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| New Information Emerges Around Biden Sexual Assault Allegation | |
| 2020-04-30 | |
| [NPR] New information has emerged in recent days about a sexual assault allegation against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, made by Tara Reade, a former staff assistant in Biden's Senate office. For the first time, someone has gone on the record to say that Reade detailed the allegation to her decades ago in the same way Reade is describing it now. A former neighbor of Reade's named Lynda LaCasse told NPR on Wednesday about a conversation the two had approximately 25 years ago regarding the alleged assault. The revelation, first reported by Business Insider, comes with increasing pressure on Democrats to respond, as well as calls from Republicans for the accusation to be examined more openly. LaCasse said she remembers stepping outside her home in California to sneak a cigarette away from her kids sometime in 1995 or early 1996, when she was joined by Reade on her front stoop. They were emotional, discussing custody issues and violence, and she recalls Reade then mentioning Joe Biden, a man she was not particularly familiar with at the time. "I do remember her telling me that Joe Biden had put her up against a wall and had put his hands up her skirt and had put his fingers inside her," LaCasse said. Reade, as detailed in a previous NPR report, has accused Biden of pinning her up against a wall in the hallway of a Capitol Hill building and penetrating her vagina with his fingers in the spring of 1993. The Biden campaign denies the alleged incident, as do longtime Biden staffers whom Reade worked for at the time. The Biden campaign did not specifically respond to the latest developments, but pointed NPR to its previous statement, which said that the alleged incident "absolutely did not happen." Biden has not addressed the accusation himself. As Biden sex assault claim builds, some Jewish women reconsider their support
Petards are uncomfortable things to be hoisted by — kind of like a super wedgie. | |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Some of the NPR people aren't bad. Scott Horsley plays it straight. He's one of the good guys there. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-30 22:28 |
| #8 NPR is running fast to get ahead of the parade in this one — I suspect a calculation that it needs to become old news long before November, Indeed. An alternative explanation is that NPR is actually doing journalism - an explanation I consider preposterous given their daily hair-on-fire hysteria of the last 3 years. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-04-30 22:10 |
| #7 The decision to cancel the NY dem primary meant no delegates were assigned. If under the guise of WhuFlu other state dem primaries are canceled SloJoe would arrive with no lock on the first ballot. Then the free for all begins... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-04-30 20:29 |
| #6 The Dem convention is now set for august. Given the cognitive decline, its hard to believe he'll make it to then. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-04-30 17:01 |
| #5 He won't respond because he's not going to be the nominee. He's just keeping the chair warm until the convention, when he'll pull out for health reasons. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2020-04-30 15:57 |
| #4 TW for the win. Astute. Get it out now when no one's paying attention to anything non-Plague. Sort of like Teddy Kennedy announcing his divorce on the same day that a) Reagan was inaugurated and b) the hostages were released. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-30 14:15 |
| #3 A search of the lady’s name reveals more coverage in the mainstream sites recently. Heavy.com did one of their Five Fast Facts, which includes a video excerpt of the 1993 Larry King Show her mother had called. NPR is running fast to get ahead of the parade in this one — I suspect a calculation that it needs to become old news long before November, or their voters will stay home altogether with catastrophic effects on House and Senate races. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-04-30 14:10 |
| #2 WashPost today had editorial calling for Sundown Joe the Wonder Veep to respond to Qs about the incident and order his records opened. Of course Joe can barely remember what office he is seeking or the difference between his wife and his sister so any "I deny doing it" is essentially meaningless. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-04-30 10:32 |
| #1 NPR's daring to break from the herd. Good for them. Maybe the story won't be entirely spiked by the media whores ... Alternatively, maybe this is the result of DNC whispering as a prelude to getting Plugz to step down. Jig'z Up for Plugz? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-30 09:15 |