A male student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is suing after the school expelled him for sexual misconduct even after evidence was presented that showed he was the victim.
The student, referred to as John Doe in court documents reviewed by The Daily Wire, says in his lawsuit that he informed ERAU that he was too intoxicated to engage in sexual activity and witness statements back him up, yet the school relied on antiquated gender stereotypes about male sexuality to say his claim wasn’t credible.
The lawsuit stems from an encounter between John and a student referred to only as Jane Roe that took place on October 26, 2019 following a Halloween party at John’s home. John and Jane, according to the lawsuit, had been exchanging text messages for weeks prior to the party and had gone on several dates, though John no longer has the messages.
John says he had about 15 alcoholic drinks the night of the incident, and witnesses stated he was “drunk” while others said Jane appeared fine.
The two students ended up in John’s room and began making out. John says Jane initiated the sexual activity by saying she wanted to kiss him. The two then engaged in oral sex and Jane allegedly told John she wanted intercourse. At some point during sexual intercourse, Jane allegedly joked that her “vagina was broken,” something she would later claim was her way of telling John she was uncomfortable.
Throughout all of this, John alleges Jane never received affirmative consent from John because he was too intoxicated to have given it, according to ERAU’s Sexual Misconduct Policy.
Jane spent the night at John’s house. In the morning, she overheard John and another student talking about a woman who engaged in sexual activity at the party. John says in his lawsuit that he believes Jane thought she was the one being discussed and didn’t want to be talked about this way.
A witness, JD, who said he was a “really close friend” of Jane and a friend of John’s, provided a sworn statement that was given to ERAU. In the statement, JD says both John and Jane were drunk at the party and that he saw Jane the next day. Jane at that time told JD, “I think I got raped,” though she admitted she never did anything to indicate she didn’t want to have sex that night. JD also said Jane kept saying she did give consent for the kissing and oral sex.
“And, then, I was, like, ‘Did you tell him to stop kissing you, or, you know, tell him, like, that&#8217;s not what you wanted?’ She was, like, ‘No, I didn&#8217;t. I was okay with that,’” JD said in his statement. He gave a similar explanation of his conversation with Jane about the oral sex.
“So, then, she was, like, ‘Well, after, you know, we were kissing he gave me head or whatever. You know, oral sex.’ And I was, like, ‘Okay. Well, did you tell him to stop then?’ And she was, like, ‘No, I didn&#8217;t tell him to stop then.’”
JD said Jane told him she consented to kissing and oral sex.
“So I was, like, ‘So you&#8217;re okay with, you know, making out and him giving you head? That – you was okay with that?’ She was, like, ‘Yes, I was fine with that,’” JD said in his statement.
Jane also indicated to JD that she never told John to stop or gave any indication she didn’t want to have sex with him.
“And, then, I was, like, ‘So at what point did you tell him to stop, because it sounds like to me you knew what were you doing and that, you know, that&#8217;s what you wanted?’ She was like, ‘Well, when he, you know, finally started, actually, having sex with me I told him my vagina was broken, but I laughed about it.’ And I was, like, ‘So why do you think he would stop behind you making a joke about that? You know, like &#8212; it wasn&#8217;t, like, you said, Stop. Seriously stop. You made a joke, you know, so how is he supposed to, you know, take you seriously and be, like, okay I need to stop doing this because she&#8217;s uncomfortable when you&#8217;re cracking jokes.’ And, then, she just was, like, ‘I don&#8217;t know,’” JD said.
JD is also the one who said Jane “was mad” after overhearing John talk about a woman having sex at the Halloween party and believed she was the woman being discussed. JD said in his statement he believed Jane exaggerated a story about sexual assault due to this anger.
“I feel, like, she&#8217;s doing all this because of what she heard that morning thinking that it had to do with her. I think that&#8217;s what it is. I think, ultimately, she was okay with them having sex and that the only reason she even went as far as she did, as far as calling it rape, was because she didn&#8217;t want to be a rumor that somebody had sex with [John Doe]. I think that&#8217;s what it really boils down to and it just spiraled into this snowball effect and now she has to run with it,” JD said.
After the encounter, John alleges, he and Jane exchanged text messages about their activity. John apologized “for the way [he] acted on the phone.” Jane sent him a message that said: “I want to meet and talk this out. Just you and I. I really just want to move past this. I hope u feel the same.”
Another witness, AC, said in a sworn statement (that was also provided to ERAU) that indicated Jane was “fine” during the party.
“… [S]he seemed completely coherent. She wasn&#8217;t slurring. She wasn&#8217;t leaning on anybody. She was &#8212; she seemed completely fine. And it didn&#8217;t even occur to me that she could have drank, because that&#8217;s just how well she handled it,” AC said in his statement. “[Jane Roe] just – she didn&#8217;t represent or seem as though she had any issues with any of the issues you were just describing. She was able to talk clearly and very coherently. She was able to answer my questions immediately. There was no delay. There was no second thoughts. There was no stuttering, slurring. There was no needing to lean on someone. Hanging on a wall, falling over. There was none of that.”
Another witness, RT, describe Jane as consenting to everything that happened.
A couple weeks later, on November 11, 2019, John was told a sexual assault complaint had been lodged against him. He was told on November 13 that Jane claimed she was too drunk to consent. When John said that, in fact, he was too drunk to consent, the Title IX Coordinator dismissed his claim, actually suggesting that John wouldn’t have been able to maintain an erection if he were truly intoxicated.
John was immediately suspended from his athletic team. Jane was not, despite John’s own credible allegation that he was too intoxicated to consent per school policy. John says in his lawsuit that he was told by the Title IX investigator not to file a complaint that he was the victim because ERAU would see it as retaliation against Jane.
In December, John and Jane met with the ERAU chaplain to reach an informal resolution, according to the lawsuit. The process was supposed to be confidential, but John alleges Jane falsely claimed to the Title IX Coordinator that John admitted to raping her. John says he did no such thing.
John was informed on January 8, 2020, that Jane wanted to launch a formal investigation against John. When John tried to point out inconsistencies in Jane’s claims while looking over the investigative report in February 2020, he was told he didn’t have to point them out because they were already marked down.
Yet another witness, MD, provided a statement to ERAU saying Jane’s actions in the weeks after the sexual encounter undermined her credibility, yet the school investigator didn’t include this information in the final report.
On March 24, John was found responsible for sexual misconduct. They deemed Jane “credible,” according to John’s lawsuit, “based on a subjective assessment of Jane Roe’s conduct after engaging in sexual activity with John Doe, including the observation that Jane Roe ‘was angry with [John Doe]…’” They found John had a “lack of credibility,” according to his lawsuit, “based on subjective factors including observations that John Doe ‘appeared more concerned about his own well-being that what [Jane Roe] was going through.’”
John was never allowed to question Jane.
John was informed he would be dismissed at the end of the semester. He appealed and was granted a request for reconsideration, but his lawsuit alleges the new investigator didn’t conduct an independent investigation and simply relied on previous information, including Jane’s medical records. John alleges in his lawsuit that the investigators didn’t actually see Jane’s medical records and relied only on her own summary.
John was again found responsible in a letter that read almost exactly as the original finding of responsibility. It again dismissed his claim of being too intoxicated based on information that would not have discounted such a claim if Jane had made it and relied on the same outdated, gendered assumption that a drunk man cannot maintain an erection.
John is now suing for breach of contract and Title IX violations, requesting economic and emotional damages in excess of $75,000.
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She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault Even Though HE Was Too Incapacitated To Consent. He Was Expelled Anyway.

