Last year, Reade publicly accused Biden of inappropriate touching but did not allege sexual assault. And now for the second time, Reade accused former VC
WASHINGTON| In recent two interviews with the Associated Press, Tara Reade alleged sexual assault against a former aide to Joe Biden. An Aide to Joe Biden is accusing the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her during the early 1990s when he was a senator.
Following the accusation, Biden’s campaign denies the charges.
Tara Reade alleged the assault occurred in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the spring of 1993. On Thursday she filed a police report in Washington saying she was the victim of a sexual assault by an unnamed person in 1993, a copy of which was obtained by the AP.
Last year, Reade publicly accused Biden of inappropriate touching but did not allege sexual assault. And now for the second time, Reade has made an accusation against the former vice president.
While giving her statement, Biden deputy campaign manager and communications director Kate Bedingfield said the former vice president has “dedicated his public life to changing the culture and the laws around violence against women,” pointing to his work passing the violence against women act. Kate Bedingfield said, “he firmly believes that women have a right to be heard and heard respectfully,” but “Such claims should also be diligently reviewed by an independent press.”
Bedingfield further added, “What is clear about this claim, it is untrue. This absolutely did not happen”.
Reade’s charge comes at a pivotal time for Biden. The former vice president is seeking to unify the Democratic Party behind his campaign as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee after Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the primary last week. Women are a crucial voting bloc for Democrats and any erosion of support for Biden could sink his candidacy in the fall.
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