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In reply to the discussion: Why I'm skeptical about Reade's sexual assault claim against Biden: Ex-prosecutor [View all]Cha
(297,154 posts)16. People who contradict Reade's claim..
People who contradict Reades claim. After the alleged assault, Reade said she complained about Biden's harassment to Marianne Baker, Bidens executive assistant, as well as to top aides Dennis Toner and Ted Kaufman. All three Biden staffers recently told The New York Times that she made no complaint to them.
And they did not offer the standard, noncommittal I dont remember any such complaint. The denials were firm. She did not come to me. If she had, I would have remembered her, Kaufman said. Toner made a similar statement. And from Baker: I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct (by Biden), period." Baker said such a complaint, had Reade made it, "would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager.
The lie about losing her job.
Reade told The Union that Biden wanted her to serve drinks at an event. After she refused, "she felt pushed out and left Biden's employ," the newspaper said last April. But Reade claimed this month in her Times interview that after she filed a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate personnel office, she faced retaliation and was fired by Bidens chief of staff.
Leaving a job after refusing to serve drinks at a Biden fundraiser is vastly different than being fired as retaliation for filing a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate. The disparity raises questions about Reades credibility and account of events.
Reade told The Union that Biden wanted her to serve drinks at an event. After she refused, "she felt pushed out and left Biden's employ," the newspaper said last April. But Reade claimed this month in her Times interview that after she filed a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate personnel office, she faced retaliation and was fired by Bidens chief of staff.
Leaving a job after refusing to serve drinks at a Biden fundraiser is vastly different than being fired as retaliation for filing a sexual harassment complaint with the Senate. The disparity raises questions about Reades credibility and account of events.
►Compliments for Biden. In the 1990s, Biden worked to pass the Violence Against Women Act. In 2017, on multiple occasions, Reade retweeted or liked praise for Biden and his work combating sexual assault. In the same year, Reade tweeted other compliments of Biden, including: My old boss speaks truth. Listen. It is bizarre that Reade would publicly laud Biden for combating the very thing she would later accuse him of doing to her.
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Why I'm skeptical about Reade's sexual assault claim against Biden: Ex-prosecutor [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 2020
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What about the neighbor? We need to address that itself, she said Reade told her about Biden
uponit7771
Apr 2020
#4
I didn't hear the "years after" part in Hayes telling of the account. I wish he would've added that
uponit7771
Apr 2020
#9
I did and grepped for neighbor the article used friends and the accounts to them were not ...
uponit7771
Apr 2020
#11
THX !!! I wish Hayes had reported this & fact that the story to the neighbor wasn't contemporaneous
uponit7771
Apr 2020
#13
Just to read her purple propagandist Putin loving tweets is to discount her story. And then she
emmaverybo
Apr 2020
#21