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A male Oberlin College student was expelled even though the school lacked evidence the female accuser was incapacitated for their sexual encounter and even though she told investigators and a hearing panel drastically different stories.
The male student, referred to as John Doe <a href="https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0195p-06.pdf">in court documents</a>, just received a win from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which ruled Oberlin violated John’s rights by discriminating against him based on his sex. Writing for the majority, Judge Raymond Kethledge began the ruling with a fiery acknowledgement.
“Any number of federal constitutional and statutory provisions reflect the proposition that, in this country, we determine guilt or innocence individually—rather than collectively, based on one’s identification with some demographic group. That principle has not always been perfectly realized in our Nation’s history, but as judges it is one that we take an oath to enforce. Here, the relevant statute is Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which bars universities that receive federal funds from discriminating against students based on their sex,” he wrote.
Kethledge then laid out several ways in which Oberlin has demonstrated its bias against students accused of sexual misconduct – who are almost all male. For example, “Oberlin instructed its faculty, ‘via an online resource guide,’ that they should ‘[b]elieve’ students who report sexual assault, because ‘a very small minority of reported sexual assaults prove to be false reports,’” Kethledge wrote. Further, members of Oberlin’s Title IX office, which investigates and adjudicates claims of sexual misconduct, reportedly receive “annual training in strategies to protect parties who experience sexual misconduct[,]” but no training on “how to conduct impartial fact-finding proceedings,” John’s attorneys alleged.
The woman who was named Oberlin’s Title IX Coordinator, who oversees the department and has a say in sanctions against accused students, was hired in 2013 and said in 2014 that she was “committed to survivor-centered processes.” The Coordinator’s name is Meredith Raimondo, who was named as a defendant when Gibson’s Bakery <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worse-you-think-theres-more-oberlin-story-ashe-schow">sued Oberlin for defamation</a> and won millions. Further, a report from Oberlin showed that 100% of allegations that resulted in a hearing panel ended with a responsible finding against the accused.
This all painted the backdrop for Jane Roe, as the accuser is referred to in court documents, to make her allegations against John. The two undergraduates met at a party in December 2015 and spent the night in John’s room after having consensual intercourse without a condom, court documents say. They had little interaction for the next two months, until John texted Jane at 1 in the morning on February 28, asking, “What are you up to tonight?” The two exchanged nine text messages in 30 minutes, court documents say. Jane said she was “about to smoke [marijuana]” in John’s residence hall and asked him if she could come by after. John said “yea.”
Jane arrived at John’s around 1:45 a.m. The two spoke briefly and began making out before taking off their clothes. Jane requested John use a condom when they had sex. During the encounter, Jane said she was thirsty, so John stopped to get her some water. They again had sex, this time without the condom, until Jane said she was “dry” because, “I’m not sober.”
John stopped having sex with her and asked if she would perform oral sex on him, to which she agreed. Afterward, the two talked a little and Jane left.
Nine days later, Jane told Raimondo that John had sexually assaulted her. Raimondo didn’t tell John about the charges until a week later, and even then only gave a vague description, writing in an email that Oberlin was investigating a claim that he had sexually assaulted Jane “on 2/27/16 while she was incapacitated due to alcohol and unable to consent to sexual activity.”
Raimondo appointed Joshua Nolan to investigate the allegations. Oberlin policy stated that investigations should take no more than 20 days and that the entire matter should be resolved in no more than 60 days. Nolan took 120 days to issue an investigative report, court documents say. After 61 days, John emailed Raimondo to ask about the delay, saying he couldn’t get in contact with Nolan. Raimondo said nothing except that Oberlin would notify him “of the reason(s) for the delay and the expected adjustment in time frames.”
It wasn’t until July 7, 2016 – more than four months after the sexual encounter – that John would even learn of the details of Jane’s allegations. Jane’s account of the encounter differed from John’s only slightly. She said John asked her oral sex before they had intercourse and she asked if he had a condom. She said nothing about being thirsty or John getting her water. She again said John “asked” her for oral sex and that she responded “okay, but I’m not very sober right now.” Jane wrote in a personal journal shortly after the incident that John “asked” her “to go down on him.”
Nolan interviewed 10 people, mostly Jane’s friends. Nearly all of them said Jane didn’t appear incapacitated, instead describing her as “intoxicated” but not “overly” so, her speech as “slower” than usual but “not slurred.” Another said she asked Jane if she was “good” when she saw her immediately before her encounter with John, to which Jane replied “yes.” The further from the incident, the more Jane claimed she was sexually assaulted. A friend she saw shortly after said Jane was “disappointed and upset that she had done something.” Another friend said Jane claimed she was “too intoxicated to consent.” A third friend, who spoke with Jane a few days after the encounter, said Jane said John had “sexually assaulted her” by “forc[ing] oral sex on her.”
When Nolan interviewed Jane, she was accompanied by her friend J.B., a male, whom she identified as her &#8220;designated support person.&#8221; J.B. would later say he was surprised by how different Jane&#8217;s account to Nolan was than what she had told him. J.B. said Nolan told him he would be brought back of his own interview, but Nolan never contacted him again. After J.B. heard that John had been found responsible, he emailed Raimondo saying that Jane told him John never forced her to perform oral sex on him and that her hearing testimony was misleading in other ways as well. Raimondo never responded and there is no evidence Oberlin considered anything J.B. said about the incident.
Despite what she wrote in her journal and what she told investigator Nolan about John asking her for oral sex, Jane claimed at the hearing that John forced her and never asked her. Nolan testified at the hearing, saying that the only contradiction he heard in testimony from what he was told during the investigation was from Jane about whether John asked for oral sex.
John was appointed an advisor who was supposed to support him, but this advisor “left the hearing early” and two weeks later retweeted: “To survivors everywhere, we believe you.”
John was unsurprisingly found responsible based on what the hearing panel claimed was a “preponderance of the evidence established that effective consent was not maintained for the entire sexual encounter that occurred on February 28, 2016.”
Judge Kethledge wrote:
<blockquote>Consent was absent, the panel found, because Roe was incapacitated, as the Policy defined it, from the moment she told Doe that she was “not sober.” The panel cited no other behavior supporting a finding either that Roe was incapacitated as defined by the Policy or that Doe would have had any reason to think she was. Nor did the panel mention the contradiction cited by Nolan, between what Roe told him (and several friends) and what she told the hearing panel, as to whether Doe had “asked” for oral sex. As a sanction, the panel recommended the most severe one: expulsion. The College accepted that recommendation and ordered Doe expelled.</blockquote>
Oberlin’s policy defined “incapacitated” as a person who “lack[s] conscious knowledge of the nature of the act” or “is physically helpless.” Jane’s casual remark about not being sober was enough for the hearing panel to determine she was “incapacitated,” despite what her friends said and the fact that not only did the school have to demonstrate that Jane was incapacitated as defined by Oberlin’s policy, but that John or a reasonable person would have been able to see that she was incapacitated.
John sued Oberlin, but a district court granted the school’s motion to dismiss. John appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which overturned the lower court’s decision.
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Her Story Changed And Even Her Friend Said She Lied About Being Sexually Assaulted. He Was Expelled Anyway.

Last week, pop-star Justin Bieber was accused of sexually assaulting two women in separate incidents. The singer immediately disputed the claims with photos, articles, and receipts proving he could not have been where the women claimed he was when he allegedly assaulted them. Bieber has now filed a $20 million defamation suit against the women.
Bieber and his attorneys quickly filed the defamation lawsuit after the allegations from two women, known only as Danielle and Kadi, were made on social media, People <a href="https://people.com/music/justin-bieber-files-defamation-lawsuit-against-sexual-assault-accusers/">reported</a>. Bieber’s attorneys have called the accusations against the pop star “factually impossible, and disproven both by indisputable documentary evidence and the individuals’ own admissions.”
&#8220;Danielle claimed she was sexually assaulted at the Four Seasons Hotel on March 9, 2014, however, Bieber did not stay at that hotel in March 2014 and there are multiple witnesses and documentary evidence to dispute Danielle&#8217;s malicious lie,&#8221; said the complaint, obtained by People. It went on to call Kadi’s allegations &#8220;likewise factually impossible, are contradicted by her own prior written statements, are supported only by falsified or faked texts.&#8221;
&#8220;Danielle fabricated her sexual encounter with Bieber at the Four Seasons Hotel because it was publicly reported that Bieber had dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant on March 10, 2014 and presumed that Bieber was at the hotel because of the public reports of him dining at the restaurant,&#8221; the lawsuit continued. &#8220;However, even though Bieber went to the restaurant, he did NOT stay at the Four Seasons Hotel.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire’s James Barrett previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/factually-impossible-justin-bieber-refutes-assault-claim-posts-evidence-he-says-proves-its-false">reported</a>, Bieber defended himself against Danielle’s claims in a lengthy series of tweets.
“As her story told I did surprise a crowd in Austin at Sxsw where I appeared on stage with my then assistant side stage and sang a few songs. What this person did not know was that I attended that show with my then [girlfriend] Selena Gomez,” he wrote before linking to a US Magazine article about Gomez attending the event with him.
“These photos clearly show me on stage with my assistant sidestage and the other with both of us in the streets of Austin afterwards on March 9 2014,” Bieber continued, linking to another article. “Here is article that shows we didn’t arrive in Austin that night from Selena’s show in Houston until late in the night.”
“The other reason this story might say I was staying at the Four Seasons was because a tweet from 2014 on March 10th, not the the 9th, says they saw me there,” he added along with the screenshot of the tweet. “However I never stayed at the Four Seasons on the 9th or the 10th. This person put another tweet up earlier saying they saw me at the restaurant the following night not the hotel.”
“Furthermore I stayed with Selena and our friends at an airbnb on the 9th and on the 10th stayed at a Westin because our hotel reservation at LÀ Quinta and not the four seasons was messed up. Here are the receipts for the hotel on the 10th,” he said, including photos of the tweets.
Bieber also included pictures of receipts for the AirBnB where he, Gomez, and their friends stayed in Austin, as well as photos of them at the rental property. He then added photos of receipts showing he stayed at the Westin on March 10th.
As to Kadi’s claim, Bieber’s lawsuit noted that he could not have been at the Langham hotel at 2:30 a.m. on May 5, 2015 because he was at the after party for the Met Gala, where witnesses placed him.
Bieber accused Kadi of being “desperate to meet him and desperate his attention and for fame.&#8221;
&#8220;Kadi has admitted on her Twitter page that she wants to be famous, to be a star on a Netflix series by using Twitter, stating in a pinned tweet, &#8216;I wanna star in a netflix series! twitter do ur thing&#8217; &#8221; in 2018, the lawsuit said.
Bieber’s lawsuit also cited several tweets from Kadi making clear she had never met Bieber but desperately wanted to, including one tweet saying she would “pay you to rape me.”
Kadi’s Twitter account is still up, but Danielle removed hers.
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Justin Bieber Files $20 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Women Who Accused Him Of Sexual Assault

