The Associated Press reported on Saturday it interviewed Tara Reade Friday about her allegations that former Vice President and presumptive 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the 1990s when she was an aide in his Senate office but buried that the outlet failed to report on its interviews with Reade in 2019, when she first made public her dealings with Biden.
The AP report claims that in the 2019 interviews - some of which the media outlet said it deleted "In keeping with the reporter's standard practice for disposing of old interviews" - does not specifically cite sexual assault but merely that Reade was "Uncomfortable" with some of Biden's attentions, including that "Biden rubbed her shoulders and neck and played with her hair."
Reade described the report after the AP discovered additional transcripts and notes from its interviews with Reade last year in which she says she "Chickened out" after going to the Senate personnel office.
The AP interviewed Reade in 2019 after she accused Biden of uncomfortable and inappropriate touching.
"A recording of one of the interviews was deleted before Reade emerged in 2020 with new allegations against Biden, in keeping with the reporter's standard practice for disposing of old interviews. A portion of that interview was also recorded on video, but not the part in which she spoke of having 'chickened out' on telling all the details of her interactions with Biden."
One, a former neighbor, said Reade told her about the alleged assault a few years after Reade said it happened.
"One friend, who knew Reade in 1993, said Reade told them about the alleged assault when it happened. The second friend met Reade more than a decade after the alleged incident and confirmed that Reade had a conversation with the friend in 2007 or 2008 about experiencing sexual harassment from Biden while working in his Senate office."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/02/ap-admits-not-reporting-deleting-tara-reade-2019-interview-detailing-charges-against-joe-biden/
The AP report claims that in the 2019 interviews - some of which the media outlet said it deleted "In keeping with the reporter's standard practice for disposing of old interviews" - does not specifically cite sexual assault but merely that Reade was "Uncomfortable" with some of Biden's attentions, including that "Biden rubbed her shoulders and neck and played with her hair."
Reade described the report after the AP discovered additional transcripts and notes from its interviews with Reade last year in which she says she "Chickened out" after going to the Senate personnel office.
The AP interviewed Reade in 2019 after she accused Biden of uncomfortable and inappropriate touching.
"A recording of one of the interviews was deleted before Reade emerged in 2020 with new allegations against Biden, in keeping with the reporter's standard practice for disposing of old interviews. A portion of that interview was also recorded on video, but not the part in which she spoke of having 'chickened out' on telling all the details of her interactions with Biden."
One, a former neighbor, said Reade told her about the alleged assault a few years after Reade said it happened.
"One friend, who knew Reade in 1993, said Reade told them about the alleged assault when it happened. The second friend met Reade more than a decade after the alleged incident and confirmed that Reade had a conversation with the friend in 2007 or 2008 about experiencing sexual harassment from Biden while working in his Senate office."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/02/ap-admits-not-reporting-deleting-tara-reade-2019-interview-detailing-charges-against-joe-biden/
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