Tara Reade, a former staffer in Joe Biden’s Senate office who has accused him of sexual assault, on Thursday called for Biden to drop his presidential bid.
This is news? Why is it on TPM? Trying to stir up those #MeToo people who claim that all allegations by women must be believed? They are trying to be the death of the Democratic Party, and I am sorry that TPM is assisting them.
This makes me wonder if there has been a real incident here, or a confabulated incident, and whether or not there is some ongoing under-the-table compensation to keep this going as a distraction while undermining a political opponent.
She makes herself look politically motivated
Who’s advising her? What’s next? Maybe she can endorse Trump because she doesn’t know for a fact that Trump is a rapist, but she knows Biden is one.
Reade’s former neighbor, a former colleague, and her brother have said that Reade shared aspects of her allegations with them in the 90s.
“This happened, and I know it did because I remember talking about it,” Reade’s former neighbor Lynda LaCasse told Business Insider.
But nothing about the NYT investigation which included interviews with several people who had no recollection of any of it? Nothing about Reade’s changing story? Nothing about how the senate complaint, Reade tells us recently, includes no mention of assault or harassment?
We may never know exactly what happened. The best we can do is to present all of the available evidence. If Reade’s brother and neighbor are credible sources of evidence, then so are Biden’s employees and associates at the time.
Having lied about the nature of any ‘report’ she may have filed and with her history of lying to gain sympathy or gains or for revenge this woman has no credibility left.
This pattern with.a different woman seems more likely: