Accusing 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat Party presumptive nominee Joe Biden of digital rape while working as a 22-year-old aid for Biden in 1993, 48-year-old Tara Reade now faces a backlash for coming out of the closet with her sexual assault story. While Biden’s campaign has denied the charges, Reade finds herself as many other rape victims with so-called #MeToo Movement sympathizers taking sides largely for political reasons. Democrats all agree on getting rid of Trump in 2020, believing, among the large group of Democrat candidates, 22 to be precise, that only Biden has a shot of beating 73-year-old President Donald Trump. Biden’s closest Democrat rival, 78-year-old Bernie Sanders, found out the hard way after impressive wins in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, that Democrat voters concluded that only Biden had a shot of beating Trump in November.
Now Reade makes what are shocking, horrifying accusations about the former Senator and Vice President, who’s spent his career fighting for women’s rights, though his conduct heading the Judiciary Committee Oct. 11, 1991 defending allegations of sexual harassment against Supreme Court Associate Justice Terence Thomas left much desired. Biden sided with Thomas’s lead GOP defender Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) discrediting Hill. Hill, now 63, has spent her career defending her reputation after getting trashed in the Senate to approve Thomas as Supreme Court Associate Justice. Now the tables are turned, with Biden in the hot seat, not knowing yet how to proceed with Reade’s accusations. Unlike Hill where there was scant evidence of her sharing stories with other witnesses, there are plenty of friends Reade told her story at the time Biden’s campaign all read the same talking points, that Reade is entitled to her experience.
A former neighbor of Reade in Morro Bay Lynda LaCasse recalls Read telling her in 1996 about her story of Biden raping her digitally while working for the Senator in 1993. She complained that her career was ruined after filing a complaint, swiftly given her walking papers by Biden’s staff handling personnel matters. “I do remember her telling me that Joe Biden had put her up against a wall and put his hands up her skirt and put his fingers inside her,” LaCasse said. Public records show that Reade and LaCasse were neighbors in the 1990s. Another former co-worker in the California State Assembly Lorraine Sanchez also recalled Rreade telling her she was sexually harassed by her former boss in Washington. Reade’s mother in 1993 called the Larry King Show, sharing her daughter’s experience of having “problems” working in Washington, not naming Tara or Biden, nor did she go into any detail.
Reade said today that she’s willing to take a lie detector test or testify under oath or in any House of Senate Committee. “Vice President Biden has dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence against women. He authored and fought for the pass and reauthorization of the landmark Violence Against Women Act. He firmly believes that women have a right to be heard—and heard respectfully. Such claims should be diligently reviewed by and independent press. What is clear about this claim: It is untrue. This absolutely id not happen,” said Biden’s deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield. Bedingfied’s statement has been parroted by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former Democrat governor candidate Stacy Abrams (D-Ga.), all backing Biden.
Closing ranks to back Biden shows that whatever support Democrat elected officials give to the #MeToo Movement, it only applies to the Republican Party. No one can forget the vehement opposition Democrat Party officials to the nomination to the Supreme Court of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh was accused of attempted rape July 20, 2018 in a letter to Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) by 53-year-old Christine Blaséy Ford who said she was 15-years-of-age when Kavanaught assaulted her in some murky location in suburban Washinton, some 35 years before. Kavanugh categorically denied the charges. But the entire Democrat Party caucus, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said they “believed Dr. Ford,” including former Vice President Joe Biden. Those same Democrats that believed Ford in 2018 now disbelieve Tara Reade in 2020.
Calling Democrats out for utter hypocrisy when it comes to Biden, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expressed the irony. “At the very leas, it’s pretty obvious that the same people who were outraged about allegations—unproven allegations against Justice Kavanaugh when he was in high school—seemed to have little or no interest, or certainly not as much interest in suggestions of improper behavior by an adult who’s in the Senate,” McConnell said. When you look at the mental gymnastics to defend Biden, it’s astonishing. Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a former Democrat presidential candidate, readily hounded former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) from office Jan. 2, 2018 over far less allegations. “I believe that women deserve to be heard and I believe they need to be listened to . . . “ said Abrams, sticking with Biden now that she’s on his VP short-list.
