Not sure if it's been mentioned here already and I missed it.
Tara Reade, the woman accusing Biden of sexual assault, has made a police report to that effect. If she is lying, it is now a prosecutable crime, so that speaks a bit to her commitment to the accusation.
Maybe.... I guess the question is how often are such allegations actually prosecuted if/when it is found that the "victim" actually lied? (Especially in cases were its largely a he-said/she-said situation.)
Probably an accusation that should have been more vigorously vetted during the primary, but wasn't.
Not really sure what could have been done to vet the situation.... The police didn't have anything to investigate, and neither the media nor the democratic party had the ability to compel witnesses to talk, or to issue subpoenas.
The hypocrisy of the democratic party non-response to these allegations, especially compared to the very different response to the Kavanaugh accusations, is quite stunning.
Yes, I am sure we will hear lots of accusations of 'Hypocrisy' when comparing the Reade/Kavanaugh situations.
But, for anyone who isn't reflexively anti-Biden, there are substantial differences between the 2 cases, and reasons to be cautions about accepting Reade's allegations... conflicting accounts, her recent support of Sanders, her "love letters" to Putin, etc. None of it
proves she's lying, but it does damage her credibility. Even her brother's story has changed (in one interview he said that he was told Biden "acted inappropriately"... yet several days later he claims there was more than he originally said.)
In an ideal world, the police would interview Reade, the brother and the friends who were supposedly told about the assault at the time, to check the consistencies.
Yes, assaults against women are under-reported. Yes, allegations should be listened to. But false accusations of sexual assault do happen as well. Its unfortunate, but its the world we live in.
