Amid Joe Biden's bid for the White House, Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer, claimed the presidential hopeful sexually assaulted her in 1993. As President Donald Trump is believed to use this case against his opponent, the presidential nominee insisted the allegations "never happened."
Joe Biden released a statement denying Tara Reade's sexual assault claims. The presumptive Democratic nominee for president in the 2020 election felt the need to address the issue as the pressure started to build up on him.
"While the details of these allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault are complicated, two things are not complicated," he said, via CNN. Although he knew women should be "treated with dignity and respect" and be "heard, not silence," whenever they came forward, their stories still needed to be investigated and scrutinized.
Joe Biden insisted that the responsible news organizations should examine and evaluate the inconsistencies in Tara Reade's story, which constantly changes. One of the contradicting claims the complainant made was when she said that she raised the issue to her supervisor and senior staffers from his office. However, they stressed that she never came to them or even raised any complaint about the former vice president.
News organizations talked to former senator's former staffer and found no one would attest to the alleged victim's claims. Hence, he is "saying unequivocally; it never, never happened. It didn't. It never happened."
Anyhow, as new potential evidence about the alleged sexual assault complaint surfaced over the past few days, there are allegations that accusations made against Joe Biden were not "seriously vetted." According to The Washington Post, Donald Trump is planning to "weaponize" this case against his presidential opponent.
After Melania Trump's husband doubted the legitimacy of the accusation, saying it could only be a "false accusation, his statement changed and claimed that Tara Read seemed to be "very credible." He and his campaign group are said to see a "double standard" in how Joe Biden is being treated amid the allegations.
They seemed to notice that his supporters and the media itself treat him more favorably compared to other men accused of sexual assault, like Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was also summoned for sexual assault when he was running for the Supreme Court. They also perceived that after Joe Biden's interview, he didn't precisely address the allegations, calling him and his supporters hypocrites. Donald Trump, Jr., and Donald Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, also accused journalists of not covering the story.
