Joe Biden, asked on @Morning_Joe if he sexually assaulted Tara Reade:
“No, it is not true. I’m saying unequivocally it never, never happened. And it didn’t. It never happened.” pic.twitter.com/nXIAdGloG5
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 1, 2020
Courtesy of NYT:
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Friday denied an allegation of sexual assault by a former Senate aide, Tara Reade, his first public remarks about an accusation that has roiled his presidential campaign.
“I recognize my responsibility to be a voice, an advocate, and a leader for the change in culture that has begun but is nowhere near finished,” Mr. Biden wrote in a Medium post. “So I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago. They aren’t true. This never happened.”
Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, also called on the National Archives to release any existing complaint related to the allegation.
In an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, Mr. Biden said of Ms. Reade’s claim, “No, it is not true. I’m saying unequivocally it never, never happened.”
Responding to questions from Mika Brzezinski, the show’s co-host, Mr. Biden said that all women had a right to be heard when they come forward with allegations, and then the facts need to be examined. But he strenuously insisted that in his case, “I assure you it did not happen. Period. Period.”
Amid intensifying scrutiny around the allegation, there have been growing calls for Mr. Biden to release his Senate papers, held at the University of Delaware. In the Medium post, Mr. Biden said that those papers “do not contain personnel files.”
“There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be — the National Archives,” he wrote. “The National Archives is where the records are kept at what was then called the Office of Fair Employment Practices. I am requesting that the Secretary of the Senate ask the Archives to identify any record of the complaint she alleges she filed and make available to the press any such document. If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.”
They have been clamoring for the mainstream media to address these allegations and now they have.
I remain very skeptical of Tara Reade’s story, but she deserves to be heard.
I think at this point it is a given that she is being funded and coached by the Right Wing so I imagine they will push this thing as fat as they possibly can.
Personally I am laser-focused on defeating Donald Trump in 2020.
And Joe Biden is the man to make that happen, all other considerations have to take a backseat to that.
This crap tarted om the Sanders campaign. It has nothing to do with the right wing but the looney left fringe morons who wanted Sanders not Biden. They think if Biden gets railroaded out, Sanders will get the nod. Everyone who is now saying that Reade told them years ago about the sexual assault was coached to say that by Reade or Nathan Robinson.
This kind of accusation worked so well on the reputation of Al Franken, they (Trump’s team) decided to try it again. Well, as far as I’m concerned, this woman can go piss up a rope, and Franken should get back into politics, and Biden and whomever his selected Veep turns out to be can go trample on that malignant fool in the People’s House.
Of course, the place will have to be decontaminated, but I’m sure it can be sparkly and clean in time for the inauguration. And there’s going to be one hell of a crowd for that parade!!!
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
Famous last words.
Worse than the sexual assault charges however, is Biden’s cognitive capacity. He is not going to do well back on the campaign trail when things open up.
And debates? Forget about it. He isn’t going to be able to answer every question with “c’mon man, you know what I mean man”.
Oh, come on man. You want to bring up cognitive capacity, look no further than your orange, shitgibbon hero.
But then, again, maybe up really is down. Hard to discuss facts with an unarmed moron.
Nice try, though.
Now slither back under your rock.
Biden obviously is heading down the dementia/Alzheimers path 11:43. This isn’t a joking thing, it is a reality.
It will not be pretty for anyone watching debates when the confused old man on stage gets angry because he is confused.
And sorry, Trump does not suffer from either, and he is not my hero. Reality is my hero.
Oh right and you have your medical degree from which university, obviously no where since no doctor would make such a stupid remark based on something they saw on tv.
You’ll see 3:59. I don’t make things up because I want to believe them. You dumb asses are so stuck on your politics you never see reality.
I called the last election 6 months in advance and was called all kinds of stupid here, esp by Gryphen. I work for reality, not the other side.
But of course, 5:37 pm, because the fix is already in like it was the last time.
THAT’S the reality.
Why do you spend so much time on a site where people call you stupid? Is trolling that addictive to you?
Sure, Jan.
I’ve known way too many women and men who were sexually assaulted to not take any accusations seriously. However, Tara Reade seems to be all over the place with her accusations, and the fact that she wrote a fawning piece about Putin makes me question her. Let’s see what if anything is in the National Archives, then go from there.
I want to know when Mika and Joe are going to have Trump on again and ask in the same manner and intensity about all the women he assaulted, raped, etc. We are deserve to know, ask him over and over the same question. They sat and giggled when they chit chat about nothing important before Trump installed by Putin(Reade’s heart throb). Obama vetted Biden, if anyone did a thorough job vetting Obama’s team would be the ones. How come this now all comes out when Bernie started losing. Putin does Not want Biden, he wants Bernie. Swift boating is GOPs favorite operative, John Kerry, The Clintons, even one of their own, John McCain regarding his adoptive daughter being his real illegitimate daughter, most recently Obama not being a citizen. I am a woman, history of sexual assault, not disclosed, my choice to live with it and I BELIEVE JOE, I STAND WITH JOE.
Joe and Mika, are you kidding? They gave him more than enough free air time when he was running, kiss kiss, and now they bitch.
Never expalined how the assistant ended up dead in his office.
Complicit, and I don’t give a tinker’s damn what their opinion is.
Use your BRAINS, don’t look for someone else to tell you how to thin, people!.
You’ve been there, Anna, more power to you. Speak your truth!
Also tired of hearing about Tara Reade, Alexandra Tara Reade, Alexandra Moulton, Tara McCabe or whatever name she is using at the time, say she has all these witnesses. None of them WITNESSED what she accused Biden of, they were people who she told her story to, they have no way of knowing it is true other than to make a judgement on their own. We do not know if it was Reade’s mother or Reade herself that made the call to Larry King since her mother is dead and the person did not give a names. Next bring on Trump’s taxes, his Mar a Largo visitor record, disclose all his business deals with foreign countries and lobbyist, I want to know all the shady dealings he is involved in. Mika and Joe ask Trump on your show about all our money he has spent on himself golfing since he said he would not have time to do this. Also disclose how many times a day he gets orders from Putin.
Yeah. Figure this is a Putin style ninja style move. He is going to full full kjb on us this election. Cant loose his pepi la pew.
Didn’t Trump rape and beat that chick in that department store dressing room?
Yeppers
A 12&13 year old too!
#RacistRapist2020
Biden/Duckworth2020