Joe Biden came out of his silence on Friday 1er May in the morning. The former vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate 2020 has categorically denied accusations of rape made since March 25 by former assistant Tara Reade. "This is not true, it never happened", he assured on the MSNBC channel, a few minutes after publishing a long press release in which he articulated his defense.
"Women deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and when they speak out, they must be heard and not silenced", But "Their stories must be properly investigated and examined", he wrote. "I'm not going to ask myself about her motivations, why she says that, I'm not going to attack her", he added on MSNBC, but "The truth matters (…), I have nothing to hide ".
The facts reported by Tara Reade, who will be speaking on Fox News on Sunday, May 3, date back to 1993, when she worked in Joe Biden's staff team in the Senate. Then elected from Delaware for twenty years, he chaired the legal affairs committee there. 29-year-old Tara Reade says Joe Biden would one day have it "Pressed against a wall" and kissed before the "Penetrate with his fingers". Tara Reade had left Joe Biden's office a few weeks later.
Joe Biden recalled that none of his collaborators at the time, interviewed by the Washington Post and the New york times, had no memory of the episode reported by Tara Reade
Since the accusations were made public, they have been corroborated by several people to whom the young woman confided after moving to California. In 2019, after Joe Biden's declaration of candidacy for the Democratic primary, Tara Reade spoke for the first time to report gestures deemed inappropriate by the former senator dating back to the same period, but she did not mention a rape. On April 9, she made a statement to Washington police in which she claimed to have been "Victim of sexual assault" in 1993, covered by prescription, but without citing the name of Joe Biden.
Tributes to his "old boss"
Very active on social networks, Tara Reade has multiplied tributes to her " former boss " in previous years, including by approving messages relating to its commitment to combating violence against women. She also offered conflicting explanations for her departure from Washington in 1993.
Friday morning, Joe Biden recalled that none of his collaborators at the time, interviewed by the Washington Post and the New york times during in-depth investigations, only remembered the episode reported by Tara Reade. He urged the Senate archives to make public a possible complaint that the young woman would have filed internally at the time of the facts and of which she says she did not keep track. The former vice president also assured that his personal archives, deposited at the University of Delaware, do not contain any private document and that he does not want them to be made public before the presidential election.
The accusation by Tara Reade, who claims to be a Democrat, has been exploited by the Democratic Left, frustrated by the defeat of its champion, Bernie Sanders, as well as by the conservative ecosystem. The latter denounced a democratic "double standard" by opposing the party's attitude in the controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh in 1998 and that adopted today.
When Donald Trump's Supreme Court candidate was accused of a 30-year-old sexual assault, which he fiercely denied, the Democrats assured " believe His alleged victim. The majority of elected officials have supported Joe Biden in recent days, including New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a leader in the #metoo movement. The former senator pledged to choose a woman for the position of vice-president in the November election.
Thursday, April 30, Donald Trump, himself the subject of numerous charges of sexual assault, had deemed it essential that Joe Biden speak, while adding that the former vice-president could be "Falsely" implicated.