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Actor Ansel Elgort (&#8220;Baby Driver,&#8221; &#8220;The Goldfinch&#8221;) denies sexually assaulting a 17-year-old in 2014 when he was 20.
On Friday, a Twitter user named Gabby <a href="https://twitter.com/ltsgabby/status/1273974928853827584" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">accused Elgort</a> of sexually assaulting her in 2014 after she messaged him online.
&#8220;I had DMed him on when it was two days before my 17th birthday and I got his private Snapchat. I didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d ever see my DM. I was just a kid and was a fan of him,&#8221; Gabby said in her post, as <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1162931/ansel-elgort-breaks-his-silence-after-being-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-17-year-old-girl">reported</a> by E! Entertainment News.
Gabby claims that when she and Elgort were having sex, she started crying &#8220;in pain&#8221; and that Elgort simply replied, &#8220;we need to break you in.&#8221;
&#8220;So when it happened, instead of asking me if I wanted to stop having sex knowing it was my first time and I was sobbing in pain and I didn&#8217;t want to do it, the only words that came out of his mouth were ‘we need to break you in,'&#8221; she said. &#8220;I WASN&#8217;T there in that moment mentally. I disassociated myself and just felt like my mind was gone. I was in shock. I couldn&#8217;t leave. I was only 5&#8217;2 and 98 pounds. He made me think this is how sex was supposed to be. I WAS SO YOUNG AND HE KNEW THAT.&#8221;
Gabby also alleged that Ansel wanted to have a threesome with her and her dance friend.
&#8220;They were as well underage and I didn&#8217;t tell anyone because he said it could ‘ruin his career.&#8217; I sat there for months wondering what I did wrong. Wondering why I felt so used,&#8221; Gabby alleged. &#8220;Years later, I have PTSD, I have panic attacks, I go to therapy. Finally, I&#8217;m ready to talk about it and finally heal.&#8221;
After a day of silence, Ansel Elgort released a statement claiming that he and Gabby had a legal and consensual relationship and denying that he ever assaulted her, though he did admit that he coldly tossed her aside after the encounter.
&#8220;I was distressed to see the social media posts about me that have been circulating in the past 24 hours,&#8221; Elgort wrote on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBrc56ABpWn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>. &#8220;I cannot claim to understand Gabby&#8217;s feelings but her depiction of events is simply not what happened. I have never and would never assault anyone. What is true is that in New York in 2014, when I was 20, Gabby and I had a brief, legal, and entirely consensual relationship. Unfortunately, I did not handle the breakup well.&#8221;
The age of consent in the state of New York is 17.
Ansel went on to say that he &#8220;stopped responding to her, which is an immature and cruel thing to do to someone.&#8221;
&#8220;This belated apology does not absolve me of my unacceptable behavior when I disappeared,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;As I look back at my attitude, I am disgusted and deeply ashamed of the way I acted. I am truly sorry. I know I must continue to reflect, learn, and work to grow in empathy.&#8221;
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A police officer sued one of her coworkers alleging he sexually assaulted her by smacking her on the butt with an open hand back in 2016. The accused officer was suspended for five days and quit while being investigated.
Last week, the female officer’s lawsuit was dismissed and the city ordered her to pay the accused officer’s legal fees, CBS Chicago <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/06/11/city-of-hammond-sends-officer-bill-for-legal-fees-after-she-loses-sexual-assault-suit-against-another-officer/">reported</a>.
The accuser, Denise Szany, claimed a fellow officer “assaulted her by grabbing her by her vest, then her belt and then by physically harming her,” according to <a href="https://casetext.com/case/szany-v-city-of-hammond-3">court documents</a>. Szany also claimed that during this same altercation is when the fellow officer, who has not been charged with a crime, smacked her on the butt.
Szany originally filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which granted her the right to sue. She filed her lawsuit in February 2017.
Szany alleged in her lawsuit that about a year after she filed it she was retaliated against by the City of Hammond, Illinois. She claimed the city knew about her lawsuit and assigned her to use the same police car as the man she accused, claiming this action put her &#8220;in a dangerous situation as well as contributed to the then ongoing pervasive hostile work environment.&#8221;
As District Court Judge Philip Simon noted, the Hammond Police Department has 200 officers and just fourteen marked cars, so officers on different shifts use the same cars. Szany, however, argued that “she was terrified” to use the same car as the officer she accused because she thought he would harass or assault her again.
“But there is no allegation that as a result of the car assignments that [the accused] and Szany were ever assigned to use the car at the same time, that they interacted with one another as a result, or that [the accused] actually did anything untoward or inappropriate to Szany during this time. After three months of this assignment system, Szany&#8217;s counsel wrote a letter and from then on Szany was no longer assigned to the same car as [the accused],” Simon wrote in September 2019.
“Here, Szany alleges only speculation that she was going to be harmed or harassed because of the car assignment system. But that is not a material adverse employment action. Notice pleading doesn&#8217;t require much, but it certainly requires more than the subjective fear of unrealized harm that Szany has offered,” Simon added.
At that time, Simon dismissed Count VII of Szany’s lawsuit, with prejudice, meaning she cannot appeal the dismissal.
Szany’s attorney now argues that since she is being ordered to pay legal fees after losing her lawsuit, she is being retaliated against yet again. Her attorney said she would appeal the decision, CBS Chicago reported.
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Over the weekend, far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) sent shockwaves across the political landscape when she said that she believed Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade. After significant backlash on social media, Omar clarified that she will still be voting for Joe Biden come November.
&#8220;Ms. Omar I am not an admirer,&#8221; a user tweeted at Omar. &#8220;We don’t think -we know- that MAGA and Russia are working to defeat a mod dem. I found the comments irresponsible. You should’ve said: &#8216;I don’t know If Tara Reade is telling the truth and of course, as a surrogate of Bernie’s, I didn’t want Biden.'&#8221;
Omar said in response, &#8220;Believing survivors is consistent with my values. Yes, I endorsed against Biden and I didn’t pick him as our nominee. With that said, in this interview I did on May 6th, we talked about that and quotes aren’t always in context. I will vote for him and help him defeat Trump.”
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Believing survivors is consistent with my values. Yes, I endorsed against Biden and I didn’t pick him as our nominee. With that said, in this interview I did on May 6th, we talked about that and quotes aren’t always in context. I will vote for him and help him defeat Trump.
&mdash; Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1264929582253330432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Speaking with the U.K.’s <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/the-sunday-times-magazine/ilhan-omar-interview-the-us-politician-on-her-new-book-and-refugee-past-sls8vlcrz">Sunday Times</a>, Omar said that justice should not be “denied” regarding Reade’s allegation against Biden. She also allegedly told the interviewer that Biden would not be the nominee if she had the final decision.
“I do believe Reade,” said Omar. “Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.”
While the mainstream media and other prominent Democrats have tirelessly tried to dismiss Reade as a liar – a treatment far different that Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford – other Democrats have flatly stated that they will vote for Joe Biden even though they believe Reade. Author Linda Hirshman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-op-ed-electing-biden-is-worth-dismissing-accuser-weakening-the-voices-of-victims-suck-it-up">gave this argument legs </a>in a recent op-ed for The New York Times:
<blockquote>All major Democratic Party figures have indicated they’re not budging on the presumptive nominee, and the transaction costs of replacing him would be suicidal. Barring some miracle, it’s going to be Mr. Biden.
So what is the greatest good or the greatest harm? Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the worst president in the history of the Republic. Compared with the good Mr. Biden can do, the cost of dismissing Tara Reade — and, worse, weakening the voices of future survivors — is worth it.</blockquote>
Earlier this month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a member of the radical “Squad” along with Omar, said that Reade’s allegation against Biden<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-tara-reades-claim-against-joe-biden-is-not-clear-cut"> is not “clear cut”</a> while conceding that “something has happened” between the two.
“There have been investigative journalists that have corroborated certain aspects of her account – that is undeniable – [and] have raised questions about other aspects of her account,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851715944/rep-ocasio-cortez-says-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-not-clear-cut">told NPR</a>. “It certainly seems as though something has happened. I’m not sure… Frankly, this is a messy moment, and I think we need to acknowledge that – that it is not clear-cut.”
In March, Reade claimed that then-Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade’s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the alleged assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called in to CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
Earlier this month, The Associated Press <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-new-sources-claim-tara-reade-told-them-about-aspects-of-joe-biden-allegation">reported</a> that two other people, both of whom wished to remain anonymous, said that Reade spoke of Biden’s behavior prior to going public. Following that, new evidence emerged that appeared to support Reade’s claim when the San Louis Obispo Tribune <a href="https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html">reported</a> on court documents from 1996 that revealed she had complained to her then-husband about sexual harassment from someone in Biden’s office in 1993.
“The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say Biden committed the harassment nor does it mention Reade’s more recent allegations of sexual assault,” reported the outlet. “Reade’s then-husband Theodore Dronen wrote the court declaration. Dronen at the time was contesting a restraining order Reade filed against him days after he filed for divorce, Superior Court records show.”
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After Saying She Believes Tara Reade, Ilhan Omar Clarifies: I’m Still Voting For Biden

