This Biden Sexual Assault Story Keeps Coming Back

What’s their deal (WaPo)? Are they trying to help Trump win?

It will continue to come back like the walking undead. I wonder if Biden will ever address it.

R1

"They" are trying not to be hypocrites after the whole #MeToo movement.

I posted this on another thread but will also paste it here:

The Biden "sex scandal" is so predictable and so hilariously weak. At the end of the day, EVEN if Biden did something like this (he DIDN'T) - what ground do these GOP thugs have to stand on? I mean the rap sheet on Trump alone is a mile long. Don't get me started on the rest of this gang of thugs. They gave up their right to kick and scream and even attempt to throw down the "morality" card a long ass time ago. Who cares?

What about the over 20 women that cane forward about Trump? I don’t see how this is effective, when Trump cheated on the First Lady and raw dogged a porn star.

The story should have died the moment it was revealed that the woman wrote love letters to Putin.

R4 The WaPo is “GOP thugs”?

She just needed to read some of Bernie's rape poetry and she'd have been in a "yes" mood, instead of a 'Ima file charges' mood.

This "story" was not a scandal dreamed up by the WaPo, R7. Obviously...

[quote]What about the over 20 women that cane forward about Trump?

The rules are different for Democrats and Republicans. You should know this by now.

We actually *care.*

[quote]It will continue to come back like the walking undead. I wonder if Biden will ever address it.

Because we are Democrats someone will eventually force him to from our own party before the Republicans go to town on him with it.

It doesn't matter who won the nomination. Any scandal will be reviewed, ripped, teased, and analyzed to death as much as possible by the media without regard for who we want in the White House or how horrible the person currently there might be.

The media are desperate to flesh out a "Biden is no better than Trump" angle. They want a horse race and at this point that means dragging Biden down so Trump can catch up.

They'll regret it if Cheeto is reelected and sets out to rein in the press.

Democrats need to be as ruthless as the cult was for Kavanaugh. Screw being afraid of being called hypocrites: project Biden at all costs and prove her a liar by working in the background.

You know who's going to refuse to be a team player: Warren, the Squad, etc.

*protect Biden

This woman should kill herself. She’s pathetic.

That senile old perv sitting in his basement is NOT going to be elected anyway. It would be better to use this as a #metoo moment to shame him and get a better Dem candidate nominated. That way, the Dems get an electable candidate AND avoid looking like hypocrites.

But they won't, because they're stupid.

R15 Biden is a fucking pathetic candidate, that’s for sure.

R14 Throughout history, women have killed themselves after being sexually violated. Thanks for that 14th-century perspective!

Which Russian/Bernie Bro started this thread? You guys are so desperate to tank Biden, but it won't work.

Biden was Vice President for 8 fucking years -- and the subject of presidential campaign rumors for 4 years following that. You really think that if this story had legs it wouldn't have been vetted to death by now? The media hasn't given Reade much airtime for a reason.

Good luck trying to make this a thing. It's the best shot Trump has at trying to derail Biden (after that whole Ukraine thing didn't work out) and it's weak as shit. Looking forward to Orange Hitler losing in a landslide.

R18 So now the WaPo is a Bernie bro or a Russian troll? That’s why the thread was started, to speculate why they would pick it up and run with it if there was ‘nothing to it.’

[quote] [R18] So now the WaPo is a Bernie bro or a Russian troll? That’s why the thread was started, to speculate why they would pick it up and run with it if there was ‘nothing to it.’

Yeah like their important stories regarding Clinton’s email.

[quote] [R14] Throughout history, women have killed themselves after being sexually violated. Thanks for that 14th-century perspective!

So your point is that there’s still hope that Reades lying Putin loving ass will do the same? Fingers crossed!

I’m endlessly fascinated by the somewhat identically brief posting histories of Tara Reade’s supporters.

she was biden her time

aw who gives a shit. we gotta git drump outta da white house !!!!!

I believe her. I also don’t give a shit. If she was violated, there is nothing the judicial system can do. America affords her the opportunity to tell her story. She has done that. If he had a long history of behaving this way, perhaps others will come forward. If not, she has said her peace.

[quote] America affords her the opportunity to tell her story.

A story that is full of contradictions and continues to change and even includes letters to Putin . . .

so she was fine with Biden as VP but had an issue with him as President? I'm supposed to believe that Obama's people didn't properly vet Biden in 2008? I'm still stuck on the fact that when she was under oath she pulled her statement back with the quickness.

