AP Exclusive: Harassment, assault absent in Biden complaint
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, says she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment.
I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable, Reade said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. I know that I was too scared to write about the sexual assault.
Reade said she described her issues with Biden but the main word I used and I know I didnt use sexual harassment I used uncomfortable. And I remember retaliation.
Reade described the report after the AP discovered additional transcripts and notes from its interviews with Reade last year in which she says she chickened out after going to the Senate personnel office. The AP interviewed Reade in 2019 after she accused Biden of uncomfortable and inappropriate touching. She did not raise allegations of sexual assault against Biden until this year, around the time he became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Read more: https://apnews.com/aec7beb03e9e0e0e6e3c58111293e0ea
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Bye Felicia.
grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)they would have it in their archives. Asshole mcturtle knows that. So where is it??????
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)would have found it when they vetted Biden for vice president.
No way President Obama would have chosen him if that was in Bidens records when he was vetted. Also, why didnt she bring it up in 2008 if it was true? Guess she was to busy conning other people at the time.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)is for the best in the long run. Then the next time republicans trot out another alleged victim, people will be less likely to take it seriously and hopefully the media won't give it so much exposure.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)PatSeg
(47,501 posts)with these grifters. Fortunately, they really aren't very good at this crap.
Budi
(15,325 posts)"I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty"
Thats NOT how she stated it YESTERDAY, ffs.
Thought it had to do with her husband Tate?.
Nothing to do with the bs story she's giving.
Is this Russian speaking Reade or English speaking Reade?
She was a junior staffer in the Senate.
Yet also claims to "know how America plans to bring Russia to its knees", ..because she once "worked in the Senate"
Junior staffers are not privy to that kind of information.
So today its, he liked he legs wtf. Someone needs a gag order.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Don't play twit or Facesmash,understand the GRU has thousands of Bots pumping this story.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)This story doesnt have legs. (See what i did there?)
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)cstanleytech
(26,297 posts)was running for the VP spot with Obama or before when he was in the Senate? Granted, some of it could be because she was afraid but to be honest I just do not buy it though of course it is possible.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)All they (bannon, russkies, etc.) have to do is get it in the news enough that low-information voters start to think Biden is the same as credibly documented long-term assaulter red don.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Same shit, different election. Bill Clinton had highways shut down for his sex capades, Obama wasn't a US citizen, Hillary and her kiddy sex slave ring. And like clockwork here we go with the Biden BS.
This woman is a 100% fake and a nut job and will be easily proven to be such.
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)to level the moral playing field by dirtying up Joe with "but he did too".
azureblue
(2,146 posts)I have when I see these posts is to post what Trump has actually done, and asking the poster why he / she ignores that. Then a warning that Trump has a lot of skeletons in his closet, way beyond the crimes he has already committed and Mike Bloomberg knows where they are from Trump's NYC days. And every time they throw a lie at Biden, we will throw ten documented Trump crimes back in their faces.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)That would explain her support for Russia and Putin over the last couple of years when previously she had been pretty anti-Russia. It would also explain why she suddenly "remembered" this assault that she'd never mentioned, even when she was praised Joe Biden for his positions on protecting women.
Who else has done a complete turn around on Russia and other issues that favor Russian interests? Lots of Republicans, I believe.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)You know where this is leading multiple stories.
A limited report, I don't think so
She was a staff intern, she thought she was too good to be asked to serve drinks.
Retaliation, how so asked to empty the waste paper baskets.
The is a picture of her and Joe floating around, I think she had said she had one.
Remember this is 1993 the laws were strengthen under title VII
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Historic NY
(37,451 posts)went back you are correct.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)That crap has always been highly problematic when it came to white women calling the cops on Black people for simply being within their proximity. It creates life or death scenarios out of nothing and these same women usually come off being aggressive and confrontational.
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)When she asked to serve drinks.
However, despite the differentiations in outcomes, I can see that same comfort/safety mechanism being applied here.
It can be highly problematic is a lot of ways, as we see here, whenever white women are put into situations where they feel uncomfortable. That's a direct outcome of the white privilege dynamic that has existed in this country since day one. These days, other than it just being limited to race, its expanded exponentially.
If a white woman feels uncomfortable about some situation she finds herself in in this country, you better believe that she's going to make that matter known.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)It should be "Reade Now Says Her Complaint didn't include X.."
Neither the AP nor anyone else has been able to locate an actual complaint. She's changing her story now to match what she told the AP last year, which may or may not correspond to any actual complaint, since none has been found.
weissmam
(905 posts)and what name is she using this week
creeksneakers2
(7,473 posts)She claimed she was demoted and fired for filing a sexual harassment claim. So that was a lie.
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)She has changed her story so many times its clear she has fabricated the whole thing.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Harry Walpurgisnacht
(78 posts)Oy!
nykym
(3,063 posts)she has been seen entering the offices of Project Veritas?