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The Times interviewed Ms. Reade on multiple days over hours, those she told about Mr. Bidens behavior and friends, the lead reporter on the story tweeted Sunday. The Times also interviewed lawyers who spoke to Ms. Reade; nearly 24 people who worked with Mr. Biden in the 1990s and 7 women who criticized Mr. Biden last year.
No other allegation about sexual assault surfaced in the course of reporting, nor did any former Biden staff members corroborate any details of Ms. Reades allegation, she added. The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden.
The Times does admit that Reade made contemporaneous complaints about the assault to friends, and that she didnt simply discover that shed been assaulted by Biden in the last several months or years, as Bidens name surfaced as a potential presidential contender. In fact, the Times does go out of its way to catalog Reades claims, made several times over the course of several years not dissimilar claims made against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by a former high school classmate.
A friend said that Ms. Reade told her about the alleged assault at the time, in 1993, the Times reports. A second friend recalled Ms. Reade telling her in 2008. Ms. Reade said she also told her brother, who has confirmed parts of her account publicly and her mother, who has since died.
That should give the Times pause after all, it all but declared Brett Kavanaugh guilty of sexual assault over a similar, largely unsubstantiated claim last year. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, in contrast, did not make any contemporanous reports of her assault, and the only friend who had any recollection of high school summer parties with Kavanaugh and his friends, a woman by the name of Leyland Keyser, said she remembered nothing.
Instead, the Times goes out of its way not just to clear Joe Biden of responsibility in Reades incident but in all incidents, in a shocking statement.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)wryter2000
(46,051 posts)I'd like to know.
Aristus
(66,381 posts)and telling everyone how much he likes beer...
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)will make me burst into tears.
Go Joe!
Hekate
(90,714 posts)I guess beneath that genial decent family-man exterior is... a genial decent family-man.
Cha
(297,280 posts)Walleye
(31,028 posts)Hard to keep secrets in a state that is basically a big small town.
Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)I was thrilled when Obama picked him for VP. I've watched his career for I don't know how long and I've also been a fan Dr Biden. So I feel very confident to say that this woman is so full of shite it's a wonder that she can see.
I actually feel so sorry for her and I hope someone gets her help, God knows she needs it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the Republican-electing MSM, our own corrupted right wing, and hostile foreign nations. Their anti-Democratic Party synergy continues.
For all but one it has nothing to do with electing Sanders president, and for him, it's demonstrated many times over not to be only about that. He would have done so much better if he'd had the self discipline needed to attract rather than appall and disgust people of good sense and principle.