I believe in the idea / ideal that all who are accused are "innocent until proven guilty" in all but one respect.
If a person actually does commit a crime against another, they are in REALITY - guilty of the act, even before the allegation is made.
That said, I do not know where the TRUTH or reality actually is in this case any more than I did with Blasey Ford and her allegations against Kavanaugh.
Biden said in Ford's case “Women are to be believed, given the benefit of the doubt, as they come forward and say something that is that they said happened to them,"
In my opinion, Tara Reade is completely entitled to be given the "benefit of the doubt" based not only on Biden's own words but also based on the fact that she went the extra mile in actually filing a police report in her case.
In Joe Biden's case, he deserves as much a presumption of "innocence" as Tara Reade is to be given her "benefit of the doubt."
They can not BOTH be right.
Biden started off looking as convincing as he could have possibly could and then slowly lost some of his plausible deniability as the interview progressed.
I can not say which one I absolutely believe at this point. However, it seems that the severity of the allegations alone - should be sufficient to create at least some level of skepticism about Biden's claims of transparency and also about his defense.
I agree with Biden on one thing.
The TRUTH is what matters, here.