This story is a cheap as a Trump tie. I don't buy it.

WW R27!!

W&W for R27

8 women.

People who fabricate sexual assault stories should be sexually assaulted as punishment. On live national television.

[quote]Democrats need to be as ruthless as the cult was for Kavanaugh. Screw being afraid of being called hypocrites: project Biden at all costs and prove her a liar by working in the background.

THIS.

It keeps resurfacing because no one in the democratic party is coming out and addressing this at all, which makes no sense at all given that the woman's story has more holes than a slice of swiss cheese.

Biden should have had a virtual press conference on TV yesterday and denied the accusations. Instead the story is snowballing. Where is everybody?

Democrats need to stop letting Republicans control the narrative. They're desperate at this point and willing to do anything to win. Ignoring this isn't going to work.

What is “sexually harassed”? That’s not rape. Did he touch her elbow? What?

Trump is a pussy grabbing Nazi who’s policies killed 57,000 Americans in a month.

R27 💯

R33, allegedly, it was digital penetration, NOT rape.

Did this happen at work? Where? She’s saying he “grabbed her pussy”? Was he orange and wearing a long red tie at the time?

“The stories” (Lol) keep coming back because trolls like OP keep bringing them back. What about Summer Zervos, OP? Are you concerned about her, or the the other twenty five women Twitler sexually assaulted? Somehow I doubt it.

I don’t care.

Here’s why I don’t believe her: Joe Biden is a very subtle creepy toucher. He does the kind of shit that makes women uncomfortable but it’s not “rape-rape”. He’s the kind of guy who will grab a woman’s upper arm and steer her around while walking alongside. And maybe his knuckles will graze her breast. Nothing overt, nothing scandalous, but you still feel grossed out. “Oh, that’s just the way he is. He thought your hair smelled good! It’s a compliment!”

He gets his kicks from that halting reluctance of women who don’t want to be seen as “uptight”.

^^ these guys don’t actually assault anyone. It’s so subtle they do it in front of everyone.

He wouldn’t push a woman agaibst a wall and stick his hand down her panties. That’s too forceful. He’d brush the back of his hand against her ass in the middle of a crowded conference room.

R40, I think it’s a combination of that and coming from a touchy feely family. Grabbing a woman’s pussy isn’t really the style of guys like this.

There are some guys and women raised very touchy and they don’t think about it like some others do. Think of the women who are always hugging everybody at work, or the guys always walking around with their arm over somebody’s shoulder. These people are not pussy grabbers. They don’t think of themselves as being overly aggressive. If you tell them they are, they’re shocked.

If people don’t like to be touched they need to sack up and say so. It would be great if everybody knew what you liked without saying anything, but they don’t.

Cancel WaPo.

If Joe Biden is a rapist, people need to know.

At the end of the day, Democrats hitched their wagons to the believe all women/women never lie victim party that we’ve been having for Ovarian-Americans over the last four years. So now, they have to shamelessly defend Joe against “credible” evidence he assaulted someone.

I still ain't gonna vote for Bernie.

Ever.

The credible evidence is a Bernie supporter, that loves Putin, says Bernie’s opponent was a rapist years ago. And her friend says she said so.

That’s the standard of evidence? Then I say Trump killed me and cut my head off and it’s in his refrigerator. And my kitty backs me up!

The Atlantic's Peter Beinart calls for Biden to release his senatorial records. Biden's accuser believes that her sexual assault/harassment complaint could be included in those records.

Beinart says-

[quote] Tara Reade’s allegation against Joe Biden is not going away. Reade, who worked on his Senate staff in the 1990s, accuses Biden of sexually assaulting her in a hallway....

[quote] Business Insider interviewed a former neighbor who said, on the record, that Reade told her in the mid-’90s that Biden had pushed her against a wall and put his fingers under her skirt. Business Insider also talked to a woman who worked with Reade after she left Biden’s office, who remembered Reade saying she had been sexually harassed by her boss in Washington, D.C.

[quote] None of this means Biden is guilty. But it does mean the presumptive Democratic nominee should unseal his Senate papers so that the public has a better chance of finding out.

Yeah, right after Trump releases his taxes.

CNN is now covering this.

I want to know why Biden hasn’t addressed this directly. It looks bad. Twenty years ago he could have ignored it maybe, but you can’t do that now. I hope he doesn’t think he can just ignore her because that’s just adding fuel to the fire.

