Washington Post's editorial board calls on Biden to address the Tara Reade allegation

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TARA READE deserves to be heard, and voters deserve to hear her. They deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too.

The former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has yet to speak publicly about the allegation Ms. Reade has lodged against him: that when she was a member of his Senate staff in the 1990s, Mr. Biden pushed her against a wall and put his fingers up her skirt and then inside her. Mr. Biden’s campaign says “this never happened.” Contemporaneous accounts of Ms. Reade’s claim are counterweighted by the denials of her superiors at the time that she reported any misconduct, as well as inconsistencies in her retelling.

There are, at the moment, no clear conclusions. There may never be. But that is no excuse for not searching. One place to start is the records covering Mr. Biden’s 36-year Senate career, donated to the University of Delaware in 2012 and slated for release to the public two years after Mr. Biden “retires from public life.” These could contain confirmation of any complaint Ms. Reade made, either through official congressional channels or to the three other employees she claims she informed not specifically of the alleged assault but more generally of harassment. They could also contain nothing of the sort. Insisting on an inventory doesn’t mean one believes Ms. Reade or doesn’t believe her. It signals only a desire for the public to know all that’s able to be known, which ought to be in everyone’s interest.

There are 1,875 boxes and 415 gigabytes of electronic content, largely uncatalogued. Searching won’t be as easy as some might assume. But an inventory conducted with an eye toward releasing only relevant material could at least ascertain whether personnel records are part of this archive at all. Demands for the release of the entire trove invite a worthwhile debate about candidate disclosures, yet that’s not a battle that needs to be fought today. The narrower question is whether the public ought to have as much information as possible about an assault accusation against a presidential contender, and the answer is yes.

Another place to look is at the source: the candidate himself. Mr. Biden may have little to say besides what his campaign has already said — that he did not do this, and that this is not something he ever would do. Yet the way to signal he takes Ms. Reade’s case seriously, and the cases of women like her seriously, is to go before the media and the public ready to listen and to reply.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...a36694-8a45-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html
 
Good to hear. Dems need to walk the walk here.

She deserves to be heard, and the other evidence as well. This shouldn't be treated any differently than the accusations against Kavanaugh or Trump.
 
It should be investigated and they should be calling for one of Kavanaugh as well because that was a sham and disgrace of a bogus investigation.
 
Bernie Bruhs put a political hit on Dementia Joe.

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All the anti-Kavanaugh #metoo haters are silent on the credible and more serious accusation against Biden. Why should creepy Dementia Joe address the accusations when the media and entire Democrat party (outside of Burnie's Brownshirts) are giving him a full pass?
 
Good to hear. Dems need to walk the walk here.

She deserves to be heard, and the other evidence as well. This shouldn't be treated any differently than the accusations against Kavanaugh or Trump.

The new hashtag should be pound metooJoe
 
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[FONT=&quot]►Missing formal complaint. Reade told The Times she filed a written complaint against Biden with the Senate personnel office. But The Times could not find any complaint. When The Times asked Reade for a copy of the complaint, she said she did not have it.

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[FONT=&quot]The lie about losing her job. Reade told The Union that Biden wanted her to serve drinks at an event. After she refused, "she felt pushed out and left Biden's employ," the newspaper said last April. But Reade claimed this month in her Times interview that after she filed a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate personnel office, she faced retaliation and was firedby Biden’s chief of staff.
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[FONT=&quot]Leaving a job after refusing to serve drinks at a Biden fundraiser is vastly different than being fired as retaliation for filing a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate. The disparity raises questions about Reade’s credibility and account of events.
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[FONT="][COLOR=#626262]►Missing formal complaint. [/COLOR]Reade told The Times she filed a written complaint against Biden with the Senate personnel office. But The Times could not find any complaint. When The Times asked Reade for a copy of the complaint, [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html"]she said she did not have it[/URL].

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[FONT="][COLOR=#626262]The lie about losing her job. [/COLOR]Reade[COLOR=#626262] [/COLOR]told The Union that Biden wanted her to serve drinks at an event. After she refused, "[URL="https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/nevada-county-woman-says-joe-biden-inappropriately-touched-her-while-working-in-his-u-s-senate-office/"]she felt pushed out and left Biden's employ," [/URL]the newspaper said last April. But Reade claimed this month in her Times interview that after she filed a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate personnel office, she faced retaliation and was firedby Biden’s chief of staff.
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[FONT="]Leaving a job after refusing to serve drinks at a Biden fundraiser is vastly different than being fired as retaliation for filing a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate. The disparity raises questions about Reade’s credibility and account of events.
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Even when her mother called into the Larry King Show in the 90's, the mother said Tara was trying to protect Plugs from the scandal.

:dunno:
 
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