Tara Reade Biden allegation megathread

[Ogre Mage]

Is she trying to destroy Kamala too bc she thinks she may be the VP?

That is a solid theory.

[ProudModerate2]

What is even going on any more

At the rate this is going, I am waiting for Reade to say that Biden kidnapped her and impregnated her with extraterrestrial DNA.  All the female politicians Biden is considering for VP inserted a microchip into the back of her neck.  She tried to file a complaint, but the Cigarette Smoking Man made it disappear.  THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.

But on a serious note, this all really makes her look really, really bad and untrustworthy.
And people and the media are just going to say, no way, let's not give her the time-of-day ... she is a little too cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs.

[BudgieForce]

The only people still talking about this story are online news outlets who want to keep trying to make it a thing, and need it for clicks.

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1258922140235116545

It's politico though. They need to fill their weekly "dems in disarray" article quota.

Edit: Again, it's fine to cover this story and the effect it'll have on downballot races. But, Politico sure loves their "democrats are in a pickle" stories. There is another article on the front page about the CA-25 special election on Tuesday. Garcia has a good chance at taking it which is newsworthy, but they wrote an entire article about how CA-25 could prove that democrats wont be able to hold onto suburban voters in the fall. I love politico and browse the site often, I just get tired of the "why this is bad for democrats" narrative.

[pppolitics]

Here is her interview with Megyn Kelly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeZiKvOA0o

[ProgressiveModerate]

Here is her interview with Megyn Kelly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeZiKvOA0o

She's well composed but there's still too many holes in her story. Look at all the YT comments though. Pretty much everyone who watched the video is a Bernie Bro or Trump Supporter

[Hindsight was 2020]

Bill Maher went after Tara Reade in his new rules tonight
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1ZFuvjzYc&feature=youtu.be

[pppolitics]

So Reade is accusing Biden of sexually assaulting her for 3 minutes "in the middle of the senate office, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the corridor".

So how is it possible that either nobody else saw this or kept their mouth shut for this long?

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Another day, another lie

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1258860190469959680

Her lying ass. Kamala put away child predators and made it her mission to eliminate the rape kit backlog in California.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kamala-harris-san-francisco-catholic-church-child-abuse/

[Bidenworth2020]

Bill Maher went after Tara Reade in his new rules tonight
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1ZFuvjzYc&feature=youtu.be

damn. best I have seen on this so far

[7,052,770]

Bill Maher went after Tara Reade in his new rules tonight
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1ZFuvjzYc&feature=youtu.be

damn. best I have seen on this so far

Not really wild about this argument. The facts OVERWHELMINGLY support that notion that Biden is innocent of the finger rape accusation. No one who cares about the truth should be making any argument that leaves the possibility of his guilt on the table, even if it's one that is telling people to vote for Biden.

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Bill Maher went after Tara Reade in his new rules tonight
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1ZFuvjzYc&feature=youtu.be

damn. best I have seen on this so far

Not really wild about this argument. The facts OVERWHELMINGLY support that notion that Biden is innocent of the finger rape accusation. No one who cares about the truth should be making any argument that leaves the possibility of his guilt on the table, even if it's one that is telling people to vote for Biden.

LMAO, calm down man. I'm sure Joe Biden appreciates you fervently defending his honor on a somewhat obscure online political forum lol.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Another day, another lie

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1258860190469959680

Her lying ass. Kamala put away child predators and made it her mission to eliminate the rape kit backlog in California.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kamala-harris-san-francisco-catholic-church-child-abuse/

The Intercept?
Why not some article from the Sputnik comrade?

[GeneralMacArthur]

So apparently we now have access to the action codes for Tara's government career.  Not sure where they came from... but interesting information.

A) Tara had her pay docked twice in February 1993 for misconduct.
B) Tara had her employment terminated -- she was fired, did not resign.
C) Tara also had her employment terminated in January but was rehired a few days later.

Between this and the fact that she got fired a few days after being taken to court for check fraud, it seems there's a lot more to this story.

https://twitter.com/stemthebleeding/status/1258866031847788544?s=21

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

What was the last big break in the story that made Reade actually appear more credible as opposed to less?

[politicallefty]

As Speaker Pelosi said months ago, "All roads lead to Putin."

[wbrocks67]

So Reade is accusing Biden of sexually assaulting her for 3 minutes "in the middle of the senate office, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the corridor".

So how is it possible that either nobody else saw this or kept their mouth shut for this long?

Yeah, this just seems absurd. Even if this *did* happen in some scenario, how stupid would Biden be to do it where anyone could see?

[wbrocks67]

So is this interview something that was just conducted to be posted on Megyn Kelly's YouTube and other social media outlets? Because if that's the case then this interview is hardly different than the Halper one other than that her statements aren't new anymore. I suppose you could argue that Kelly has more name recognition, but she has no big platform anymore. Even Halper and Krystal Ball arguably have more influence than Megyn Kelly these days.

