After finally addressing former Senate staffer Tara Reade’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been forced to try to reconcile his party’s “Believe Women” mantra with his assertion that what Reade says took place back in 1993 “never happened.”
In an interview with podcast host Katie Halper in March, Reade gave a detailed account of what she says took place when she was a staffer for then-Senator Biden in 1993. Asked by a member of his staff to bring him his gym bag, Reade said that she encountered Biden alone and, after he greeted her, “He just had me up against the wall.” “It happened all at once,” Reade told Halper. “His hands were on me and underneath my clothes, and he went down my skirt and then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers and he was kissing me at the same time and he was saying something to me.”
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