Tara Reade rape allegation aftermath megathread

[sguberman]

BTW Tara is still trying to push her story she wrote on OP in RT after AOC came out and said she was assaulted. I keep feeling like someday maybe after the pandemic something new comes out about her story and she gets some attention I don't know why but I feel like that's going to happen.

[DaleCooper]

I don't think she'll ever get any mainstream media attention again. At least none to discuss her allegation; maybe she'll get some coverage for other actions.

[sguberman]

Did anyone actually read her book? If anyone here did what does she say?

[DINGO Joe]

Did anyone actually read her book? If anyone here did what does she say?

If you haven't, I don't know who would.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Who cares?

[MR DARK BRANDON]

anyone heard from her recently or is she crying fraud. has she admitted she was paid under the table, i think she was. the whole thing will start to make sense

and also she had to go to the hospital for heart problems

Omg I’m so sorry to hear that I hope she’s better!

[sguberman]

anyone heard from her recently or is she crying fraud. has she admitted she was paid under the table, i think she was. the whole thing will start to make sense

and also she had to go to the hospital for heart problems

Omg I’m so sorry to hear that I hope she’s better!

She was out after a few days I am sure she is fine.

[Motorcity]

BTW Tara is still trying to push her story she wrote on OP in RT after AOC came out and said she was assaulted. I keep feeling like someday maybe after the pandemic something new comes out about her story and she gets some attention I don't know why but I feel like that's going to happen.

Didn't PBS disapprove her theory and prove she was fired for lying about check fruad in the 90s?

She is a liar who tried to bring down the only man capable of saving our democracy. Imagine if she came out in Oct before she could be disproven. Than Trump wins and we no longer have free elections while he abolishes the welfare state.

[7,052,770]

Didn't PBS disapprove her theory and prove she was fired for lying about check fruad in the 90s?

You can't really "disprove" that something happened, but...

• she changed the location of the alleged assault multiple times as each one was shown to be impossible (even changing the building eventually),
• the timing doesn't ever work out with Biden's published work schedules and returning home to Delaware every night,
• not a single person from Biden's office that she claimed to have told at the time (nor people in all the other offices who she claims knew about it, as she claims it was widely known throughout the building and responsible for her not finding another job there) have corroborated it or even remember hearing about it (not a single one, including Trump-supporting Republicans!),
• the complaint she claims to have filed at the time does not exist,
• her friends/family members that initially said they remember her talking about it at the time have recanted,
• in order for her story to be true, she would have had to come to work on Capitol Hill without pantyhose or panties and not been sent home for a flagrant dress code violation
• no other accusers have come forward to say that Biden did something similar to them, meaning it would have to be a freak one-time thing that he never did again,
• she had a clear political motive and freely admitted that she was coming forward to try to throw the nomination to Bernie.

So, you'd have to desperately anti-Biden to think this is even slightly likely to be true. You might handwave one of those things away, but it's just too much to look past.

[BlueSwan]

Didn't PBS disapprove her theory and prove she was fired for lying about check fruad in the 90s?

You can't really "disprove" that something happened, but...

• she changed the location of the alleged assault multiple times as each one was shown to be impossible (even changing the building eventually),
• the timing doesn't ever work out with Biden's published work schedules and returning home to Delaware every night,
• not a single person from Biden's office that she claimed to have told at the time (nor people in all the other offices who she claims knew about it, as she claims it was widely known throughout the building and responsible for her not finding another job there) have corroborated it or even remember hearing about it (not a single one, including Trump-supporting Republicans!),
• the complaint she claims to have filed at the time does not exist,
• her friends/family members that initially said they remember her talking about it at the time have recanted,
• in order for her story to be true, she would have had to come to work on Capitol Hill without pantyhose or panties and not been sent home for a flagrant dress code violation
• no other accusers have come forward to say that Biden did something similar to them, meaning it would have to be a freak one-time thing that he never did again,
• she had a clear political motive and freely admitted that she was coming forward to try to throw the nomination to Bernie.

So, you'd have to desperately anti-Biden to think this is even slightly likely to be true. You might handwave one of those things away, but it's just too much to look past.

Exactly. No objective person could look at the evidence and find her story worthy of trust.

[DaleCooper]

Those reasons listed above are why no credible news outlet, including even Fox, were willing to run with this story at first. It was leftwing disinformation outlets, followed by rightwing propaganda, that picked it up and ran with it. Rather than report that there were many reasons that the allegation was not credible and then move on, almost all of mainstream news ran with it and protected themselves by prefacing all their coverage with some equivalent of "Many people are saying . . ." Once Reade was revealed to have committed perjury multiple times, often specifically regarding her experience as a Biden staffer, the mainstream media had no choice but to drop it completely and by then the disinformation outlets had moved onto the next thing. The whole thing revealed a lot of disturbing realities about the media and America's willingness to make up its mind on allegations regardless of evidence.

[sguberman]

I figured I should show you guys this
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1371068664221478916

[Bootes Void]

I figured I should show you guys this
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1371068664221478916

I think you would struggle to find people who would care at this point even concern trolling while at it

[sguberman]

I figured I should show you guys this
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1371068664221478916

I think you would struggle to find people who would care at this point even concern trolling while at it

You may think this but there are definitely many people who still believe her and got into a twitter fight with one of them a few days ago for over an hour.

[brucejoel99]

I figured I should show you guys this
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1371068664221478916

"A year later, a liar tries to get her story straight."

[Crumpets]

I figured I should show you guys this
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1371068664221478916

I think you would struggle to find people who would care at this point even concern trolling while at it

You may think this but there are definitely many people who still believe her and got into a twitter fight with one of them a few days ago for over an hour.

Why?

[sguberman]

I figured I should show you guys this
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1371068664221478916

I think you would struggle to find people who would care at this point even concern trolling while at it

You may think this but there are definitely many people who still believe her and got into a twitter fight with one of them a few days ago for over an hour.

Why?

The user kept handwaving anything that contradicted reade.