Can you admit some of those accusations against Trump are pretty silly. Is kissing someone as a greeting sexual assault? Is LOOKING at women a crime?
If you greet someone (Trump) by eating Tic Tacs and shoving your tongue down their throat - Yes, that's a crime.
Here are a few the problems with Tara Reade. Problems of this magnitude are not evident with the 26 who have credibly accused Dear Leader.
A number of those who crossed paths with Biden’s accuser say they remember two things: She spoke favorably about her time working for Biden, and she left them feeling duped.
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Reade told me that she wanted me to think of this story as being about abuse of power, “but not sexual misconduct.” Her emphasis was on how she was treated in Biden’s office by Senate aides, who she said retaliated against her for complaining about how Biden touched her in meetings. “I don’t know if [Biden] knew why I left,” she said. “He barely knew us by name.”
I started reporting on Tara Reade’s story a year ago. Here’s what I found, and where I’m stuck.
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Tara Reade suffers from a believability problem. Over the years she has
favorably tweeted about Biden on numerous occasions, her story has repeatedly changed, only becoming
more serious after Biden’s big win on Super Tuesday, and she has select amnesia in a way that makes it impossible for Biden to refute her accusation by proving he was somewhere else when the alleged incident took place. She also has a history of financial difficulties including accusations she stole from a
horse rescue. Stranger still, the
description of her assault bears an uncanny resemblance to a scene in a novel by her late father.
Then, in a hagiographic
essay on Medium, Reade enthused about her admiration for the Russian president: “President Putin has an alluring combination of strength with gentleness. His sensuous image projects his love for life, the embodiment of grace while facing adversity. It is evident that he loves his country, his people and his job.” Really, who does this?
The #MeToo hashtag, which surged in 2017 following sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, spawned companion hashtags such as #BelieveSurvivors. These two hashtags are particularly notable because the first served to highlight how pervasive sexual...
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As Tara Reade was leaving her job at Joe Biden's Senate office in 1993, she told a close colleague that she believed she was being let go for an unfair reason -- that she was being terminated because of a medical issue she had been dealing with.
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