Evaluating Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden

1. Reade accused Biden of inappropriately touching her neck and hair in media interviews last year, but stopped much short of telling the story she's telling now.
2. Based on available evidence, we can at least be nearly certain Tara Reade's story about Joe Biden has been consistent since 1993.
3. The timing of her new media interviews is interesting as well, but there's also a record of Reade trying to get 2020 Democrats attention on Twitter before the primary narrowed to Biden and Sen.
4. With much more corroborating evidence, Reade's allegation clears the standard of credibility the media and the left applied to Ford, even though they've shifted that same standard for Biden's accuser.
5. We also know that Reade, now 56, told the media her mother called into Larry King Live about the incident after it happened, and that The Intercept and the Media Research Center were subsequently able to verify this by finding the transcript and video clip respectively.
6. On the other hand, Reade believes a record of a complaint she filed with a Senate personnel office exists in Biden's Senate archive, housed at the University of Delaware and sealed until two years after his exit from public life.
7. So what we know with near certainty is that Reade told friends and family that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993.
8. Three of the Biden aides Reade claims to have complained of harassment to in 1993 strongly deny knowledge of such a complaint.
9. But it's entirely secondary to the real matter at hand, which is whether Joe Biden sexually assaulted Tara Reade.
10. We know Biden has a record of overstepping physical boundaries with women, in line with Reade's 2019 allegations of inappropriate touching against him.
11. Given that Reade didn't seem to go to the press (her mother specifically asked King how to resolve the issue without going to the press), it's difficult to know what her incentive for lying only to her own friends and family might have been.

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