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As most Democratic leaders and members of the mainstream media continue to treat Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade far differently than they did Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford, far-left Congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has declared that she believes Reade.
Speaking with the U.K.&#8217;s <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/the-sunday-times-magazine/ilhan-omar-interview-the-us-politician-on-her-new-book-and-refugee-past-sls8vlcrz">Sunday Times</a>, Omar said that justice should not be &#8220;denied&#8221; regarding Reade&#8217;s allegation against Biden.
“I do believe Reade,” said Omar. “Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.”
Omar also said that Biden would not be the nominee if she were the one making the final decision.
Earlier this month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a member of the radical &#8220;Squad&#8221; along with Omar, said that Tara Reade’s allegation against Biden<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-tara-reades-claim-against-joe-biden-is-not-clear-cut"> is not “clear cut”</a> while conceding that &#8220;something has happened&#8221; between the two.
“There have been investigative journalists that have corroborated certain aspects of her account – that is undeniable – [and] have raised questions about other aspects of her account,” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851715944/rep-ocasio-cortez-says-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-not-clear-cut">told NPR</a>. “It certainly seems as though something has happened. I’m not sure… Frankly, this is a messy moment, and I think we need to acknowledge that – that it is not clear-cut.”
Ocasio-Cortez added that she does not believe Tara Reade to be a political actor.
“While a lot of folks, again, are trying to jump to the political implications, she has never explicitly said ‘don’t support Joe Biden,’” Ocasio-Cortez said. “She hasn’t explicitly said anything in terms of a political remedy that she wants. If anything, it simply sounds like she wants to be heard.”
However, other prominent Democrats, including the women on Biden&#8217;s shortlist to become his running mate, have either dismissed Reade&#8217;s claims or defended Joe Biden outright. Some progressives, such as author Linda Hirshman, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-op-ed-electing-biden-is-worth-dismissing-accuser-weakening-the-voices-of-victims-suck-it-up">have argued </a>people should vote for Joe Biden despite the credibility of Reade&#8217;s claims:
<blockquote>All major Democratic Party figures have indicated they’re not budging on the presumptive nominee, and the transaction costs of replacing him would be suicidal. Barring some miracle, it’s going to be Mr. Biden.
So what is the greatest good or the greatest harm? Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the worst president in the history of the Republic. Compared with the good Mr. Biden can do, the cost of dismissing Tara Reade — and, worse, weakening the voices of future survivors — is worth it.</blockquote>
In March, Reade claimed that then-Senator Joe Biden sexually assaulted her while she served as an aide in his Senate offices during the Clinton administration. She has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade’s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the alleged assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called in to CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
Earlier this month, The Associated Press <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-new-sources-claim-tara-reade-told-them-about-aspects-of-joe-biden-allegation">reported</a> that two other people, both of whom wished to remain anonymous, said that Reade spoke of Biden’s behavior prior to going public. Follow that, new evidence emerged that appeared to support Reade’s claim when the San Louis Obispo Tribune <a href="https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html">reported</a> on court documents from 1996 that revealed she had complained to her then-husband about sexual harassment from someone in Biden&#8217;s office in 1993.
“The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say Biden committed the harassment nor does it mention Reade’s more recent allegations of sexual assault,” reported the outlet. “Reade’s then-husband Theodore Dronen wrote the court declaration. Dronen at the time was contesting a restraining order Reade filed against him days after he filed for divorce, Superior Court records show.”
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Ilhan Omar Believes Biden Accuser Tara Reade: ‘Justice Can Be Delayed, But Should Never Be Denied’

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has continued her reign as one of the most hypocritical alleged feminists in all of politics.
During a recent interview with radio host Evan Dawson, Gillibrand was asked about the differences between the allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and those against de facto Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Gillibrand offered an answer full of misrepresentations about the allegations against Kavanaugh.
“There were multiple allegations against Brett Kavanaugh in various circumstances. Not only Dr. Blasey Ford’s allegations but several from his college days. Um, there was a similarity in the multiple allegations against him,” she told Dawson, who hosts a program called “Connections.” “Um, and he had a terrible record on supporting women and I opposed him based on his actual record and I did not believe his statements and so I think they’re very different. Also, Brett Kavanaugh was a Supreme Court Justice nominee for a lifetime appointment and my responsibility was to vote up or down and I voted against him on the merits of him not being qualified for that job.”
That’s a lot to unpack. There were multiple allegations against Kavanaugh, but they were all dubious. Some were flat out false. Ford couldn’t even remember the year the alleged sexual assault happened. She said she was in high school at the time, so it should have been easy to narrow down the year, yet she never could, alternating between the mid 80s to the early 80s. The people she named as being witnesses either couldn’t recall the event or denied it ever happened. Her own best friend said she couldn’t remember ever meeting Kavanaugh. Ford and her legal team then set the media on the old friend, accusing her of mental problems.
And there were not “several” allegations from Kavanaugh’s college days. There was one, which was also dubious. The woman didn’t even come to believe Kavanaugh was the one who exposed his penis to her at a dorm-room party until after she talked to Democrat lawyers. Another allegation from Kavanaugh’s college days came not from someone claiming to be a victim, but someone who claimed to have seen someone else push Kavanaugh’s penis toward a woman. That woman said she didn’t recall any such event.
There was also no similarity in the allegations. Gillibrand is an attorney, she should know what it takes for allegations to be considered similar. One allegation alleged Kavanaugh pushed a woman on a bed and groped her. Another said he dropped his pants and exposed his penis to a woman. Another said his penis was put into another woman’s hand by a third party. One of the false accusations said he organized teenage gang-rape parties. Another false accusation said he raped someone in a van.
Gillibrand’s claim about Kavanaugh not supporting women is purely political. He doesn’t support women the way she thinks he should, but her statement also makes it seem like it’s okay to sexually assault women so long as you adequately “support” them in their career. This applies to her endorsement of Biden. He may have been accused, but he’s passed policies that Gillibrand likes, so he can’t possibly be guilty. Never mind the fact there’s actual evidence that Biden met his accuser while there is exactly zero evidence Kavanaugh ever met Ford.
Gillibrand then claimed she actually voted against Kavanaugh because she didn’t think he was qualified for the job, but here’s what she said during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing:
“Do we value women in this country? Do we listen to women when they tell us about sexual trauma? Do we listen to their stories about how their lives have been forever scarred? Do we take their claims seriously? Or do we just disbelieve them as a matter of course?”
Of course, Gillibrand only meant those words as they applied to Kavanaugh, as Lara Trump – wife of President Donald Trump’s son Eric – <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/5-top-dem-women-slammed-kavanaugh-back-biden-lara-trump.amp?__twitter_impression=true">noted</a>, the New York senator now thinks differently.
“She has come forward, she has spoken, and they have done an investigation in several outlets. Those investigations, Vice President Biden has called for himself,” Gillibrand said. “Vice President Biden has vehemently denied these allegations and I support Vice President Biden.”
Gillibrand was next asked about policies from the Department of Education that would provide college students with basic due process protections in cases of alleged sexual misconduct.
Naturally, Gillibrand trashed the policies, instantly going back to favoring allegations over evidence.
“Well, I think Betsy DeVos has been a disastrous Secretary of Education and she has intended since the minute she had that position to roll back protections for students on campus and to roll back Title IX protections. She has undermined the ability for anyone to get fair justice or a fair review on any college campus and I think it’s a big mistake. Um, so I look forward to when Betsy DeVos is no longer our Ed. Secretary,” Gillibrand said.
More to unpack.
First, DeVos didn’t enter the position wanting to “roll back protections.” She learned of the due process problems after she was confirmed and was so moved by the issue that she decided to act. She listened to accusers and accused students and determined the current policies on campus are inadequate. Gillibrand and her ilk claim that these policies “roll back protections” but they don’t. They add constitutional protections for accused students that were missing in the ”believe women” movement adopted by college campuses. Giving accused students the ability to see the evidence against them and cross-examine their accuser and witnesses – basic tenants of the American justice system – does not “roll back protections” for accusers.
It is Gillibrand who “undermined the ability for anyone to get fair justice or a fair review” in these cases. She nurtured a culture where women were told to believe that non-criminal activity amounted to sexual assault and to see themselves as victims. She made sure colleges ignored due process and evidence of innocence out of fear they would receive an onslaught of negative publicity if they didn’t throw out an accused student. Look at the case of “Mattress Girl” Emma Sulkowitz, who had no evidence to support her claims of rape and actually had evidence to the contrary – that the sex was consensual – yet became a national heroine to the media for claiming her “rapist” wasn’t removed from campus.
Accused students couldn’t get “fair justice or a fair review” when colleges actively dismissed exculpatory evidence and allowed accusers to avoid having to produce evidence of their claims. In the end, findings of responsibility ended up not being believed – something that harmed accusers as well.
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Kirsten Gillibrand Asked About Biden Allegations, Trashes Education Department And Due Process

In a lawsuit filed anonymously to the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County on Wednesday, an NFL player alleges that he was sexually assaulted and harassed multiple times during a cross-country flight, but that United Airlines failed to take appropriate action or cooperate with authorities. Along with sexual assault and sexual battery, the player is seeking damages for &#8220;intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, negligence and negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention&#8221; by the company.
The lawsuit was first <a href="https://twitter.com/MasterTes/status/1263116284692238337">reported</a> by Bleacher Report&#8217;s &#8220;Untold Stories,&#8221; the host of which posted a copy of the anonymous suit on social media.
&#8220;Breaking: A NFL player is suing [United Airlines], alleging that he was sexually assaulted [and] harassed multiple times by a woman on a recent flight,&#8221; &#8220;Untold Stories&#8221; host Master Tesfatsion tweeted Wednesday along with a copy of the complaint. &#8220;The lawsuit states United Airlines failed to properly respond during the flight, and failed to cooperate with authorities.&#8221;
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Breaking: A NFL player is suing <a href="https://twitter.com/united?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@United</a> Airlines, alleging that he was sexually assaulted &amp; harassed multiple times by a woman on a recent flight. The lawsuit states United Airlines failed to properly respond during the flight, and failed to cooperate with authorities. <a href="https://t.co/oS4DJZlc7V">pic.twitter.com/oS4DJZlc7V</a>
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In a series of post, Tesfatsion provided the following summary of the claims of the lawsuit: 
<blockquote>The allegation occurred on Feb. 10 during a redeye from LA to Newark. The NFL player claims the woman made multiple unwanted sexual advances. The flight attendants did not move her until the 4th complaint, when the woman grabbed his penis [and] ripped off his protective face mask.
The lawsuit claims the woman previously asked the NFL player why he wore a face mask. He said it’s due to the growing COVID-19 concerns. The woman said he looked &#8220;frightening&#8221; with the mask on. The NFL player also claims the woman was intoxicated and taking prescription pills.
The NFL player does not wish to release his identity. He filed the lawsuit under &#8220;John Doe 1&#8221; with another man &#8220;John Doe 2&#8221; sitting in his row with similar claims. Both men are described as African American males. The woman is described as a middle-aged Caucasian female.</blockquote>
In an update, the Bleacher Report host added that a First Amendment complaint has been filed &#8220;to include battery on top of the other 7 complaints previously filed.&#8221;
The firm representing the two men, the Darwish and Azizian Law Firm, has since issued a <a href="https://twitter.com/MasterTes/status/1263117696855613440">statement</a> explaining the ultimate &#8220;goal&#8221; of the case.
&#8220;We bring this lawsuit with the hope that it will be one of the last of its kind,&#8221;  it reads. &#8220;Our wish would be that in the future no passengers’ multiple warnings and complaints to flight attendants, the onboard authority figures, will go unheeded until it’s too late and the damage has been done. This matter is unfortunately based on several instances of assault – physical, sexual, and verbal – on a &#8216;red-eye&#8217; United Airlines flight. Instances that could have been prevented, if not the harm reduced, had United’s personnel simply taken action sooner.&#8221;
&#8220;In-flight sexual assaults continue to be an ongoing problem during commercial flights, particularly during &#8216;red-eye&#8217; flights,&#8221; the statement continues. &#8220;In 2018, the FBI issued strict warnings to airlines, including United, about the number of sexual assaults increasing at &#8216;an alarming rate.&#8217; United has an obligation to keep its passengers safe.&#8221;
&#8220;Our goal is to shine a light on how assaults can, and are, being made on men, and not just women,” attorneys Darren Darwish and Benji Azizian explain. &#8220;This is significant because assault is assault, regardless of the gender, race, and physical attributes of the victim. Once these characteristics are added into the equation, the usual stigma and social stereotypes associated with sexual assaults are amplified.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/20/nfl-player-united-airlines-lawsuit-sexual-assault/">TMZ</a> reports that United gave the anonymous player a $150 voucher following the incident. They also reported a succinct response from United. &#8220;The safety and well-being of our customers is always our top priority,&#8221; said a spokesperson. &#8220;In this instance, the customer involved was moved to a different seat. Because litigation is now pending, we’re unable to provide further comment.&#8221;
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NFL Player Sues United Airlines For Alleged Sexual Assault On Plane; United Responds

