Joe Biden says allegations he assaulted former Senate staffer Tara Reade 'aren’t true,' calls for Senate to release complaint records
Joe Biden on Friday morning denied an allegation of sexual assault from a former staffer, saying in a statement,"This never happened."
Biden was scheduled to appear on MSNBC's Morning Joe Friday to address the allegation. In his lengthy statement, he said"responsible news organizations should examine and evaluate the full and growing record of inconsistencies in her story, which has changed repeatedly in both big and small ways.that while she was bringing a gym bag to Biden in a Capitol Hill office building, Biden pushed her against a wall, groped her and digitally penetrated her without consent.
Multiple people have said they remember her telling them about an assault or harassment and retaliation well before she went public with her story, including a former neighbor who said this week that Reade told her about the assault in 1995 or 1996.What we know: Reade's claim comes amid the first presidential election since the surge of #MeToo, which has championed the importance of listening to women and holding powerful abusers to account. Biden is among the many Democratic figures who has been a supporter of the movement.
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