Rose McGowan, one of the first women to accuse disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, has been one of the lone left-leaning voices in Hollywood to continue to draw attention to Tara Reade’s allegations against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden – decrying her fellow “Me Too” advocates for their apparent double standard and denouncing the Democratic Party in the process.
In an interview with podcast host Katie Halper in March, Reade said that while she was a member of his staff in 1993, then-Senator Biden pushed her “up against the wall,” “went down my skirt and then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers.” After weeks of silence and amid mounting pressure to address the accusation directly, Biden finally denied it in a statement posted on Medium on May 1, saying the allegations that he “engaged in misconduct 27 years ago” simply “aren’t true” and “never happened.” Many on the left have taken Biden at his word, and some media outlets have since produced pieces questioning Reade’s credibility.
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