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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy I'm skeptical about Reade's sexual assault claim against Biden: Ex-prosecutor
He makes a lot of strong points.
[link:https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/29/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-column/3046962001/|
Teisofo
(18 posts)To show emails or texts of Reade stating she was raped.
They have nothing.
JI7
(89,248 posts)but it's pushed by certain types .
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)(The Putin/Trump campaign, no doubt).
BlueLucy
(1,609 posts)Teisofo
(18 posts)She knows what she's doing. She got fired and wants revenge and she getting paid to go from touching to rape.
JustAnotherGen
(31,818 posts)It's a point by point way to refute Russians on Social Media.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)eilen
(4,950 posts)as are her corroborators. And the Larry King "tape" is a deep fake.
Personally, I think it is not solely a Republican strategy, sadly.
Hav
(5,969 posts)We have no way to know whether it was indeed her mother. And more importantly, that person said that her daughter didn't want to go to the press out of respect to the Senator. If that was her mother, then I don't know how it could be clearer that it wasn't Biden that hurt her. Someone assaulted you but out of respect to that person you don't want to go to the press, let alone file charges? It just makes no sense and it's ridiculous that this call is seen as a piece to corroborate her claims.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Biden. Then I see the Trump team & Junior pushing this before it get out there it sure make me wonder how they have the insider scoop.
She made a police report to the agency that has no jurisdiction, she never mentions his name, the police placed it as inactive. This sure seems like its all done in a manner where he can't actually respond and her allegations keep changing. Reports that should exist don't, she says that' s because he has them locked down. There is always another answer.
Hav
(5,969 posts)She is just not believable because she isn't even close to having a consistent story to tell. She changed it once it didn't get enough traction besides all the other minor parts of that story that changed over time. It's lies build on lies that she cannot give up at this point. I've seen this behavior and the inability to give it up in other areas and these kind of people are very persistent when it's about keeping up that charade.
jmg257
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Teisofo
(18 posts)You are really a fan of her.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)And why the mother would call TV about it.
Maybe she's nuts?
nsd
(2,406 posts)It had this to say about the Larry King call.
"The Larry King call. Last week, new "evidence" surfaced: a recorded call by an anonymous woman to CNN's "Larry King Live" show in 1993. Reade says the caller was her mother, who's now deceased. Assuming Reade is correct, her mother said: "Im 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."
As a prosecutor, this would not make me happy. Given that the call was anonymous, Reades mother should have felt comfortable relaying the worst version of events. When trying to obtain someones assistance, people typically do not downplay the seriousness of an incident. They exaggerate it. That Reades mother said nothing about her daughter being sexually assaulted would lead many reasonable people to conclude that sexual assault was not the problem that prompted the call to King.
Reades mother also said her daughter did not go to the press with her problem out of respect for the senator. Ive never met a woman who stayed silent out of respect for the man who sexually assaulted her. And it is inconceivable that a mother would learn of her daughters sexual assault and suggest that respect for the assailant is what stands between a life of painful silence and justice.
The "out of respect" explanation sounds more like an office squabble with staff that resulted in leaving the job. Indeed, in last year's interview with The Washington Post, Reade laid the blame on Bidens staff for bullying her. She also said, I want to emphasize: Its not him. Its the people around him.
Stern does a good job of dissecting the case point by point. Much better and more objective than the accounts in places like Slate, The Atlantic, and so on.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)not everyone makes its there.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)been "converted" by those who want to use her as a tool for their bigger purposes.
McCorvey has had emotional stability issues for most of her life, and will gravitate to those who will give her needs the most attention and validity, and will happily validate their own agenda in return.