Columbia Law School will welcome a high-profile commencement speaker for its virtual law school graduation ceremony this week, former Vice President &#8212; and likely 2020 Democratic presidential nominee &#8212; Joe Biden. But don&#8217;t expect Columbia&#8217;s professors and administrators, who led the fight to derail Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination over decades old sexual assault allegations to speak out against Biden, despite his own issues.
Biden will appear on livestream, Wednesday, to address Columbia law school graduates and deliver a &#8220;virtual&#8221; commencement address &#8212; the first absentee commencement in Columbia&#8217;s history, <a href="https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/04/22/biden-set-to-address-columbia-law-grads-virtually/?slreturn=20200420135345">according to Law.com</a>.
In a letter to faculty and students announcing Biden&#8217;s speech, Columbia law dean Gillian Lester said that “Vice President Joe Biden is synonymous with public service,” and that “his enduring and exemplary career as a leader, lawyer and public servant sets an example for our students as they prepare to begin their own course as legal professionals.&#8221;
It likely helps that Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee and a favorite among Columbia law faculty, at least <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-columbia-faculty-kavanaugh-tara-reade">according to Fox News</a>, which questioned some of the school&#8217;s most high-profile professors, many of whom were instrumental in the anti-Kavanaugh &#8220;resistance.&#8221;
Columbia law faculty and administration were among the most vocal opponents of Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination, leading both in-person protests, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-law-professors-letter.html?mtrref=www.google.com&amp;gwh=5F6A666D99498650C81B5863DB899072&amp;gwt=pay&amp;assetType=PAYWALL">organizing 2,400 other law professors</a> to sign a letter calling Kavanaugh unfit to serve on the nation&#8217;s highest court. The group, of course, cited Kavanaugh&#8217;s &#8220;temperment&#8221; when questioned about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford&#8217;s allegation that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when the pair were teenagers as proof positive that Kavanaugh did not deserve his Supreme Court seat.
The school itself refused to comment on Biden&#8217;s own issues with alleged sexual misconduct &#8212; he is, of course, accused of sexually assaulting his former Senate aide, Tara Reade, back in the mid-1990s &#8212; but several professors, some of whom were instrumental in the anti-Kavanaugh efforts, spoke to Fox News, and had a difficult time squaring their support for the former vice president with their opposition to the now-Supreme Court Justice.
Many of the most vocal anti-Kavanaugh Columbia professors, Bernard Harcourt (who organized the 2,400-professor letter) and Avery Katz specifically, refused to speak to the network, but a criminal law professor who signed Harcourt&#8217;s letter told the network, &#8220;My opposition to Kavanaugh was based on his temperament,&#8221; not his supposed sexual impropriety (though the two are connected).
&#8220;Jeffrey Gordon, a capital markets and corporate governance professor, told Fox News in an email that he simply did not believe Tara Reade, the former Biden staffer who says her old boss penetrated her without consent in 1993. Gordon added that Ford&#8217;s accusations were not the main reason he opposed Kavanaugh,&#8221; the outlet said.
Although Fox News pointed out that Dr. Ford&#8217;s story had similar inconsistencies to those in Reade&#8217;s, Gordon simply added that he &#8220;tended to believe Dr. Ford.&#8221;
Others simply said they believed Joe Biden and respected his commitment to &#8220;transparency.&#8221;
No protests, by either faculty or students, of Biden&#8217;s commencement speech are planned.

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Columbia Law School Profs Led The Fight Against Brett Kavanaugh. They’re Silent On Their Commencement Speaker, Joe Biden.

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For years, accused students have been at a disadvantage due to the hiding of materials used to train Title IX adjudicators. During lawsuits, accused students are rarely able to obtain the training materials that would show supposedly neutral investigators were actually trained to believe accusers and not the accused.
When those materials were obtained, they showed that Title IX investigators tasked with looking into claims of student-on-student sexual assault were trained to believe that women rarely, if ever, lie about sexual assault. Training materials include the misleading and biased statistic that just 2% of sexual assault allegations are false, which would naturally give investigators the idea that they would be wise to believe the accusation no matter what the evidence suggests, because more than nine times out of 10, they would be right.
As I have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lies-damned-lies-and-campus-sexual-assault-ashe-schow">reported</a> numerous times, the statistic that very few sexual assault allegations are false is simply incorrect. The truth is that we don’t know how many are really false. The 2% to 10% figure only refers to allegations that were proven false and classified by police as such. Using this same logic, one could say just 2% to 3% are true, since that’s how many allegations lead to an arrest, trial, and guilty verdict.
Further, the statistic applies to police reports. College campuses have a much lower bar and a far higher incentive to find for the accuser no matter the evidence, meaning false accusations are likely to be he higher, since they can be used to get a man kicked off campus quite easily.
Title IX training materials that have been released also show schools using the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/junk-science-behind-trauma-informed-investigations-ashe-schow">scientifically unsound</a> “trauma-informed” technique, which teaches adjudicators that classic signs of lying are actually signs of trauma and the truth. For example, trauma-informed training says that women who change their stories about their allegations, or who continue to send friendly and loving messages to their alleged attacker are actually traumatized and trying to process what happened to them.
The training materials and policies developed for the University of Texas System, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/victim-centered-sex-assault-investigations-designed-to-railroad-accused">for example</a>, told investigators to “anticipate” and “counter” defense strategies, rather than simply investigate the facts of the case. School police officers were instructed not to write down detailed reports from multiple interviews with accusers and witnesses, so that the defending student can’t point to inconsistencies in the claims.
When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos introduced new Title IX rules for schools that required them to provide much needed due process to students, the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA), which produces most of the training materials used by colleges (for a hefty price) instructed schools not to post those materials, citing copyright laws.
DeVos has now published the official Title IX guidance, and has altered the section about training materials:
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<li>All materials used to train Title IX personnel:
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<li>Must not rely on sex stereotypes,</li>
<li>Must promote impartial investigations and adjudications of formal complaints of sexual harassment,</li>
<li>Must be maintained by the school for at least 7 years,</li>
<li>Must be publicly available on the school’s website; if the school does not maintain a website the school must make the training materials available upon request for inspection by members of the public.</li>
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Schools must post their training materials. Not doing so would run afoul of the federal government (though many schools will likely flout the new regulations anyway without any political consequences due to media support and the #MeToo movement). Schools will no longer be able to use copyrighted training materials if they can’t post them on their website.
Accused students still have a long road ahead of them before schools and the culture accepts that just because someone is accused doesn’t mean they’re guilty. We’re now taught that accusations are fact (unless you accuse a Democrat) and that if schools don’t punish the accused, even if evidence suggests he is innocent, bad publicity will surely follow.
DeVos’ rules, however, take a big step toward correcting this injustice.
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Betsy Devos

Education Department Says Schools Must Post Previously Hidden Title IX Training Materials

