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The lawyer who oversaw the vetting of @JB for @Obama tells us: "This kind of complaint.. not just TR (Original Post) Cha May 2020 OP
Can't prove a negative. LakeArenal May 2020 #1
Yes she is.. and doesn't care. Cha May 2020 #6
K & R! Iliyah May 2020 #2
Mahalo, Iliyah! Cha May 2020 #9
This! mcar May 2020 #3
KNR niyad May 2020 #4
Whomp, there it is! oasis May 2020 #5
I mean that was pretty obvious qazplm135 May 2020 #7
A Berniebrat is trying to push this: LW1977 May 2020 #10
The easiest problem with that... qazplm135 May 2020 #12
Tara Reade's excuse for not coming forward back in 2008 alp227 May 2020 #17
Why was Tara Reade Praising Biden in 2017, then.. Multiple times? Cha May 2020 #20
If "protect my teenage daughter" is the best excuse she can come up with MH1 May 2020 #23
Yes, it was pointed out yesterday and before many Cha May 2020 #18
As said earlier, Biden could shoot tRump on 5th Ave. and he wouldn't lose my support ffr May 2020 #8
You're Welome, ffr.. Thank you! Bonus Tweet.. Cha May 2020 #15
"He was going to die anyway, and we must all accept some deaths to help boost the economy" struggle4progress May 2020 #21
Of course I agree. panader0 May 2020 #11
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. dalton99a May 2020 #13
Yes it, dalton.. sigh.. Cha May 2020 #24
Obama pushed out Van Jones because he was a "truther" Yavin4 May 2020 #14
Excellent point Chs grantcart May 2020 #16
I wish this discussion would end. brer cat May 2020 #19
Kick! Hekate May 2020 #22

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)
7. I mean that was pretty obvious
Fri May 1, 2020, 10:11 PM
May 2020

after 8 years.

I think it's pretty clear no other assault claims are going to come out.

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)
12. The easiest problem with that...
Fri May 1, 2020, 11:17 PM
May 2020

she's related to the right wing person (O'Donnell) who was fighting an uphill battle against him in an election literally at that very moment, and neither she nor the adult with her (who I would assume is also either related or favorable to I'm not a witch) thought to tell Christine about it?

Really?

Come on.

He told a 14 year old she had a nice rack in front of a crowded group of people?

It's silliness.

alp227

(32,034 posts)
17. Tara Reade's excuse for not coming forward back in 2008
Fri May 1, 2020, 11:50 PM
May 2020

was in order to shield her teenage daughter from the attention. Perhaps this girl's mother also felt that way.

Biden's alleged words were that the girl was "well endowed" - not very explicit but a bad enough choice of words to be a double entendre.

Imagine if O'Donnell knew about this supposed incident and unleashed it during the 2010 Senate race. Unbelievable with all those conservative witch hunts on the birth certificate, Benghazi, and everything else they weren't able to find these incidents about Biden.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
20. Why was Tara Reade Praising Biden in 2017, then.. Multiple times?
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:33 AM
May 2020


In 2017 Alexandra Tara Reade Praised Joe Biden for Helping End Sexual Assault.

In 2017 Alexandra Tara Reade praised Joe Biden for his action in helping stop sexual assault, not just once, but on multiple occasions.

Between September of 2016 and May of 2017, Alexander Tara Reade used a Twitter account, under the name Tara McCabe, to spread praise of Joe Biden via tweeting, retweeting and liking various Tweets.

There are multiple examples of this, as seen below:
In the below instance, Reade retweeted a tweet by Margaret Cho that appears to commend Joe Biden for working with Lady Gaga to end sexual assault.

More~
https://medium.com/eddiekrassenstein/evidence-casts-doubt-on-tara-reades-sexual-assault-allegations-of-joe-biden-e4cb3ee38460

MH1

(17,600 posts)
23. If "protect my teenage daughter" is the best excuse she can come up with
Sat May 2, 2020, 10:41 AM
May 2020

for letting this go ... when Biden was one heartbeat from the Presidency at the time (once the ticket won) ... and if she feels so strongly about the need to take him down ...

