How will the media handle Bidens sexual assualt allegation? NYT tweet lets us know...just amazing

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My buddy Squirel got the advance copy of the questions MSNBC is going to ask Sleepy Joe.

MSNBC: Can you confirm, as the NYT, Washington Post, and many, many other credible news organizations have already reported through thorough, exhaustive investigative efforts, that the Russian asset Tera Reade's unbased allegation regarding you doing a little sniffing and touching is total BS?

Sleepy Joe: Yes (don't say anything else here)

MSNBC: Now let's talk about ice cream and Scranton.
 
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StarRaider said:
My buddy Squirel got the advance copy of the questions MSNBC is going to ask Sleepy Joe.

MSNBC: Can you confirm, as the NYT, Washington Post, and many, many other credible news organizations have already reported through thorough, exhaustive investigative efforts, that the Russian asset Tera Reade's unbased allegation regarding you doing a little sniffing and touching is total BS?

Sleepy Joe: Yes (don't say anything else here)

MSNBC: Now let's talk about ice cream and Scranton.
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Franklin Pierce said:
Biden Refuses to Release Senate Records that Could Shed Light on Sex Assault Claims, But His Operatives Were Sent to Look Through Them

The Biden campaign has called Tara Reade’s claim false but Joe Biden himself has not yet personally responded to the question.

That’s at least in part because the media hasn’t even asked the question of him, despite innumerable interviews with him over the past few months.

Reade alleges that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Senate hallway and had previously sexually harassed her including by inappropriately touching her shoulders. Reade says that she complained to superiors on Biden’s staff about sexual harassment but was rebuffed and nothing was done. After she was allegedly sexually assaulted and spurned Biden, she says she was then removed from her position supervising interns.

Biden staffers, reached out to by various news organizations have denied that there was any complaint. The campaign denied the claims. In March, Katie Bedingfield, Biden’s communications director, said that “women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so, because these accusations are false.”

Reade has demanded he release his Senate records for review from the time. The papers, 1875 boxes full, are being held by the University of Delaware “until two years after he retires from public life.” But the University has refused to reveal the nature of the agreement with Biden and Biden has done nothing to comply with requests to release the papers or clear up the issue, prompting people to question why.


Now there’s more that doesn’t look good for Biden. Turns out not only is he refusing requests to release the papers, but the campaign is clearly curious about what’s in the records and dispatched operatives on at least one occasion to look through the records, according to the Business Insider.
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Andrea Boyle Tippett, a spokeswoman for the University of Delaware, confirmed to Insider that individuals from the campaign have accessed the collection since Biden announced his presidential campaign in the spring of 2019. She added that the University of Delaware’s library closed in mid-March due to the coronavirus, and that no one from the Biden campaign has gone to the library since its closure.​
If he’s innocent and what they claimed was true, why would he have operatives looking through the records? They claimed there were never any complaints so what is there to look for, if their claims are true? This also raises the question if operatives had access to the records if some might have “accidentally disappeared” from the collection.
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[Reade] said that while she didn’t tell anyone at Biden’s office about the alleged assault, she did complain to superiors about harassment and being made to feel uncomfortable. She said she met formally and informally with several Biden aides —including his former chief of staff Ted Kaufman — about her concerns, like allegedly being told she dressed too provocatively and being asked to serve drinks at a fundraiser because Biden liked her legs. She believes notes from those discussions would be in any personnel files the archives might contain.

“Ted Kaufman took notes when I spoke with him,” Reade told Insider. “He’s now denying that we ever had the meeting, and I watched him take notes. Those notes would be in my personnel file, along with sick days or any kind of extra notes that I turn in,” she said, adding that the archives might contain documentation of what she says was an effort to force her to resign after she came forward about the alleged harassment.​
Kaufman, who is helping Biden form his “transition team” (don’t you have to actually win to have one of these mean anything?), said he never met her and denied it.
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“She did not call me, she did not come to me, I would remember her if she had, and I do not remember her,” he said. “Now remember, this is thirty years ago, and she was a very junior staffer from everything that other reporters have told me.”

In March, the Biden campaign released a statement from Marianne Baker, his long-time executive assistant, saying she had never come across any accusations of harassment within the office: “In all my years working for Senator Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period — not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone.”​
This seems highly unlikely, given the multiple women who complain that Biden touched them inappropriately over the years. Several of them came forward last year. But just one more reason we should see the records.

The records cover the period from 1973 to 2009. They were given to the University in 2011 and the agreement at the time said they would be sealed “for two years after he retires from public office.” But then, the day before Biden launched his campaign, it was changed to the later of either December 31, 2019, or when Biden “retires from public life” without defining what that meant. Tippett is now saying “two years” from that point, extending it still further. Michael Crespin, director of the Carl Albert Center at the University of Oklahoma, which houses the archives of more than 60 former members of Congress, says he’s never seen such a revision before.

Business Insider has filed requests with the University for the agreement for holding the collection as well as the sign in sheets for anyone who may have had access to it. The University has turned turn the Washington Post’s requests for the same information.

