Joe Biden accuser Tara Reade calls on ex-VP to drop out of race over sex assault allegations in Megyn Kelly interview
JOE Biden accuser Tara Reade said that the former vice president should drop out of the race for president. The former aide said this in an interview with Megyn Kelly which marked her first sit down since Biden denied her allegations of sexual assault. Reade claims that in 1993, Biden pushed her against a wall […]
JOE Biden accuser Tara Reade said that the former vice president should drop out of the race for president.
The former aide said this in an interview with Megyn Kelly which marked her first sit down since Biden denied her allegations of sexual assault.
Reade claims that in 1993, Biden pushed her against a wall while kissing her neck, then shoved his hand under her skirt and penetrated her with his fingers.
“Do you want to go somewhere else?” Biden then allegedly asked the young aide.
She filed a criminal complaint against Biden last month despite the fact that the statute of limitations had run out in the case, saying ti was for her own protection.
Biden responded to these allegations in a pair of softball interviews last week with Morning Joe and later The View.
“I recognize my responsibility to be a voice, an advocate, and a leader for the change in culture that has begun but is nowhere near finished,” said Biden on Morning Joe.
“So I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago. They aren’t true.”
Kelly asked Reade how this made her feel during their interview.
“It’s been stunning, actually, how some of his surrogates with the blue checks [nxt to their Twitter accounts] have been saying really horrible things about me and to me on social media,” noted Reade.
She went in to stats that there is “a measure of hypocrisy” with hwoi the campaign chose to respond to the allegations.
Reade said she is also now fearing for her own safety.
“All my social media’s been hacked, all my personal information’s been dragged through, every person that maybe has a gripe against me … has been able to have a platform rather than me, talking about things that have nothing to do with 1993,” she told Kelly.
That is when the host, who has always been at her best when interviewing victims of sexual misconduct, asked what Reade wanted say to Biden.
“You and I were there, Joe Biden,” replied Reade.
“Please step forward and be held accountable. You should not be running on character for the president of the United States.”
Kelly then asked Reade if she believed Biden – who is now the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee in the 2020 race – would step down.
“I wish he would. But he won’t but I wish he would. That’s how I feel emotionally,” said Reade.
Asked if she might settle for an apology instead, Reade said that “it’s a little late.”
The Sun has learned that the interview will continue to roll out in segments, and that Kelly did push Reade on some of her claims.
Reade also claims to have filed a complaint with the personnel office on Capitol Hill at the time.
In that complaint however she only claimed to have been sexually harassed by the then-senator, and made no mention of any assault.
Reade also said that she spoke to three supervisors at the time, though none of those individuals have been able to recall having a conversation of that nature at the time.
A friend of Reade’s did however say that she knew about the situation and was the one who encouraged Reade to file a report.