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Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who has alleged she was sexually assaulted by former Vice President Joe Biden, told The Associated Press that the complaint she filed 27 years ago did not explicitly accuse the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexual harassment or assault.
Reade told the AP on Friday I know that I was too scared to write about the sexual assault.
Reade, who previously said she filed a sexual harassment complaint against Biden, said uncomfortable was the main word she used in her complaint and noted she was fearful of retaliation. Reade said she intended to report the harassment and assault but chickened out.
She did not formally report the alleged sexual assault until April of this year, when she filed a police report in Washington, D.C., so any previous documents likely wont produce evidence related to the assault allegation itself.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/495815-tara-reade-says-biden-complaint-was-limited-i-know-i-was-too-scared-to
OK - her 15 minutes of fame (or infamy) is over.
Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)This woman changes her story literally every day!
Cha
(297,323 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Except in very few instances, legit people don't use multiple aliases.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)Not the one in 1993. Too bad the press/ media didn't vet her stories before trying to smear him.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)That's when she changed her story.
There never was a complaint. Or, at least, nobody has shown that any complaint even exists.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,143 posts)hope like in some jurisdictions (maybe all) that if a false claim of abuse is made, the authorities will go after those making the false claims. Have to be consequences in any and all 'abuse' claims.
mzmolly
(50,996 posts)after Biden said to release any complaints is it relates.
peggysue2
(10,832 posts)She wasn't credible with the first version of her story and she's not credible now. In fact, the narrative is blowing up. The smear merchants don't care. Anything to cast doubt and confusion is what they're after, anything to shave Biden's poll numbers down.
I've said earlier, things are going to get very ugly for Tara Reade because her new found friends will abandon her once she's out lived her usefulness.
It's the problem when you crawl into a nest of snakes; they're likely to turn on you.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)VP Biden: One highly questionable claim of some kind of inappropriate behavior. The claimant has serious credibility issues. The accused has decades of public service and has been transparent in all facets of his life and career.
Trump: Dozens of women who have credible claims of abuse by a man who publicly confessed to his treatment of women. He denies all the claims, calls his accusers liars and worse, threatens lawsuits, prevents witnesses from testifying, withholds evidence and lies every single day.
Gosh, why is it so hard to see the difference between these two men?