Reade says she also filed a formal complaint about the sexual harassment with a Senate office. But it’s not clear what happened to that complaint or where the records from such a compliant front that period of time might be. But it too would likely be sealed for 50 years, according to Business Insider.

Biden Refuses to Release Senate Records that Could Shed Light on Sex Assault Claims, But His Operatives Were Sent to Look Through Them
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Watched the interview. I thought Mika did a good job. No softballs IMO. Hammered him on why he wouldn't let the records at the University of Delaware be searched. He never did give a good answer to that, just kept insisting nothing would be there. He walked back what he said when Kavanaugh was accused, which was "women must be believed". Now he's all about investigation and evidence. Funny how things change when you're the one accused.
 
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Weezer said:
Watched the interview. I thought Mika did a good job. No softballs IMO. Hammered him on why he wouldn't let the records at the University of Delaware be searched. He never did give a good answer to that, just kept insisting nothing would be there. He walked back what he said when Kavanaugh was accused, which was "women must be believed". Now he's all about investigation and evidence. Funny how things change when you're the one accused.
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Mika is actually a good interviewer. I haven't watched yet, so I immediately think you are lying.
 
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carlos86 said:
She’s changed story again.
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When Kavanaugh was accused, were you so quick to point out all of the inconsistencies in Ford's story? Or is the fact that it's Biden accused that has you so interested in trying to debunk this woman's claims? I'm just curious. Where do you stand on believing women?
 
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Mika is actually a good interviewer. I haven't watched yet, so I immediately think you are lying.
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Lying about what? I said she did a good job. And Biden never did give a good answer on why he won't let the UD records be searched.
 
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carlos86 said:
She’s changed story again.
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Just like Blase Ford. So let's treat it the very same way. Full court press with hearings and headlines, #metoo Hollywood support.

First, Ford’s testimony that the assault occurred in the summer of 1982, when just 15, conflicted with both her therapist’s notes and the text message Ford sent to the Washington Post. According to reporter Emma Brown, Ford claimed she had been assaulted in the mid-1980s; and the therapist’s notes stated Ford had been the victim of an attempted rape in her late teens. But by that time, Kavanaugh was attending Yale, so Ford’s recasting of the attack to the summer of 1982 is suspect.

Ford’s retelling of the alleged sexual assault also included several conflicting accounts of the number of individuals at the gathering. The therapist’s notes stated that four boys had attempted to rape Ford. (Ford claims her therapist confused the total number of boys at the party with the number of boys who had attacked her.)

Later, in her July letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Ford again placed the number of individuals at the party at five, stating the gathering included her and four other individuals. But Ford then identified the four by name, and that group included three boys and one girl. And finally, during her Senate testimony, Ford unequivocally stated that “there were four boys I remember specifically being there,” in addition to her friend Leland Keyser.

Another significant change in the scenario came when Ford testified about the location of the party. She had originally told the Washington Post that the attack took place at a house not far from the country club. Yet, when Mitchell revealed a map of the relevant locations and reminded Ford that she had described the attack as having occurred near the country club, Ford backtracked: “I would describe [the house] as it's somewhere between my house and the country club in that vicinity that’s shown in your picture.” Ford added that the country club was a 20-minute drive from her home.

Finally, Ford altered her description of the interior layout of the home and the details of the party and her escape. A “short” stairwell turned into a “narrow” one. The gathering moved from a small family room where the kids drank beer (and which Ford distinguished from the living room through which she fled the house) when she spoke to the Washington Post, to a home described in her actual testimony as having a "small living room/family room-type area.” And in an obvious tell to the change, Ford suggested that she could draw a floor plan of the house.

These four points are significant. First, because Ford had waited 30-plus years to report the purported attack, a therapist’s notes from Ford's sessions with her husband countered claims that Ford had invented the assault to derail Kavanaugh’s confirmation. But the notes did not name Ford’s attacker. And the timing of the assault summarized by her therapist, whom Ford saw individually the following year, conflicted with Ford’s current claims against Kavanaugh.

The final three contradictions are even more significant because in each circumstance Ford altered her story only after Kavanaugh and Senate investigators had obtained evidence to disprove her original tale.

Read more here: Christine Blasey Ford can't keep her Kavanaugh assault story straight
 
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Boca Vol said:
It's not about what her story is or if she's FOS. That's not the point.... see LBF.

The Dems created the playbook that ALL WOMEN SHOULD BE BELIEVED. Biden deserves the same treatment as Kavanaugh.
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Biden deserves the same treatment as Candidate Trump.
 
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Weezer said:
When Kavanaugh was accused, were you so quick to point out all of the inconsistencies in Ford's story? Or is the fact that it's Biden accused that has you so interested in trying to debunk this woman's claims? I'm just curious. Where do you stand on believing women?
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This truly underlines what a shameful chapter in history the Kananaugh hearing was and how stupid the concept of #believeallwomen is. We can take things seriously without checking our brains at the door.
 
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GAVol said:
This truly underlines what a shameful chapter in history the Kananaugh hearing was and how stupid the concept of #believeallwomen is. We can take things seriously without checking our brains at the door.
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It's not okay to hold sides to different standards, especially based off of politics. But it's impossible to convince some people of that.
 
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