There’s no way to prove a negative, unless there’s no record she was ever there, but I think she was probably there. And what records are still around after that long? Some of the people that worked there are probably dead by now.

“She’s not my type.”

Biden doesn’t even know where he is.

[quote]It will continue to come back like the walking undead. I wonder if Biden will ever address it.

He should never address it. If the Trump Administration is allowed to ignore Congressional subpoenas, there is no reason for Biden to even acknowledge this.

r7 they publish Hugh Hewitt. They ain't left wing.

Americans have now seen enough examples of women lying about alleged assaults that nobody cares about some allegations from decades ago. The only people who will be outraged about this are Rose McGowan and a few other crackpots on the far left.

R53, that worked out so well for Hillary. The email story got bigger and bigger. Biden is already DOA. Trump will parade Biden’s victims on tv again and call Dems out on their hypocrisy.

R55 is delusional.

I love all the Concern Trolls in this thread.

No one cares. It's a weak case, and pointless, and it's clearly designed to drag Biden down to Trump's level as far as being a virtuous guy. They're trying to Swiftboat him. Biden is a virtuous family man, so of course they will try to attack that.

Of course the Bernie Bros and YMF-types will push this because they're still bitter about not getting their way.

There is a separate thread on DL where this was debunked last week.

OP, what's the weather like right now in Moscow?

[quote]Trump will parade Biden’s victims on tv again and call Dems out on their hypocrisy.

And Biden can parade Trump’s 60,000 dead Americans and 26 million new unemployment claims on tv again and again.

No one cares

Biden needs to ignore it completely and just keep letting Trump destroy himself everytime he opens his mouth on TV about Coronavirus. Biden’s polling is going up every day as Trump’s continues to drop.

[quote] Throughout history, women have killed themselves after being sexually violated. T

She's not proven she's been sexually violated. She's claimed she has been. I could similarly claim I am the Emperor of Japan; but that doesn't mean I am.

I am Oprah Winfrey

R65, lose some weight fat pig. 🐷

r66 = Dr. Phil

R45 is right, unfortunately.

The media have found their angle to destroy Biden. Because they need a story. Because they’re destructive neurotics who fear being called hypocrites and biased — like either really matters.

I hope they’ll enjoy a reelected Trump shutting them down.

No, R38, the stories keep coming back because the Washington Post prints them.

[quote]the Bernie Bros and YMF-types will push this because they're still bitter

Again: the WASHINGTON POST published the latest Biden story. They’re the ones who are “pushing it.” Not “Bernie Bros” or “YMF-types.” The. Washington. Post.

Go cry to them if you don’t like it.

Pete! Shave your beard. Be ready in case we might need you!

Is that YMF @71?

R68, I think the idea is that people are suggesting is that it's important to believe all survivors. but that she's not a survivor.

Mainstream Democrats had better close ranks. None of the Al Franken takedown bullshit.

The media are out for blood, because their primary candidates didn’t win. Left Twitter too. Soon the Pod Save America guys, who love to be woke (self-sabotaging) and worship the Squad. They’ll really get going when Biden chooses a mainstream Democrat as his VP. Their goddess, Abrams, will try to ride the wave.

This is the next “but her emails”. True Democrats need to be 100% behind Biden. Investigate each accuser and find the evidence that shows that they’re crazy, selfish liars. The media won’t be investigating: they’ll be trumpeting the accusations and expressing “concern” about Biden.

Biden won’t pick Warren. She’ll then try to lead the “concern” movement, with the Squad and the fawning, desperate media, possibly with the thought that she can help Bernie seize the nomination in exchange for the VP position.

We’re three scorpions in a jar: the media and the far left, Biden and mainstream Democrats, Trump and his cult backed by Russia. One will win when the others are vanquished. There’s no room for compromise anymore.

R75 is right and it sickens me.

[quote]Biden won’t pick Warren. She’ll then try to lead the “concern” movement, with the Squad and the fawning, desperate media, possibly with the thought that she can help Bernie seize the nomination in exchange for the VP position.

I don’t think Warren will do that. She seems to have SOME common sense and has pivoted away from some of her more progressive positions.

The Squad, yes. And Bernie Sanders and his supporters, yes they’ll be outraged about Biden. And probably a few of the more ridiculous Dem Senators, like Gillibrand.

I think Justin Smash just got in the race. This hurts Biden more than Trump.

Omg, is that really Pete's new beard?! It's like a scraggly attempt by a junior high-schooler

R77, we’ll see about Warren. I’m pretty sure she’ll “turn” on Biden insofar as she’ll express “reservations” and “concern”. A month after the VP pick announcement. Let’s see.

