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Cha

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7. The people pushing Ms. Reade's allegation are all invested in seeing Vice President Biden losing.
Sat May 2, 2020, 11:35 PM
May 2020

Bottom line.

..there are two major problems here. The first is that these types of complaints would not have been forwarded to the person alleged to have committed the harassment or assault. They would have been kept with the Senate personnel office to protect Ms. Reade as the person making the allegation.

So there will not be anything in Vice President Biden’s senatorial archive to find. And this leads to the second problem, which we can see in this screen grab of a now deleted tweet from Katie Halper from this morning:

Katie Halper is gaslighting troll.



I tweeted her this..


One final example: Ms. Reade’s formal complaint filed with the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department. The DC Metropolitan Police Department has moved the case to inactive status and closed their investigation after a little more than two weeks. This has been taken by Ms. Reade’s supporters that The DC police are trying to cover up for Vice President Biden. Which followed on them pointing to her filing the formal complaint as evidence that her allegation against Vice President Biden meant that the assault actually happened in 1993. The reality is much simpler, Ms. Reade refused to name Vice President Biden in her complaint. By not doing so, the Metropolitan Police had little choice but to quickly complete their process and inactivate the investigation. But filing the formal complaint was itself an attempt to abuse the process. Filing the complaint was never intended to achieve some form of justice after all these years, but to abuse the process to harm Vice President Biden’s electoral chances. Filing a false police report is itself a crime. By not naming Vice President Biden in her complaint, Ms. Reade cannot be accused of, nor charged with filing a false police report against him if it turns out she is making the allegation up because he is not actually named in the report The report was a means to and end, but that end wasn’t for Ms. Reade to get justice, it was to get all the major newspapers and the broadcast and cable networks to report that a formal criminal complaint alleging sexual assault and rape had been filed against Vice President Biden. The reality is that such a complaint was not filed against Vice President Biden. It was filed against “Subject"

Thank you, Galraedia

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Be sure to read Biden's whole statement. Excellent! LAS14 May 2020 #1
That Is An Excellent Piece, Ma'am The Magistrate May 2020 #2
if you give the GOP access they will be sure to find something, anything librechik May 2020 #3
From Joy Reid Gothmog May 2020 #4
They are doing some serious drugs if they think Bernie Sanders will get the nomination by default Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #9
I am glad that this is being dealt with now, instead of closer to the election Proud Liberal Dem May 2020 #5
These are the remarks @JoeBiden made about Tara Reade Gothmog May 2020 #6
Thank you for this, Goth! Cha May 2020 #8
The people pushing Ms. Reade's allegation are all invested in seeing Vice President Biden losing. Cha May 2020 #7
They want the Democratic party destroyed Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #10
They need to go down on the junk pile Cha May 2020 #14
I think they also want to destroy Metoo and anyone who supported it dustyscamp May 2020 #11
I don't think that...they are using it to attack Democrats...they will be sad if it goes away but it Demsrule86 May 2020 #13
He won't fall for it...it is pretty much over now. Demsrule86 May 2020 #12
This did not age well videohead5 May 2020 #15
Its twofold in reality sunonmars May 2020 #16
Thank you @JoyAnnReid for being brave enough to say what is really going on: Gothmog May 2020 #17
This entire thread is about forcing the nomination out of VP Biden's hands Gothmog May 2020 #18
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