Axelrod: Obama team fully vetted Biden in 2008 and found no hint of former aide's allegation

[RandySF]

Through that entire process, the name Tara Reade never came up. No formal complaint. No informal chatter. Certainly, no intimation of sexual harassment or assault from her or anyone else. The team of investigators, expert in their work, would not have missed it.

Reade did not surface her allegations of a criminal sexual assault when Biden was a candidate for president in 2008, nor did she offer them confidentially to the Obama vetting team when Biden emerged as a principal contender for vice president later that year.

Had any credible issue been raised, you can be sure Biden would not have been the nominee. Obama would not have tolerated it, even if he and Biden were close then, which they were not. Their friendship grew only after Biden joined the ticket and through their eight-year partnership in the White House. At that time, they were distant Senate colleagues and most recently rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.




https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/01/opinions/biden-tara-reade-allegations-2008-vetting-axelrod/index.html

[madaboutharry]

1. This is exactly what my thoughts are.

Biden was vetted when Obama put him on the ticket. This allegation wouldn’t have been missed.

[Trueblue Texan]

3. I completely agree...

I’m sure Republicans intend to hire others to sully Biden’s name. But the fact that he’s been fully vetted more than once throws doubt on any other would-be accusers. I think if Republicans pull this dirty stunt, they will simply be drawing more attention on Trump’s multiple sexual predator behaviors.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. True but Tara Reade is part of the "Bernie or bust" crowd

They're pushing this pretty hard on Twitter right now.

Not that the Republicans won't take advantage of this.

[PatSeg]

5. Yes

Obama is extremely precise and calculated in everything he does. Any vetting of a VP candidate would have been extremely thorough, leaving no room for doubt.

[R B Garr]

8. Exactly, and that's why I'm sticking with Obama's vetting.

Plus, she supposedly kept all her personnel files, so surely she would have kept a copy of the complaint about someone committing violence on her, apparently up against a wall in the Senate building...

[Auggie]

2. This needs to be the default response IMHO

[spanone]

6. Of course they didn't....because IT DOESN'T EXIST.

They are trying to do to Joe Biden what they did to John Kerry.

[underpants]

10. The Delaware documents are the new But her emails

They know we’ll never see them and that is the actual point - but but but what about Delaware?!???

MSM will repeat to keep it a two horse race.

[spanone]

11. Exactly.

[R B Garr]

7. And Reade herself was silent! It's only since Biden has

thoroughly demolished Sanders in the primary voting results has Reade presented her escalating accusations.

[get the red out]

9. Breitbart

Some liberals have started passing a damned Breitbart article on twitter claiming more accusations, one guy who has a check mark stated the accusations without linking to the article, but he claims to want full disclosure.

[DIVINEprividence]

12. Feminists need to denounce Tara Reade

She is clearly a scammer con artist and full of it. The link below lays it all out with documents and evidence. It is damning and overwhelming. To make a false accusation like this only hurts true victims of sexual assault. Feminists need to call her out and forcefully condemn her.

http://ascammersnightmareisjustice.blogspot.com/2020/04/tara-reade-legacy-of-lies-part-one.html?m=1

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. K&R

[dalton99a]

14. Kick

[demtenjeep]

15. exactly what I said

Vetted every which way and found NOTHING


Uncle Joe is going to be MY PRESIDENT