Betsy DeVos

Allegedly, former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s awkwardness with women goes beyond mere unwanted touching and into unwanted skinny dipping.
Writing in the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/13/joe-bidens-disrespect-for-the-secret-service/">Washington Times</a>, Ronald Kessler recalled how several Secret Service agents told him when researching his book, “The First Family Detail,” that Joe Biden stands second behind Hillary Clinton in the ranks for worst assignment to protect – from his penchant for rapidly changing schedules to his, well, &#8220;bizarre&#8221; swimming habits.
&#8220;Mr. Biden’s lack of consideration was even more stunning when it came to female agents, who were offended that the vice president bizarrely swam naked in front of them often daily at his pools at the vice president’s residence in Washington and at his home in Delaware,&#8221; Kessler wrote.
Though this alleged behavior of Joe Biden <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/in-defense-of-naked-joe-biden/375507/">has been circulating the web</a> as far back as 2014, it has seen a revisited in recent days in light of Tara Reade&#8217;s allegation of sexual assault against him. But when news of Biden&#8217;s aquatic nakedness first broke, it barely became a major story mostly because left-wing media outlets dismissed the allegation as mere speculation while trashing the source. Here&#8217;s what Conor Friedersdorf wrote in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/in-defense-of-naked-joe-biden/375507/">The Atlantic</a> at the time:
<blockquote>Let me tell you that virtually no one in the Washington, D.C., political press is scandalized by skinny dipping. But every time it emerges that someone in public life has swam naked, there is widespread, disingenuous playacting on the question. You&#8217;d suddenly think that Maude Flanders was managing the newsroom. While I have no idea if the reporting in the new book on the Secret Service is credible, outlets treating it as credible enough to report have been distracted by skinny-dipping from what is indisputably more important news.</blockquote>
The partisan <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/discredited-author-ronald-kessler-has-next-anti-clinton-gossip-book?redirect_source=/research/2014/07/31/discredited-author-ronald-kessler-has-next-anti/200277">Media Matters got in on the action</a> as well by blasting Kessler&#8217;s credibility, a journalist who previously won two George Polk awards and <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2014/08/01/biden-swims-naked-upsetting-female-secret-service-agents-book-claims">who tipped off the Washington Post in 2012</a> about Secret Service agents visiting prostitutes prior to a presidential visit. Other outlets, such as The Washington Post and The New York Times, trashed Kessler&#8217;s book as “National Enquirer-Style Gossip” and pure speculation based on anonymous sources.
That was in the pre-#MeToo era. Six years later, Biden has since been accused by seven women of inappropriate touching or invading their personal space. Biden&#8217;s former Senate staffer Tara Reade alleges that he forcefully penetrated her with his fingers while she served under him in the U.S. Senate in 1993.
Reade has since detailed her account in multiple interviews and filed a criminal complaint against the former vice president with the Washington, D.C., police department. A former neighbor of Reade and Reade’s brother have both publicly stated that Reade told them of the alleged assault in the 1990s. Recently surfaced evidence also suggests that Reade’s mother called in to CNN’s Larry King in the 1990s to complain about a prominent senator with whom her daughter had “problems.”
The Associated Press has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-new-sources-claim-tara-reade-told-them-about-aspects-of-joe-biden-allegation">reported</a> that two new people, both of whom wished to remain anonymous, said that Reade spoke of Biden’s behavior prior to her going public.
Last week, new evidence emerged that appeared to partly support Reade’s claim when the San Louis Obispo Tribune <a href="https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html">reported</a> on court documents from 1996 that revealed she had complained about sexual harassment in Biden’s senate offices.
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Candidate Joe Biden Delivers Remarks On Coronavirus Outbreak

FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Accused Of Swimming Naked In Front Of Female Secret Service Agents. Media Dismissed The Claim.

After finally addressing former Senate staffer Tara Reade&#8217;s allegation that he sexually assaulted her, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been forced to try to reconcile his party&#8217;s &#8220;Believe Women&#8221; mantra with his assertion that what Reade says took place back in 1993 &#8220;never happened.&#8221;
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 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-dodges-question-on-whether-he-specifically-remembers-tara-reade">said</a> that she encountered Biden alone and, after he greeted her, &#8220;He just had me up against the wall.&#8221; &#8220;It happened all at once,&#8221; Reade told Halper. &#8220;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.&#8221;
Amid mounting pressure to address the accusation after weeks of silence, Biden finally denied it in a statement posted on Medium on May 1, saying the allegations that he &#8220;engaged in misconduct 27 years ago&#8221; simply &#8220;aren’t true&#8221; and &#8220;never happened.&#8221;
Far from putting the allegation to rest, though, Biden has continued to be pressed to square his dismissal of Reade&#8217;s claim with the party&#8217;s larger message on #MeToo accusers. In a moment highlighted by <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/05/12/biden-say-women-believed-mean-media-try-something/">Ed Morrissey</a>, Biden was asked again to address the issue by &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; host George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday, and ended up presenting a notably qualified version of &#8220;Believe Women.&#8221;
&#8220;On these allegations from Tara Reade, I know you deny them, but you’ve also said that women should be believed,&#8221; said Stephanopoulos. &#8220;So what do you say to Americans who believe Tara Reade and won’t vote for you because of it?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, that’s their right,&#8221; said Biden. &#8220;Look here, look, I think women should be believed. They should have an opportunity to have their case and state it just forthrightly, what their case is. Then it’s the responsibility of responsible journalists like you and everyone else to go out and investigate those. The end of the day, the truth is the truth. That’s what should prevail. And the truth is this never happened. This never happened, I assure you. That’s the truth.&#8221;
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As Morrissey points out, Biden&#8217;s comments to Stephanopoulos are all the more interesting when held up next to his comments during the height of the Brett Kavanaugh-Christine Blasey Ford controversy. Speaking to a group of reporters in mid-September 2018, Biden said of Ford&#8217;s uncorroborated accusation dating back over three decades against Kavanaugh, “Oh, I thought she was telling the truth at the beginning. I really did.”
An extensive Senate Judiciary Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-judiciary-committee-report-45-interviews-james-barrett">investigation</a> that involved 45 witness interviews and 25 witness statements ultimately did not find &#8220;any evidence to substantiate or corroborate any of the allegations&#8221; against Kavanaugh, and all of the alleged witnesses named by Ford either denied any knowledge of her claim or flatly refuted it.
After telling reporters he believed Ford&#8217;s uncorroborated claims, the former vice president then made a wider comment on women making public accusations.
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“For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it’s been made worse or better over time. But nobody fails to understand that this is like jumping into a cauldron,&#8221; said Biden, as reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-when-a-woman-alleges-sexual-assault-presume-she-is-telling-the-truth/2018/09/17/7718c532-badd-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html">The Washington Post</a>.
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Biden went on to defend Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s much-criticized handling of the Ford allegation. &#8220;Dianne’s getting beat up now for why didn’t she go forward,” he said. &#8220;The one thing that’s not said is, of all the progress we’ve made in the country, #Metoo, you still have the fundamental question of, what is the individual’s right to come forward or not to come forward?&#8221;
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During the exchange with reporters, Biden also offered some thoughts about his much-maligned handling of the Anita Hill hearings. &#8220;The one regret I have is I wish there had been a way I could’ve controlled the questions,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But you can’t in a committee. Remember, when they went after the last victim [Hill], I kept trying to gavel, but there was no way to say, &#8216;You can’t ask that question.'&#8221;
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For women who come forward with allegations, Biden said, &#8220;For all, it’s damaging. For some, it’s devastating.&#8221;
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The Post notes in its report that when Biden was asked if it mattered that the incident Ford described took place when Kavanaugh was 17 years old, some three and half decades ago, Biden said with a laugh, &#8220;What I’m going to do is I’m not going to answer any more questions.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feinsteins-kavanaugh-comments-come-back-to-bite-her-after-attempt-to-dismiss-reades-biden-allegation">Feinstein’s Kavanaugh Comments Come Back To Bite Her After Attempt To Dismiss Reade’s Biden Allegation</a>
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WATCH: Biden Asked What He’d Say To Americans Who Believe Tara Reade

During the “New Rule” segment of Friday’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO, host Maher lambasted Tara Reade, the former staffer of then-Senator Joe Biden, whom she has accused of sexual assault.
“New rule, just because Fox News is obsessed with the Biden sex assault allegations, it doesn’t mean the rest of us have to be,” Maher began.
“There is no fact-finding here,” Maher said before mentioning several of the alleged contradictions in Reade’s story, as well as the now infamous piece Reade wrote in which she praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We’re letting this person change the subject from Donald Trump, lethal incompetent, to Joe Biden, sex monster,” Maher argued.
The host then castigated the Democratic Party “because they woke themselves into a corner when they adopted #BelieveWomen as their slogan when it should have always been #TakeAccusationsSeriously.”
“Kirsten Gillibrand said of the Al Franken allegations, ‘The women who came forward felt it was sexual harassment, so it was,’” Maher added. “That was never tenable because believing everything doesn&#8217;t make you noble, it makes you gullible and leaves us with a world where Republicans don&#8217;t care about this stuff, so it&#8217;s just a unilateral weapon that is used only against Democrats.”
Maher continued:
<blockquote>Democrats are the party of choice. We can choose not to completely f*** ourselves over this. I know, it&#8217;s a sex scandal, and in normal times that&#8217;s what we do instead of issues, but there are actually some pretty big problems going on right now. I don&#8217;t know if you noticed, but America has turned into a failed state that does a worse job keeping its citizens alive during a pandemic than Cambodia, and to me that&#8217;s a little more important than Tara Reade achieving closure.</blockquote>
The host then took issue with Reade personally, and seemed to suggest that although he cares “in the macro” about sexual assault, people shouldn’t care about Reade’s allegations specifically:
<blockquote>She says Biden attacked her, and he says he didn&#8217;t. Those are their positions. How about this for yours? Don’t know, never will, don&#8217;t care.
I care in the macro about women being attacked, of course, but on this one I&#8217;m with Bogie, who said, “I&#8217;m no good at being noble, but it doesn&#8217;t take much to see that the problems of three little people don&#8217;t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” Everybody says we need to do everything we can to defeat Trump. Yeah, except anything.
Well, I&#8217;m no good at being noble either, but if in 1993 Joe Biden had grabbed my nuts in a corridor &#8230; and I had this knowledge, and revealing it could hurt the guy running against Trump, I&#8217;d save it for my memoirs. I&#8217;d like to think that I&#8217;d have a little more perspective. We have a president who says “drink bleach.” Geez, you waited 27 years, it couldn&#8217;t hold another few months?
That’s what I would like to ask miss Reade. Why now? I&#8217;m not saying why not 27 years ago. I understand, it can take victims years to come forward. I&#8217;m saying, “Why not before Super Tuesday? Why not last fall when we still had a dozen other candidates to choose from? Why wait until Biden is our only hope against Trump, and then take him down?”
This story is gathering an importance it should not have. There is so much at stake in this next election. The entire world needs to be put back together like Humpty Dumpty. Why should one person&#8217;s victimhood Trump everyone else&#8217;s?</blockquote>
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Reade, who worked in the early 1990s as a staffer to then-Senator Joe Biden, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-accuses-joe-biden-of-sexual-assault">claimed</a> that in 1993, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee sexually assaulted her. Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-joe-biden-issues-first-statement-on-tara-reade-sexual-assault-allegation">vigorously denied</a> the claims.
In the weeks following the initial allegation, seemingly corroborative information has come to light, as has information that might cast doubt on the veracity of Reade’s claims. Reade addressed many of the issues during a recent long-form interview with journalist Megyn Kelly, which can be viewed <a href="https://youtu.be/5HeZiKvOA0o">here</a>.
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Bill Maher

