And from the land of misleading headlines:
Yahoo News: Evidence emerges for sex-assault allegation against Biden
Hint: there is no new 'emerged' information in the article.
It is, however, a decent summary of the story to date.
Creepy Joe touched her shoulders and kissed her hair and made her (and other women over the years) uncomfortable. We know that. And it is/was bizarre behavior. And I have no clue why people on his various campaigns over the years didn't tell him to knock it off years ago no matter how much Joe felt he was only being friendly.
For those in this thread claiming Biden has not personally responded, here is what Biden said earlier:
In March 2019, former Nevada lawmaker Lucy Flores alleged that Biden had kissed and touched her inappropriately in 2014. In response to Flores’s allegation, Biden said it “was never my intention” to make Flores or another woman feel uncomfortable.
So kissed on head or?
“In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort. And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately,” he said in the statement. “If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.”
He added that he did not recall the alleged interaction with Flores, but said, “We have arrived at an important time when women feel they can and should relate their experiences.”
Well into the 'me too' era, which makes the following not surprising:
Shortly after those allegations were made, a half dozen other women spoke up to say that Biden had made remarks or touched them in ways that made them uncomfortable, although none alleged assault. One was Reade, who told a local California newspaper that Biden had inappropriately touched her and made her uncomfortable. She did not raise an accusation of assault. In 2019 interviews with the Washington Post, Reade said that Biden “touched her neck and shoulders but did not mention the alleged assault or suggest there was more to the story.”
This appears undeniable. And claims of kissing, yeah, the idiot kissed women's heads and hair all the time. If that was a sexual come-on, why was it so commonly in public?
The guy invaded personal space, no question.
As for Reade telling others and her mother's contemporaneous call to Larry King:
Last week, the Intercept published an August 11, 1993, call to Larry King’s CNN show. Although not identified at the time, the caller was Reade’s mother, Jeanette Altimus, who Reade says she told about the alleged assault at the time it occurred.
“I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington?” said the caller, who was identified as a woman living in San Luis Obispo, Calif., where Altimus resided at the time. “My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.”
King replied, “In other words, she had a story to tell but, out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn’t tell it?”
“That’s true,” said the caller.
Other than the word, "assault" in the call, that doesn't say more than 'kissing the head/hair and rubbing shoulders' which he probably did.
One friend recalls
“I don’t remember all the details,” added LaCasse, who said she was a Democrat who still supported Biden. “I remember the skirt. I remember the fingers. I remember she was devastated.”
But this woman only repeated this story recently when asked by reporters and after Reade's public account.
Then we have:
Another woman, Lorraine Sanchez, told McHugh that she recalled Reade complaining to her in the mid-’90s that her former boss in Washington, D.C., had sexually harassed her and that she had been fired for raising concerns. Sanchez and Reade worked together in the office of a California state senator.
That's a credible account but could still mostly be Reade's interpretation of events that did not include the finger in the vagina claim.
I'm sorry, this is a single account, about a man who invaded women's spaces and there is no doubt he made some of them uncomfortable.
No one else is saying he tried to kiss (on the mouth) or touch them on their female bits. Decades of public life, decades of campaign and political life and Creepy Joe's only pattern was rubbing shoulders and kissing hair/heads.
If he was slamming women up against the walls and trying to kiss them, there would be more reports, lots of them. There aren't.
False memories that head kissing and shoulder rubbing was sexual, credible. Exaggerating a bit to some people you tell the story too because they might not think head kissing and shoulder rubbing was credibly sexual? Very likely. That's what people do because they want to be believed.
Bernie Bros would love Biden to resign so they can still get their Sanders' revolution. Republicans would love to trash Biden because that's all they have with such an atrocious candidate as Trump. And Democrats are simply not going to buy it because we need to get Trump out of there.
I personally don't believe her. I believe he rubbed her shoulders and kissed her hair and maybe she was creeped out about and that belief grew over time into this claim she now has.
I think the evidence he simply didn't have such a pattern of behavior outweighs her likely questionable memory.
That's my belief and I'm sticking to it.
No doubt there is now a concerted effort by the Trump campaign to dig more women up here. The GOP funded Paula Jones' legal case to the tune of ~$600,000 IIRC (It was 6 figure) and she came out with $800,000 in the end. Bill was an easy target. Jones' story was likely mostly true, but due to the large GOP investment to bring out her outrage, I doubt she was outraged by it at the time.
Regardless, it's says a lot about the alt-right that they didn't give a rip about their candidates' behavior but they expect a Democratic candidate to withdraw because of questionable behavior almost 2 decades earlier. No, Joe is not going to be bullied into resigning and Trump can bring all of Clinton's accusers and Reade to sit in the front row at the debates.
Sorry Trumpers, you can only use that tactic once. Your boy has proved himself to be an incompetent, dangerous POTUS. We won't be fooled again. Hopefully.
