Vox - Last year, several women came forward publicly to say Joe Biden had kissed or touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable.One of them was Tara Reade, who said Biden used to “put his hand on my shoulder and run his finger up my neck” when she worked in his Senate office in 1993.
Reade now says there was more to her experience with Biden. In an interview
with podcast host Katie Halper, which aired Wednesday, Reade says Biden
sexually assaulted her, pushing her against a wall and penetrating her
with his fingers. When she pulled away, she says, he said he thought she
“liked” him...
Reade says she did not speak publicly about her allegation of sexual
assault before in part because no one else witnessed the incident, while
she says others saw Biden harassing her. She also says she faced online
harassment after coming forward last year. As Ryan Grim reports at the Intercept, journalists and others questioned her credibility, pointing out favorable comments she had made about Vladimir Putin in a 2018 Medium post, perhaps implying that she was a Russian plant.
...In particular, critics pointed to that now-deleted 2018 Medium post
in which Reade called Putin “a compassionate, caring, visionary leader”
and said, “To President Putin, I say keep your eyes to the beautiful
future and maybe, just maybe America will come to see Russia as I do,
with eyes of love.”
.... Reade says that in 1993, when she was in her 20s and
working for Biden, another staffer asked her to bring him a gym bag at
the US Capitol.When she did, she says, he pushed her up against a wall
in a secluded area, began kissing her, and reached under her skirt to
penetrate her with his fingers. After she pulled away, she says he
responded with something along the lines of, “Come on, man, I heard you
liked me.” Reade said Biden also said something that sticks with her
today: “You’re nothing to me.”
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