Fuck her. Sorry. Other people should matter too. I get that someone is going to care more about their own children. But if she really believed her own story about Biden, and believes it still matters SO much when he is in his 70's (really? what is he going to do along these lines if elected?) ... then HOW THE FUCK does she get off, cowering over having to maybe have an adult discussion with a teenager ...versus the potential harm to others of letting him get away with it? And now, she wants to throw the election to Trump ... because she feels her right to justice is more important than the right of others, especially millions of women, to medical care and a cleaner (ok less dirty) environment, and maybe better worker protections, and on and on?

FUCK HER. If one iota of this is real - and I don't believe it is, at least not involving Joe Biden - she needs to find her ovaries and take one for the team. She needs to own that she didn't get this resolved earlier and the opportunity is gone, at least for now. How fucking hard is that to understand, for an adult? Life isn't fair. Deal with it and move on. Don't drag other people down with you because you are incapable of controlling your own reaction to a traumatic event. (Does she not even realize how many other people she is hurting besides taking down her alleged abuser? Is she that stupid, or is she just a Russian/Trump asset?)

That excuse "I didn't want to have an adult discussion with my teenager, even if I let other people be exposed to this man in power" is SO fucking weak it is insulting.

But the whole story is weak. And the people pushing it don't give a shit that it's weak, they (the faction on the "left" ) have some fantasy that hurting Biden now will let them install Sanders* as the Dem nominee, which is total and complete fantasy, beyond being a horrible idea and totally stomping on all the primary voters who voted for Biden (most of whom still would, because they know TR's story is b.s.).

* Sanders - yes that Sanders of the "rape fantasy" story he wrote ... clearly available on the internet, definitely his. Not definitely a "rape fantasy" in my opinion ... but close enough. If TR's b.s. flies, so will the Sanders "rape fantasy" b.s. So, no, no competent organization would appoint Sanders at the head of the ticket, except by overwhelming vote majority (not happening) or gunpoint.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
18. Yes, it was pointed out yesterday and before many
Fri May 1, 2020, 11:56 PM
May 2020

times here, I did, too.. and now we have William Jeffress.. one of Pres Obama's lawyers who was Vetting Joe Biden, speaking to it..

William Jeffress, a lawyer who headed the vetting of Biden during Barack Obama’s vice-presidential search, said he oversaw a team of nearly 10 lawyers who spent nearly two months digging through records and interviewing dozens of people about Biden. He said Reade’s name never came up, so they never spoke with her.

“This kind of complaint — not just Tara Reade, but any kind of complaint about Senator Biden on sexual harassment — never came up,” he said. “We just never had an occasion to interview anyone on an accusation like this because we found no such accusation.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-denies-he-sexually-assaulted-a-former-senate-aide/2020/05/01/08d59662-8b39-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html

ffr

(22,670 posts)
8. As said earlier, Biden could shoot tRump on 5th Ave. and he wouldn't lose my support
Fri May 1, 2020, 10:41 PM
May 2020

He's squeaky clean and he's going to make a terrific leader of the free world.

TY, Cha!

panader0

(25,816 posts)
11. Of course I agree.
Fri May 1, 2020, 11:15 PM
May 2020

And though it's widely off topic I am interested in your surf photos.
The one on the left looks like the Pipeline on a really good day.
I have always thought the one on the right was you in Kauai?
Just curious if you want to share.
I surfed the Pipeline long ago but it wasn't nearly that big.
I preferred the South Shore.

dalton99a

(81,516 posts)
13. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Fri May 1, 2020, 11:21 PM
May 2020

This smear campaign against a good man is despicable.


brer cat

(24,578 posts)
19. I wish this discussion would end.
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:22 AM
May 2020

This has been known from the beginning: Obama would never have picked Biden if there was a hint of scandal in his background.

Thanks for posting, Cha.

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