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The same week Tara stopped working for Biden's office she was charged with passing bad checks (Original Post) Skya Rhen May 2020 OP
Reade has several conflicting stories about why Cha May 2020 #1
I'll bet Reade had some PatSeg May 2020 #6
fraud is considered qazplm135 May 2020 #2
Maybe that is why she was let go. Drunken Irishman May 2020 #3
I read something about funds missing Lucinda May 2020 #9
Is that the report she claimed she filed? Iliyah May 2020 #4
And Thus She Became A Security Risk Me. May 2020 #5
Exactly. DURHAM D May 2020 #10
Yep. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #12
So Biden didn't spill the beans babylonsister May 2020 #7
Classy move, not surprised. Alex4Martinez May 2020 #8
Yep, I have a feeling this whole thing will end up helping Biden uponit7771 May 2020 #13
Tara Reade's allegation against Joe Biden is so vague it's impossible to investigate still_one May 2020 #11
This is very, very interesting BGBD May 2020 #14
+100000 Celerity May 2020 #15
Interesting analysis, BGBD.. this supports that.. Cha May 2020 #16
yikes BGBD May 2020 #17
Appropriate response! Cha May 2020 #18
So she became a security risk and knew she would be fired from her Senate job krawhitham May 2020 #19

Cha

(297,240 posts)
1. Reade has several conflicting stories about why
Thu May 7, 2020, 10:56 PM
May 2020

she stopped working for Biden, too.

They're around here someplace.. there's so much of her damn lies.

PatSeg

(47,430 posts)
6. I'll bet Reade had some
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:20 PM
May 2020

inner office issues with other staff members and perhaps she left the job rather than get fired, unless she actually did get fired. She sounds like a real mess. We've all known our share of drama queens like her.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
9. I read something about funds missing
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:58 PM
May 2020

but didn't save it, or follow up.

I had heard that her mother had called in anonymously asking what to do (cant remember whose show) if someone was having trouble with a Senator - but didn't specify it was sexual in nature - I assumed the problem was something that had happened in her termination.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
4. Is that the report she claimed she filed?
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:05 PM
May 2020

P.S. I'm pretty sure VP Biden's attorneys have a sleuth of documents pertaining to her.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
12. Yep.
Fri May 8, 2020, 01:51 AM
May 2020

By the way, people passing bad checks are supposedly among the hardest to "rehabilitate".

I heard that in the past from a couple different "addiction" experts.

babylonsister

(171,065 posts)
7. So Biden didn't spill the beans
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:27 PM
May 2020

and knew this is why she was no longer working for him, but someone does.

If so, props to Biden for not taking a cheap shot which would have totally worked for him.

Alex4Martinez

(2,193 posts)
8. Classy move, not surprised.
Thu May 7, 2020, 11:31 PM
May 2020

Only a sick fuck like Trump would use something like this.

Joe is handling this perfectly.

still_one

(92,190 posts)
11. Tara Reade's allegation against Joe Biden is so vague it's impossible to investigate
Fri May 8, 2020, 01:46 AM
May 2020

.........

" A onetime aide sometimes named Tara Reade — she’s changed her name several times over the years — has alleged that Biden essentially did to her what candidate Trump once bragged about doing to star-struck women. This supposedly in a Senate hallway 27 years ago. Biden has categorically denied the charge and called for the release of all available records, including the formal complaint that Reade says caused her to be fired.

Except Reade has no copy of her complaint, and nobody else can find it, either. She now says it never mentioned harassment or sexual assault anyway. I doubt it ever existed. She did tell versions of her tale of woe to a few friends along the way, although apparently none in Washington. As recently as 2017, she was regularly posting tweets in praise of “my old boss” Joe Biden, specifically for his efforts combating sexual assault.

By 2018, she had a new hero: Vladimir Putin. “President Putin,” she wrote in an opinion column, “has an alluring combination of strength with gentleness. His sensuous image projects his love for life, the embodiment of grace while facing adversity. … President Putin’s obvious reverence for women, children and animals, and his ability with sports is intoxicating to American women.” Waxing passionate, she wrote that “like most women across the world, I like President Putin … a lot, his shirt on or shirt off.”

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"Reade’s ever-changing stories, trial lawyers point out, would make her a cross-examiner’s daydream. “The first thing that comes to mind…,” writes former federal prosecutor Michael J. Stern in USA Today, “is that Reade’s amnesia about specifics makes it impossible for Biden to go through records and prove he could not have committed the assault, because he was somewhere else at the time.”

But this thing isn’t going to trial anywhere except Fox News and MSNBC. For that matter, a crime so vaguely described is impossible to investigate. In short, it’s the very definition of a clumsy smear."

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/5/7/21249703/gene-lyons-tara-reade-joe-biden-suntimes

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
14. This is very, very interesting
Fri May 8, 2020, 02:06 AM
May 2020

It would set up a timeline that looks like this...

8/2/1993: Tara Reade is charged with a criminal offense for passing a bad check.

8/6/1993: Tara Reade is terminated from Joe Bidens Senate Office

8/11/1993: Tara Reade's mother calls into Larry King to complain about Joe Bidens office

Furthermore, from the SLO Paper today we now know that Tara Reade only filed a restraining order against her ex-husband 4 days AFTER HE filed for divorce.

I really feel like we are starting to see a pattern of TR trying to paint herself as the victim of abuse to cover for things like getting fired or a husband leaving her. These become the types of lies that you have to tell forever. This is the only story that fits all of the things that have been uncovered.

Reade gets a criminal charge for passing a bad check. Bidens office is informed and they decide to let her go. Distraught at being fired and not wanting anyone to know about the misdemeanor, she tells her mother that she was fired for complaining about harassment in Bidens office. Her Mother is upset and calls into Larry king a few days later. From that point on she has to keep up that story. She tells her husband, friends, and coworkers when the subject comes up.

krawhitham

(4,644 posts)
19. So she became a security risk and knew she would be fired from her Senate job
Fri May 8, 2020, 02:39 AM
May 2020

she quit instead and gave her family some BS excuse about being asked to hand out drinks because she had nice legs

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