or threats. Usually a sexual assault occurs when someone touches any part of another person's body in a sexual way, even through clothes, without that person's consent.
In the United States, the definition of sexual assault varies widely among the individual states. However, in most states sexual assault occurs when there is lack of consent from one of the individuals involved. Consent must take place between two adults who are not incapacitated and can change during any time during the sexual act.
IMO the definition of rape held by most people is "the crime of sexual intercourse (with actual penetration of a woman's vagina with the man's penis)." I have never heard Reade or the reporters who have covered her say that she was raped. As Hillary Clinton said, "At this point, what difference does it make?"
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