Politics
The Washington Post editorial board on Wednesday stated former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat governmental nominee, need to attend to accusations of sexual assault brought versus him by previous Senate staffer Tara Reade and release documents connecting to the supposed incident.
The Post’s editorial board composes:
TARA READE is worthy of to be heard, and citizens deserve to hear her. They deserve to hear from Joe Biden, too.
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One place to start is the records covering Mr. Biden’s 36- year Senate career, donated to the University of Delaware in 2012 and slated for release to the general public 2 years after Mr. Biden “retires from public life.”
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The narrower question is whether the general public should have as much details as possible about an attack accusation against a presidential contender, and the response is yes.
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Another place to look is at the source: the candidate himself. Mr. Biden may have little to state besides what his project has already stated– that he did refrain from doing this, and that this is not something he ever would do. Yet the way to indicate he takes Ms. Reade’s case seriously, and the cases of women like her seriously, is to precede the media and the public prepared to listen and to reply.
Reade, a former staff assistant to Biden, alleges that the then-senator sexually attacked her while the two remained in the basement of a Capitol Hill complex in 1993.
” He was whispering to me and attempting to kiss me at the very same time, and he was saying, ‘Do you wish to go somewhere else?'” Reade stated in a current interview with the Associated Press. “I keep in mind desiring to say stop, but I don’t understand if I stated it out loud or if I just believed it. I was type of frozen up.”
Reade alleges she moved away from Biden, who then responded: “begun, man, I heard you liked me.”
Although Biden has yet to personally resolve the claims, Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign supervisor, has actually vehemently denied the claims.
” Vice President Biden has actually dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence versus ladies. He authored and defended the passage and reauthorization of the landmark Violence Versus Women Act,” Bedingfield stated earlier April. “He strongly believes that women have a right to be heard– and heard respectfully. Such claims need to also be diligently examined by an independent press. What is clear about this claim: it is incorrect. This absolutely did not take place.”
The Post’s editorial follows a New York Times spokesperson stated the Biden project misrepresented their reporting by falsely claiming that the paper had actually stated Reade’s incident imaginary.
” As Buzzfeed properly reported, our story discovered three former Senate aides whom Reade stated she complained to contemporaneously, all of whom either did not remember the event or stated that it did not take place,” the Times said.
A New York Times representative says Biden campaign talking points “incorrectly” recommend that the Times investigation found that Tara Reade’s accusation “did not take place.” Action to this scoop from @rubycramer @RosieGray https://t.co/ZUD6f2WSEE pic.twitter.com/LNaHvH0ZxF
— Jonathan Easley (@JonEasley) April 29, 2020
” The story also consisted of previous interns who remembered Reade unexpectedly altering roles and no longer managing them, which happened during the same time period that Reade stated she was quickly reassigned,” the statement included. “The Times also spoke to a pal who stated Reade informed her the information of the allegation at the time; another good friend and Reade’s bro say she told them of a distressing sexual incident including Biden.”
The Biden project’s effort to coordinate a denial of Reade’s allegations comes after Lynda LaCasse, a former neighbor to Reade, said the two discussed her alleged accusation versus Biden between 1995 and 1996.
” I remember her saying, here was this individual that she was working for and she admired him,” LaCasse told Service Expert in an interview released Monday. “And he kind of put her up against a wall. And he put his hand up her skirt and he put his fingers inside her. She seemed like she was attacked, and she truly didn’t feel there was anything she could do.”
” She was crying,” LaCasse continued. “She was disturbed. And the more she spoke about it, the more she began sobbing. I keep in mind stating that she needed to submit an authorities report.”
” I do not keep in mind all the information,” she included. “I remember the skirt. I remember the fingers. I remember she was ravaged.”
LaCasse, a Biden advocate, is the very first person to corroborate Reade’s claims.