Maher Targets Reade On Biden Damage: If ‘Biden Had Grabbed My N***’ In 1993, I Would ‘Save It For My Memoirs’

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On Friday, new details from the alleged sexual assault by Joe Biden on his former Senate staffer Tara Reade emerged during an interview with journalist Megyn Kelly.
Reade told Kelly that Biden used graphic language when he allegedly sexually assaulted her and tried to take things even further.
&#8220;He was kissing my neck area and he whispered, did I want to go somewhere else in a low voice,&#8221; Reade <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tara-reade-biden-graphic-language-during-assault">said</a>. &#8220;He said some other things. I can&#8217;t remember everything he said, but he said something vulgar.&#8221;
&#8220;May I ask what?&#8221; Kelly asked.
&#8220;He said, &#8216;I want to f*** you,’” Reade claimed. &#8220;And he said it low and I was pushing away.&#8221;
Reade later said that she was leaving the Democratic Party.
In late March, Reade documented the alleged assault which she claims happened when a supervisor instructed her to take a gym bag to Biden.
“I handed him the thing. He greeted me. He remembered my name. And then we were alone,” Reade <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-woman-who-accused-biden-of-sexual-assault-files-criminal-complaint-with-police">said</a>. “It was the strangest thing. There was no like exchange really. He just had me up against the wall. I was wearing like a skirt, a business skirt.”
“It happened all at once…his hands were on me and underneath my clothes,” Reade continued. “Yeah, and he went down my skirt but 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. He said several things. I can’t remember everything he said.”
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In April, Reade <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-woman-who-accused-biden-of-sexual-assault-files-criminal-complaint-with-police">filed</a> a report of the incident with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.
Reade&#8217;s claim gained traction and credibility when NewsBusters unearthed an old CNN video clip from 1993 that reportedly showed Reade&#8217;s mother calling into &#8220;Larry King Live&#8221; to talk about a problem that her daughter was having with a &#8220;prominent senator.&#8221;
Transcript of the video:
<blockquote>LARRY KING: San Luis Obispo, California, hello.
CALLER: Yes, hello. I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington? My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.
KING: In other words, she had a story to tell but, out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn’t tell it?
CALLER: That’s true.</blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: HERE is the video from August 11,1993&#39;s &#39;Larry King Live&#39; described by <a href="https://twitter.com/theintercept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheIntercept</a> (and Tara Reade) as allegedly featuring her mother calling in and alluding to Reade&#39;s sexual assault claims against <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> (blog here by <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJW</a>) <a href="https://t.co/fCgEqBnX7n">https://t.co/fCgEqBnX7n</a> <a href="https://t.co/V5FGHskv56">pic.twitter.com/V5FGHskv56</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1253808940573429761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-evidence-emerges-in-tara-reades-sexual-assault-allegation-against-joe-biden">Additional evidence surfaced this week</a> when a local California newspaper found court records from Reade&#8217;s former husband who said in a court document that Reade had told him that she was sexually harassed while working for Biden.
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New Details Emerge On Joe Biden’s Alleged Sexual Assault Of Tara Reade

Students who were dubiously accused of sexual assault through the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s kangaroo court system – even more than a decade ago – will soon have their names made public, along with the offense of which they were accused, and the punishment they received if found responsible.
Noticeably absent from the information will be the details of the allegation, which would help to explain whether the student was wrongly found responsible and to what extent UNC-CH went to find them responsible anyway.
The information release was ordered by the North Carolina Supreme Court last week in response to a lawsuit filed by four news organizations: The Daily Tar Heel campus newspaper, the Charlotte Observer, the Herald-Sun and Capitol Broadcasting, <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article242437976.html">according to the News &amp; Observer</a>. UNC-CH, had previously denied the papers access to the information, saying it would violate the federal student privacy law known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). UNC-CH continued to oppose the lawsuit up to the NC Supreme Court, but it now must release the information to the news outlets, who will no doubt make it public. The information request dates back more than a decade, meaning students who managed to graduate after being accused and have gone on to build productive lives without any additional issues will soon have their lives and careers upended by news outlets trying to prove their alma mater doesn’t take allegations of sexual assault seriously.
UNC-CH has been one of the top targeted schools for this claim, despite numerous stories and lawsuits from accused students who were denied basic due process rights and punished over dubious claims.
One such allegation – which I <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2017/09/27/campus_rape_investigation.html">detailed extensively</a> for Real Clear Investigations back in 2017 – involved a he said/she said situation in which friends of the female accuser said she did not appear drunk yet she still reported to police and campus authorities that she had been raped. She and her feminist attorney would eventually hold a press conference to display what appears to be a digitally altered photograph of the accuser’s neck that made obvious hickeys appear as bruises from choking. UNC-CH eventually found the accused student not responsible based on a preponderance of the evidence, under the new NC Supreme Court ruling, the entire incident could be reported as: [Accused student’s name], the allegation of rape, and the finding of not responsible. Without the details of the allegation, this information will surely be used to claim UNC-CH doesn’t take sexual assault seriously.
The school is also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/education-department-will-review-anti-male-bias-ashe-schow">being investigated</a> by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over allegations of anti-male bias in its policies. An allegation that their Title IX processes were biased against male students would not be investigated.
Accused students typically struggle to clear their name in court due to the overwhelming costs of fighting their schools. Lawsuits against universities for denying constitutional due process rights can cost more than 100,000, meaning low-income students are the most vulnerable to an unfairly ruined reputation. Further, schools refuse to release evidence and documents relating to an accused student’s case, citing FERPA. The schools say that releasing the information violates the accuser’s FERPA rights.
But the NC Supreme Court ruled that FERPA make an exception for such disciplinary records.
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In an op-ed published by NPR this week, Public Editor Kelly McBride, who also serves as chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at The Poynter Institute, admits that NPR was &#8220;<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2020/05/06/850967345/npr-was-too-slow-on-tara-reades-story">too slow</a>&#8221; in its reporting on former Senate staffer Tara Reade&#8217;s sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden — and that &#8220;silence&#8221; ended up feeding &#8220;at least three critical narratives&#8221; about NPR&#8217;s political biases.
&#8220;On March 25, a community radio station in New York aired segments of a one-hour <a href="https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/tara-to-post">podcast</a> interview with Tara Reade, who told a story of being sexually assaulted in 1993 by then Sen. Joe Biden, whom she worked for in his Senate office,&#8221; writes McBride. &#8220;Since then, many of the nation&#8217;s established newsrooms have come under <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-media-has-and-hasnt-covered-tara-reades-allegation-against-joe-biden/">criticism</a> for being too <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/media/joe-biden-tara-reade-new-york-times.html">slow</a> to produce their own reporting on the allegation made against the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.&#8221;
&#8220;The New York Times and The Washington Post both published stories on April 12, two-and-a-half weeks later,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;NPR&#8217;s own original work was broadcast for listeners a week after that, on April 19, closing in on a full month after Reade first went public with her story.&#8221;
That nearly a month-long delay, she acknowledges, &#8220;conveys a lack of urgency on the part of the NPR politics team.&#8221;
So what took NPR, which portrays itself as a politically unbiased source of news, so long to report on the increasingly credible allegation against the Democrats candidate? McBride looked into it and learned from some of the other editors and reporters that they decided their policy on Reade&#8217;s allegations were &#8220;to report only information that its own reporters had independently confirmed.&#8221;
&#8220;It was slow and difficult,&#8221; NPR Managing Editor Terence Samuel told McBride. &#8220;By the time we did our story, the Times did a story, the Post did a story. We did ours after we finally talked to her in person.&#8221;
While McBride says she agrees with the general approach, she admits that taking nearly a month to report on the accusation, and delaying a full week after even the belated reporting of both the Times and the Post, &#8220;hurts.&#8221; The problem, she writes, is that &#8220;NPR&#8217;s silence on the story feeds at least three critical narratives, or perhaps suspicions&#8221; about its political biases (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>1) NPR preferred Biden over Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination (the story broke before Sanders had dropped out, but barely);
2) NPR is reluctant to tell stories that may help President Donald J. Trump&#8217;s re-election effort;
3) NPR is hypocritical, covering claims of sexual assault leveled against Republicans, but burying similar accusations against Democrats.</blockquote>
McBride goes on to detail at length what went on behind the scenes to &#8220;slow&#8221; NPR&#8217;s reporting on the significant and increasingly credible accusation against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, citing a failure to &#8220;assign enough resources to the story at first&#8221; and delays in talking to Reade. &#8220;Ultimately, NPR was slowed down by the frustration and complexity presented by an accusation of an assault that either did or didn&#8217;t happen 30 years ago,&#8221; write McBride. (<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2020/05/06/850967345/npr-was-too-slow-on-tara-reades-story">Read the full piece here</a>.)
While it took NPR nearly a month to report on Reade&#8217;s accusation, NPR, like the rest of the mainstream outlets, promptly reported the various unsubstantiated allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, for which an extensive investigation by the Judiciary Committee and investigations by the FBI ultimately found &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-judiciary-committee-report-45-interviews-james-barrett">no credible evidence</a>.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-evidence-emerges-in-tara-reades-sexual-assault-allegation-against-joe-biden">New Evidence Emerges In Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden</a>
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NPR Editor Admits: NPR’s ‘Silence’ On Biden Accusation Fed ‘Three Critical Narratives’ About Our Bias