R75 is completely correct. As Dems, we often tend to "eat our young" and I hate this fact. The reprehensible GOP looks cringe-worthy as they fawn all over their Führer and blatantly stand behind every revolting new thing that he pulls (hard to even keep track 3.5 years in..). I hate them...but I do have to respect the outcome. There must be some sort of middle ground where we can both maintain ethics and uphold a sense of decency while still getting behind our party and supporting the common party goal of dethroning an evil malignancy of a party. A party that has not won a fair presidential election since perhaps the 1980's, yet has still managed to infest and destroy this country despite being backed by only a minority of voters. I am ready for war. We need to keep every Dem congressman and Dem politician in check and unite as a unified party (for once) to effectively battle and conquer our enemies. I have no tolerance for dissension within the ranks - not this time around.

[quote] I think Justin Smash just got in the race. This hurts Biden more than Trump.

Justin Amash is not a Democrat. He is a Republican turned Independent. He formed an exploratory committee. That committee will quickly find out that most people don't know who he is nor do they care. And unless he's on Putin's payroll or the payroll of a Republican billionaire; he doesn't have the money.

Don’t underestimate the threat of an Amash run at the margins. Every bit matters. There are plenty of morons who’ll happily vote Libertarian.

Amash won't run.

WaPo has published other BernieBro stories, R71. All the mainstream media does that now, because they're looking for clicks, not looking to inform the public.

The key thing to remember about Tara Reade's accusation is that the plainly said she didn't report this earlier because she forgot it happened. Swear to god, she said that she forgot that Biden raped her until someone else brought it up in January. Then LaCasse also said in an interview that he forgot it happened, too, until Reade mentioned it to her, but then suddenly he could recall an entire conversation she overheard in 1993 word for word.

McHugh conveniently never mentioned that LaCasse had been contacted by Reade before she went to the media. It looks too much like coaching.

Then Nathan Robinson of Current Affairs admitted to coaching Tara Reade's brother.

R75, moderate Democrats won’t win. (I am one and feel utterly bereft). So it’s really just two scorpions in a jar.

So what?

R42, does he sniff men’s hair and put his hands on them, too? Does he lead men around by the upper arm? I hadn’t seen that.

It’s a way of asserting dominance and establishing his entitlement.

Is he a dangerous, violent person? Of course not. Will I vote for him? Yes.

But it doesn’t mean he’s not a creep. I don’t know, maybe these little things don’t happen to gay men and you guys can’t really relate.

R88 he touches men too. Doesn't sniff hair, but does get touchy.

[quote]Doesn't sniff hair

The fool.

Trump diversions.

Are Hunter and Tara all they got?

No wonder they didn't want Biden to be the nominee.

R91 is going to be in tears come January 2021 when Trump is sworn in again.

R92 is a Trumpster and turns out to also be the one who couldn't understand a simple Charles Addams cartoon. Now it all makes sense.

Tara Reade’s accusation matches a paragraph from her father’s (Bob Moulton) novel, “Loss.” It was in the DailyKos this morning. She is a freakish Bernie Bot. More amateurish swift boaters along the lines of “Benghazi!” or the whataboutist “but her e-mails!” Jaysus these fascists are desperate.

R94, could you please post a link? I can't seem to find it on Daily Kos, and a Google search isn't helping. Thanks.

Found it.

Please provide a better source than DailyKos. Or did you do that on purpose to discredit the story?

R97/troll, the Daily Kos article references a Twitter post with a screenshot of the page of the novel with the relevant passage. If you'd actually looks at the article, you'd have seen it.

Lots of blocked posts - Bernie folks are rabid!

[quote]a Twitter post with a screenshot of the page of the novel with the relevant passage

The chalice in the palace has the brew that is true.

R63, everyone needs to be ignoring this and blocking every concern troll trying to make it a thing.

I was an attractive young woman in 1993 (still a woman - just older!) I worked in sales for a hotel chain - I have no doubt that Biden was probably a hugger, a hokey joker, probably complimented pretty hair and nice legs - BUt - I can't see him turning ugly and digitally penetrating a woman in a hallway! Plus - in 1993 we All wore Pantyhose -a man would have to pull your entire skirt up to your waist - grab your skin right panty hose at the waist and tank them all the way down in order to get his hands down there - it would have been a struggle - I would think she would have mentioned the struggle = imo