It's weird, Megyn's roll out with the clips seemed like it was meant to build hype but that faded away within hours of her posting them, and no one has even posted about the full interview. I can't tell if no one cares about the interview b/c of the virus, jobs report, etc., or b/c many outlets think this story is losing credibility by the day. Or both.

[roxas11]

So is this interview something that was just conducted to be posted on Megyn Kelly's YouTube and other social media outlets? Because if that's the case then this interview is hardly different than the Halper one other than that her statements aren't new anymore. I suppose you could argue that Kelly has more name recognition, but she has no big platform anymore. Even Halper and Krystal Ball arguably have more influence than Megyn Kelly these days.

It's weird, Megyn's roll out with the clips seemed like it was meant to build hype but that faded away within hours of her posting them, and no one has even posted about the full interview. I can't tell if no one cares about the interview b/c of the virus, jobs report, etc., or b/c many outlets think this story is losing credibility by the day. Or both.

plus the Ahmaud Arbery shooting has also been getting way more attention and has basically overshadowed Megyn Kelly and tara on social media and everywhere else..

[Crumpets]

So Reade is accusing Biden of sexually assaulting her for 3 minutes "in the middle of the senate office, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the corridor".

So how is it possible that either nobody else saw this or kept their mouth shut for this long?

Yeah, this just seems absurd. Even if this *did* happen in some scenario, how stupid would Biden be to do it where anyone could see?

Going to play extreme Devil's Advocate here and say that maybe the Senate was such a boy's club in 1993 and Biden was so powerful that people who did notice just looked the other way and assumed it was consensual? Really the only explanation I can think of, and it's pretty flimsy.

[Landslide Lyndon]

So Reade is accusing Biden of sexually assaulting her for 3 minutes "in the middle of the senate office, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the corridor".

So how is it possible that either nobody else saw this or kept their mouth shut for this long?

Yeah, this just seems absurd. Even if this *did* happen in some scenario, how stupid would Biden be to do it where anyone could see?

Going to play extreme Devil's Advocate here and say that maybe the Senate was such a boy's club in 1993 and Biden was so powerful that people who did notice just looked the other way and assumed it was consensual? Really the only explanation I can think of, and it's pretty flimsy.

We are talking about a period when Bob Packwood was under investigation for sexual harassment of more than a dozen women and every reporter in DC was sniffing around for more cases like his. No way a senior senator like Biden does something like this and goes unnoticed.
And even if there was a big conspiracy afoot don't you think that someone would have alerted Obama when he was about to choose Biden as his VP?

[7,052,770]

So Reade is accusing Biden of sexually assaulting her for 3 minutes "in the middle of the senate office, in the middle of the day, in the middle of the corridor".

So how is it possible that either nobody else saw this or kept their mouth shut for this long?

Yeah, this just seems absurd. Even if this *did* happen in some scenario, how stupid would Biden be to do it where anyone could see?

Going to play extreme Devil's Advocate here and say that maybe the Senate was such a boy's club in 1993 and Biden was so powerful that people who did notice just looked the other way and assumed it was consensual? Really the only explanation I can think of, and it's pretty flimsy.

We are talking about a period when Bob Packwood was under investigation for sexual harassment of more than a dozen women and every reporter in DC was sniffing around for more cases like his. No way a senior senator like Biden does something like this and goes unnoticed.
And even if there was a big conspiracy afoot don't you think that someone would have alerted Obama when he was about to choose Biden as his VP?

That's the kicker that I always come back to.

There's no way Biden could have done this without it being common knowledge, and Reade has claimed that it was common knowledge too. But if it were common knowledge, then Obama, McCain, Romney, the 2008 Democrats, the 2020 Democrats, and all of Biden's senate opponents (1996, 2002, 2008) would have known and somebody would have said something at some point.

[Bomster]

Is this contributing to Biden’s declining polling margin on RCP? I’m very worried about it...

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

Is this contributing to Biden’s declining polling margin on RCP? I’m very worried about it...

Is this your shtick?

[Bomster]

Is this contributing to Biden’s declining polling margin on RCP? I’m very worried about it...

Is this your shtick?

I’m just an incredibly worried person all the time...

[The Mikado]

Is this contributing to Biden’s declining polling margin on RCP? I’m very worried about it...

RCP's average is...well...an average. At the moment there are only five polls in it. Biden's decline is basically totally due to the fact that the IBD/TIPP poll is more heavily weighted because some of the older polls dropped off. Once that poll works its way out of RCP's system, Biden's lead will rise again. RCP has these things where you just have to wait for one really weird poll to work its way through the average and out the other side.