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One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
I mean this story really doesn’t hold up under scrutiny if you take off the “all women need to be believed” goggles. I am saying this as someone who isn’t a fan of Biden but trying to look at this allegation unbiased. Also women should have the benefit of the doubt when they make allegations, but a investigation has to take place to see if it’s true.
In this allegation the timeline is as follows:
I. Reade was harassed by the Biden team and forced to resign by losing responsibilities and being isolated after the team suggested she serve drinks at an event and she refused. Reade highlights she doesn’t even think Biden would know about how she was treated because his staff was protecting the young king.
II. Prior to this, Reade filed a complaint that she felt uncomfortable from Biden’s touching. And compared how he treated her to a lamp.
III. Biden raped Reade.
Now as I see it, these are three allegations that should stand on their own. I and II were released last year. I, II and III all could have happened. But proving I or II would not prove III. Obfuscating them all into one story helps make it easier to get people to believe, on one hand. But it also makes easier to discredit (which is why I don’t get the zeal for the Senate records, because if there is no complaint, that doesn’t discredit III, it should impact II).
Now everyone wants the Delaware records of her complaint unsealed, despite the likelihood that the complaint couldn't be found in there due to sorting issues (and the low odds that the complaint would have been sent to the Ethics committee). The NYT reported they couldn't find it in the Senate. Now, there's a chance that the evidence was destroyed, but I keep running into argumentative problems with how this story is playing out.
The only other corroboration has supposedly been from her neighbor, but if you read the actual article you find that she is not just remembering this from being told about it in the 1990s, and that Reade reached out to her in 2016 to get to know her again and then after that "reminded" her of the story, and told her she was going to go public with more details.
In regards to her mother’s Larry King call. It was framed as proof of her assault, the way it has been presented by some Reade advocates is that it proof of assault and Biden needed to drop out immediately. Except the transcript doesn't say that. It says Reade confided in her mother that she had problems, but there was no specificity. A huge outcry occurred despite the fact that, while the Larry King interview does confirm her mother knew something was wrong, it doesn't say what. Her mother is completely vague in the call about the nature of the complaint. It could have been referring to the fact staffers wanted her daughter to serve drinks or that Biden treated her daughter like a lamp.
Now we find out reporters are coaching Reade witnesses (aka her brother) on how best to get their story out with the least amount of scrutiny and that they should avoid Salon.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven as a quick framing of the story to cause damage to Biden. However, as I said Democrats are so in tune with “believe the victim” they aren’t applying scrutiny to this situation.
In this allegation the timeline is as follows:
I. Reade was harassed by the Biden team and forced to resign by losing responsibilities and being isolated after the team suggested she serve drinks at an event and she refused. Reade highlights she doesn’t even think Biden would know about how she was treated because his staff was protecting the young king.
II. Prior to this, Reade filed a complaint that she felt uncomfortable from Biden’s touching. And compared how he treated her to a lamp.
III. Biden raped Reade.
Now as I see it, these are three allegations that should stand on their own. I and II were released last year. I, II and III all could have happened. But proving I or II would not prove III. Obfuscating them all into one story helps make it easier to get people to believe, on one hand. But it also makes easier to discredit (which is why I don’t get the zeal for the Senate records, because if there is no complaint, that doesn’t discredit III, it should impact II).
Now everyone wants the Delaware records of her complaint unsealed, despite the likelihood that the complaint couldn't be found in there due to sorting issues (and the low odds that the complaint would have been sent to the Ethics committee). The NYT reported they couldn't find it in the Senate. Now, there's a chance that the evidence was destroyed, but I keep running into argumentative problems with how this story is playing out.
The only other corroboration has supposedly been from her neighbor, but if you read the actual article you find that she is not just remembering this from being told about it in the 1990s, and that Reade reached out to her in 2016 to get to know her again and then after that "reminded" her of the story, and told her she was going to go public with more details.
In regards to her mother’s Larry King call. It was framed as proof of her assault, the way it has been presented by some Reade advocates is that it proof of assault and Biden needed to drop out immediately. Except the transcript doesn't say that. It says Reade confided in her mother that she had problems, but there was no specificity. A huge outcry occurred despite the fact that, while the Larry King interview does confirm her mother knew something was wrong, it doesn't say what. Her mother is completely vague in the call about the nature of the complaint. It could have been referring to the fact staffers wanted her daughter to serve drinks or that Biden treated her daughter like a lamp.
Now we find out reporters are coaching Reade witnesses (aka her brother) on how best to get their story out with the least amount of scrutiny and that they should avoid Salon.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven as a quick framing of the story to cause damage to Biden. However, as I said Democrats are so in tune with “believe the victim” they aren’t applying scrutiny to this situation.
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