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A local California newspaper reported on Thursday that court documents from 1996 show that Tara Reade, who had previously served as a staffer for then-Senator Joe Biden, told her ex-husband that in 1993 she was sexually harassed while working for Biden.
The Tribune <a href="https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/article242527331.html">reported</a> that Reade&#8217;s then-husband Theodore Dronen made the following declaration in court while he was fighting against a restraining order that Reade filed against him after he filed for divorce:
<blockquote>I met Petitioner in the spring of 1993 while working in Washington, D.C. At the early stages of our dating, Petitioner felt comfortable confiding in me as we both worked for Members of Congress, and we shared many other common interests. On several occasions Petitioner related a problem that she was having at work regarding sexual harassment, in U.S. Senator Joe Biden&#8217;s office. Petitioner told me that she eventually struck a deal with the chief of staff of the Senator&#8217;s office and left her position. I was sympathetic to her needs when she asked me for help, and assisted her financially, and allowed her to stay at my apartment with my roommate while she looked for work. It was obvious that this event had a very traumatic effect on Petitioner, and that she is still sensitive and effected by it today.</blockquote>
The Tribune noted that it is important to point out that the statement from Reade&#8217;s then-husband does not state who the person was that was allegedly harassing Reade, just that it happened &#8220;in U.S. Senator Joe Biden&#8217;s office.&#8221;
Then-Biden chief of staff Ted Kaufman disputed Reade&#8217;s claims, telling The Tribune, “I have consistently said what is the truth here — that she never came to me. I do not remember her, and had she come to me in any of these circumstances, I would remember her. But I do not, because she did not.”
Reade&#8217;s sexual assault allegation against Biden, which she made in March of this year, gained traction late last month when NewsBusters unearthed a 1993 video clip of Reade&#8217;s mother calling into CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Larry King Live&#8221; and saying that her daughter was having problems with a &#8220;prominent senator.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-evidence-suggests-bidens-accusers-mother-called-cnn-in-1993-about-allegation-multiple-reports-claim">Transcript</a>:
<blockquote>LARRY KING: San Luis Obispo, California, hello.
CALLER: Yes, hello. I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington? My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.
KING: In other words, she had a story to tell but, out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn’t tell it?
CALLER: That’s true.</blockquote>
Since then, more people have come forward and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-new-sources-claim-tara-reade-told-them-about-aspects-of-joe-biden-allegation">said</a> that Reade told them about the alleged incident.
During a podcast in March, Reade said, “It happened all at once…his hands were on me and underneath my clothes. Yeah, and he went down my skirt but 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. He said several things. I can’t remember everything he said.”
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New Evidence Emerges In Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden

It’s a foregone conclusion at this point that former Vice President Joe Biden would be labeled some kind of sexual predator if he were a male college student today. Even without the sexual assault allegations from Tara Reade, Biden’s documented history of standing too close to women, sniffing their hair, and rubbing their shoulders (as they look uncomfortable) would be enough under his own campus rules to get him expelled or suspended.
Yet with Reade’s allegations that Biden pinned her to a wall, groped her, and digitally penetrated her, Biden has demanded a separate set of rules for himself than those he has advocated for college students over the past decade. Biden wants the presumption of evidence and to be believed when he said he didn’t sexually assault Reade. He also now claims to want Reade not to simply be believed, as he has demanded of all women, but for her to be heard and for her allegations to be rigorously investigated for their truthfulness.
At the same time, Biden is pledging to rescind new Education Department rules that would provide some of these and other basic due process rights for students accused of sexual assault. On Wednesday, Biden released a statement calling the new rules – which require accused students to be presented with the specific allegations against them and to have access to evidence 10 days before a live hearing that includes cross-examination to determine their responsibility – “wrong.”
“And, it will be put to a quick end in January 2021, because as president, I’ll be right where I always have been throughout my career — on the side of survivors, who deserve to have their voices heard, their claims taken seriously and investigated, and their rights upheld,” Biden said.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/college-students-just-received-free-speech-protections-due-process-rights-thanks-to-the-trump-administration">reported</a>, the new rules, issued by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos,  require schools to inform students of the specific allegations against them, presume innocence for the accused, require a live hearing with cross-examination (and a transcript be kept of said hearing), as well as requiring the people who investigate and determine guilt to be different. Also, schools can no longer go against an accuser’s wishes by investigated something they don’t want investigated.
Biden doesn’t want college students to have any of those rights, apparently.
Erin Perrine, Principal Deputy Communications Director for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, said in a statement that Biden wants to hold students and others to a different set of standards than himself.
“Before Tara Reade’s assault accusations, Biden was unwavering in a presumption of guilt for the accused including Brett Kavanaugh,&#8221; said Perrine, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/496518-biden-says-hell-reverse-devos-rule-to-bolster-protections-for-those-accused">according to The Hill</a>. &#8220;That presumption of guilt included the disastrous Title IX regulations under the Obama-Biden administration, making it more difficult on college campuses for the accused to receive a fair hearing and their due process rights. Does Joe still stand by his presumption of guilt for the accused – or has he set a new standard for himself in the face of his own sexual assault accusations from a former staffer?”
Biden purposefully, erroneously joined activists in claiming the new rules allow schools to ignore sexual assault and would hurt “survivors,” even though he has deemed them as such based solely on an allegation without evidence.
“It lets colleges off the hook for protecting students, by permitting them to choose to investigate only more extreme acts of violence and harassment and requiring them to investigate in a way that dissuades survivors from coming forward,” Biden said. “Survivors deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and when they step forward they should be heard, not silenced. Today, Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump published a rule that flies in the face of that belief and guarantees that college campuses will be less safe for our nation’s young people.”
Biden does not appear to see the rank hypocrisy between the standard he wants for himself and for college students.

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Biden: Due Process Rights For Me, But Not For Thee

The Women&#8217;s March, which just weeks ago departed company from other #MeToo-associated groups and called for former Vice President Joe Biden to address claims that he sexually assaulted a former aide, issued a statement this week announcing that it is satisifed with Biden&#8217;s tepid response to the claims and believes Biden is now in a better position to win the 2020 Democratic presidential election.
The Women&#8217;s March invented the &#8220;Believe All Women&#8221; campaign during then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s confirmation hearings, insisting, in a series of speeches, statements, and massive protests, that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who had little to substantiate her claim that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when the pair were teenagers, should be given all benefit of the doubt and Kavanaugh convicted and deprived of a high-level appointment over her claims.
The group insisted, at the time, that Dr. Ford was unimpeachable, and that by merely being accused, Kavanaugh was unfit for service.
Back in April, The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/womens-march-demands-joe-biden-answer-questions-about-sexual-assault-allegations-against-him">Daily Wire&#8217;s Ashe Schow</a> reported that the Women&#8217;s March initially took a hard line on Tara Reade&#8217;s claim that she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden when she worked for him as a Senate aide in the mid-1990s, demanding that he answer questions about the incident and reiterate &#8220;his policy on sexual assault, harassment, and consent.&#8221;
The demand certainly sounded serious. It turns out, though, that the Women&#8217;s March was easily satisifed. After Biden appeared on MSNBC to address the claims last week and issued a tepid statement indicating that he, indeed, &#8220;believes all women,&#8221; the Women&#8217;s March fell in line with other activist groups, including the National Organization of Women, Planned Parenthood, and even Time&#8217;s Up Legal Defense Fund.
&#8220;We are glad to see <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden" data-focusable="true">@JoeBiden</a> take a step in addressing this issue head-on. This is what is necessary to create a culture where survivors can come forward without fear of reprisal. We’ve come a long way on this, but still have a long way to go,&#8221; the Women&#8217;s March tweeted. &#8220;Only <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden" data-focusable="true">@JoeBiden</a> can speak can speak to his past, and we are glad he has begun to do so with his statement. It’s not on survivors or women to answer for him.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://medium.com/@womensmarchinc/womens-march-statement-on-vice-president-joe-biden-9fc8428bc129">separate statement</a>, the group, which claims to take women&#8217;s &#8220;allegations seriously” said Biden &#8220;modeled&#8221; what the proper response to a sexual assault allegation looks like, because he allowed &#8220;for a fair inquiry of the facts to be conducted by journalists or other investigative bodies without interference,&#8221; and the group seemed to pronounce the issue closed.
The statement did not mention Tara Reade by name even once. Instead, the Women&#8217;s March addressed what it believes will be the political implications of Biden&#8217;s interview, claiming that his candor gives him a leg up in the 2020 presidential election.
&#8220;To those concerned about what this means for the election: By addressing these allegations, we are improving our chances of winning in 2020. As we saw in 2018, when women are respected and empowered, we turn out in force,&#8221; they said.
Phew.
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