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ificandream

(11,836 posts)
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 06:40 PM Mar 2024

Boo hoo: Biden Accuser Tara Reade Is 'Angry' She's Being Ignored by Republicans

By Nick Mordowanec
Staff Writer

Tara Reade, who claims she was sexually assaulted by President Joe Biden and has lived in Russia for nearly a year, continues to seek aid from House Republicans who can provide her an outlet to publicly testify her complaints under oath. Reade, who served as a Biden aide when he represented Delaware as a U.S. senator, made headlines during his 2020 presidential campaign when she filed a criminal complaint with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department alleging that he pushed her against the wall in a Senate corridor in 1993 and penetrated her with his fingers. The president strongly denied the accusations and continues to do so.

The reaction to her complaint ultimately led her to seek refuge in Moscow in May 2023. As of December, she was granted asylum in an expedited process, but remains intent on wanting to share the totality of her story and allegations with Republicans—though interest in making the testimony a public spectacle has seemingly waned. "I'm angry that nobody is helping me," Reade, who describes herself as a political independent, told Newsweek via phone last week from her Moscow residence.

A letter was sent by Reade's attorney, Jonathan Levy, on March 21 to Ohio Republican Representative Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The letter, which was shared by Reade and Levy with Newsweek, explains Reade's intent to testify remotely from any mutually agreeable location regarding her experiences "as the target of an unconstitutional FBI special operation to silence her. Newsweek reached out to Jordan via email for comment.

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates referred Newsweek to comments he made about Reade last year to Fox News Digital when she attempted to become a Russian citizen, saying: "I won't attempt to speak for an aspiring Russian citizen, the convicted Russian spy who's sponsoring her, or the foreign government with which she has chosen to align."

Link: https://www.newsweek.com/biden-accuser-tara-reade-angry-shes-being-ignored-republicans-1883078

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ificandream

(11,836 posts)
2. The fact this woman can't get any support from someone like Jim Jordan is irrelevant?
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 06:47 PM
Mar 2024

That's the real point of the story.

Takket

(23,705 posts)
4. even Jungle Gym isn't going to try and pass that off as fact
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 06:49 PM
Mar 2024

she wanted putin, she can have him. hope the rest of her life is miserable as hell

hlthe2b

(113,872 posts)
5. I recall the NYT, WAPO and many others did extensive investigations...
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 06:52 PM
Mar 2024

and came up with nothing among countless "friends," and acquaintances except that she had a penchant for lying about any number of things (graduating from college being but one). Given this all came to public attention during the peak "Me Too" movement when most MSM were quite careful to carefully investigate and not make negative assumptions any claims of "whitewash" seem very unlikely.

So, maybe Putin will be your best sympathetic ear, Tara?

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,485 posts)
6. I thought she defected to Russia
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 06:55 PM
Mar 2024

Oh, that's rich:

"'I'm angry that nobody is helping me,' Reade, who describes herself as a political independent, told Newsweek via phone last week from her Moscow residence."

Right. An American "independent," lives in Moscow and calls Newsweek to bitch about being ignored by MAGAts. JFC what a stupid pathetic liar.

"The reaction to her complaint ultimately led her to seek refuge in Moscow in May 2023."

OMG, who wrote this garbage? What kind of imbecile "seeks refuge" in fucking Moscow???

What a sorry sack of crap.

betsuni

(29,055 posts)
8. Sees herself dramatically defecting to Russia in an Opposite World scenario of
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 07:26 PM
Mar 2024

when Mikhail Baryshnikov and others defected to the West for artistic freedom. LOL.

betsuni

(29,055 posts)
7. Too crazy even for Republicans...
Mon Mar 25, 2024, 07:15 PM
Mar 2024

I'm sure she tried shopping her tell-all book to publishers but they weren't interested in "My Story: The Fateful Day I Wore Crotchless Panties to Work and Sex-Beast Joe Biden Attacked Me in a Fit of Uncontrollable Passion."

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