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In reply to the discussion: Tara Reade's public incident report does not mention Joe Biden by name. [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)People are not assuming it's false because it's against Biden. That's a bad accusation on your part. People are dismissing it because she has not proven herself credible in the least - based on her past statements.
1) in 2009, she wrote an article about being abused by a partner she was seeing. In the article she mentions Joe Biden by name, touting working for him when he passed the Violence Against Women's Act (the assumption was that her link to Biden's advocacy for women should have made her more aware of the abuse she was going through with her boyfriend at the time - it didn't).
2) in 2017, on her personal Twitter, she consistently praised Joe Biden as a champion of women, RT'd a good amount of pro-Biden articles, some that suggested he should have run in 2016.
3) in 2019, literally a year ago, she finally accused Biden of making her uncomfortable. In an article she wrote for her local paper, she said Biden would touch her shoulder and neck. But also claimed what he did was not sexual. She never accused him of sexual assault. She certainly didn't accuse him of rape. It's a valid question to ask why she had an entire platform to write about Biden and his touching but she omitted a huge chunk of the story about being raped.
4) months later, she claims she was raped by Biden and that she has tried telling her story for a while now. Except she had a chance to back last April and came nowhere near accusing him of rape.
5) she is on the record lying about her support of Russia and Putin. Around 2017, she started posting pro-Russian and pro-Putin articles and tweets. When confronted with this, she said she never supported Putin, except her past, now deleted tweets, say otherwise. So, if she can lie about that, who's to say she isn't lying now?
6) years ago, she stated she left Washington on her own accord because she became disenchanted with American government (and fell in love with Russia). In that 2019 article, she states she was fired by Biden's staff for mentioning how uncomfortable she felt. She admits Biden probably didn't even know she had been fired. Now she claims Biden knew she was fired and was the one who advocated it after she went to someone about being raped.
7) the person she claims she went to with the accusation flatly denies this.
9) she was, as recent as January, a Bernie supporter and sent out vague tweets teasing a story that would bring Biden down.
All this together paints a picture of someone who is not credible and likely why none of the major media outlets are taking it too seriously.