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Democrats too busy to cover the allegations against Joe Biden.
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‘I Was Just Hoping to Get a Fair and Equal Treatment’: Tara Reade Calls Out Democrats’ ‘Me Too’ Double Standard
By JACK CROWE April 29, 2020 6:30 AM NATIONAL REVIEW As someone who spent her career working for Democratic politicians and advocating liberal causes, Tara Reade was shocked by the treatment she’s received from her co-partisans since publicly accusing Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her when she worked as a staff assistant in his office in 1993. Reade, 56, claims that in the spring or summer of 1993, a senior staffer told her to meet Biden in a Capitol corridor to deliver a duffel bag. While there, she says, Biden forced her against the wall and penetrated her with his fingers. She first made the allegation during a podcast with political reporter Katie Halper last month and has since described the alleged ordeal in interviews with the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Business Insider. Reade told National Review in a Tuesday phone interview that, since coming forward, she’s been subjected to “shocking” treatment from those she had expected to come to her aid: the very people who championed a woman’s “right” to be believed during the Kavanaugh confirmation episode two years prior, which Reade confirmed she followed at the time. Biden’s guilt has by no means been established. But the candidate himself has yet to be asked about the allegation at all — despite sitting for interviews with a host of prominent reporters over the past month. His campaign spokeswoman has re-upped a single categorical denial when asked for comment following each new development. Two women, one a former neighbor and the other a former coworker, recently told Business Insider that Reade described the incident in separate conversations two years after it allegedly occurred. Reade’s brother and one friend have also said she told them about the assault soon after it happened. But other former Biden staffers, including several that Reade says she had told about the incident, have denied her account. read more Whiskey Politics with Dave SussmanDave Sussman of Whiskey Politics catches up with the latest
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