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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBIDEN STATEMENT - post on Medium.com - on the Tara Reade allegations
https://medium.com/JoeBiden/statement-by-vice-president-joe-biden-7a9593bd3012Excerpt:
Responsible news organizations should examine and evaluate the full and growing record of inconsistencies in her story, which has changed repeatedly in both small and big ways.
But this much bears emphasizing.
She has said she raised some of these issues with her supervisor and senior staffers from my office at the time. They both men and a woman have said, unequivocally, that she never came to them and complained or raised issues. News organizations that have talked with literally dozens of former staffers have not found one not one who corroborated her allegations in any way. Indeed, many of them spoke to the culture of an office that would not have tolerated harassment in any way as indeed I would not have.
There is a clear, critical part of this story that can be verified. The former staffer has said she filed a complaint back in 1993. But she does not have a record of this alleged complaint. The papers from my Senate years that I donated to the University of Delaware do not contain personnel files. It is the practice of Senators to establish a library of personal papers that document their public record: speeches, policy proposals, positions taken, and the writing of bills.
There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be the National Archives. The National Archives is where the records are kept at what was then called the Office of Fair Employment Practices. I am requesting that the Secretary of the Senate ask the Archives to identify any record of the complaint she alleges she filed and make available to the press any such document. If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.
But this much bears emphasizing.
She has said she raised some of these issues with her supervisor and senior staffers from my office at the time. They both men and a woman have said, unequivocally, that she never came to them and complained or raised issues. News organizations that have talked with literally dozens of former staffers have not found one not one who corroborated her allegations in any way. Indeed, many of them spoke to the culture of an office that would not have tolerated harassment in any way as indeed I would not have.
There is a clear, critical part of this story that can be verified. The former staffer has said she filed a complaint back in 1993. But she does not have a record of this alleged complaint. The papers from my Senate years that I donated to the University of Delaware do not contain personnel files. It is the practice of Senators to establish a library of personal papers that document their public record: speeches, policy proposals, positions taken, and the writing of bills.
There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be the National Archives. The National Archives is where the records are kept at what was then called the Office of Fair Employment Practices. I am requesting that the Secretary of the Senate ask the Archives to identify any record of the complaint she alleges she filed and make available to the press any such document. If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.
They're discussing this on Morning Joe right now, after reading this part of it.
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BIDEN STATEMENT - post on Medium.com - on the Tara Reade allegations (Original Post)
highplainsdem
May 2020
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Cha
(297,722 posts)1. Excellent detailed statement from Biden, hpd..
that you.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)2. Anyone else starting to see a glaring false equivalency here? Reades story is inconsistent Fords ..
... story was for the most part consistent.
It's not believe people who change their stories and do shady shit
Am I off ?
underpants
(182,904 posts)5. MJ is trying to jump on this. He states that her allegations
should be respected and investigated.
Good statement in my opinion
Funtatlaguy
(10,887 posts)3. And he should invite the same level of media scrutiny into Trumps accusers.
woodsprite
(11,927 posts)4. I wouldn't trust the Secretary of the Senate to
Not fabricate something.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)6. Excellent response!
Kingofalldems
(38,487 posts)7. Barr can forge something, can he not?
You know they wouldn't hesitate to try.
Hav
(5,969 posts)8. Good reply. It could have been harder but that is a task better left to others
But it's kind of ridiculous that it came this far. She is obviously a fraud. Her lies are on record for all to see who care to invest the minimum amount of effort. Her allegations don't date back to 1993 as it's often put, the serious allegations only date back to 2020 when she made them up.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)9. I stand with Joe
Link to tweet
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