Joe Biden accused of rape

[A Black Falcon]

https://www.salon.com/2020/03/31/a-woman...t-we-know/

Salon just published a mostly pretty good article here. It does basically say "both sides are bad" effectively and refuses to pick which side the author thinks might be more right, but the analysis of the facts is good -- there are good reasons to question the charge (she has repeatedly changed her story, failed in attempts to get the mainstream media to listen, etc) but also reasons to believe it, and the author also doubts the 'she's working for Putin' story ('wouldn't she be better at covering her tracks if she actually was?' is a fair point really...).

The bit there about how she was still praising Putin as of February 2020, so her "I have changed my mind on Putin" statement is questionable unless as the author says it was VERY recent, is an interesting bit I did not know. She's much more likely to be a leftist who likes Putin (even though Putin is very right wing!) than someone actually working for him, certainly, but it doesn't say anything good for her credibility and does leave the question open.

Christine Blasey Ford had the credibility and evidence to convincingly prove her case. So far Tara Reide does not. That could change, but that's where it is now.

I will say, her initial claim from April 2019, about Biden being creepy to her, getting too close, etc? That claim is entirely believable and I think it probably happened. I remember hearing about it at the time and thinking 'yeah, that sounds like a creepy-Biden kind of thing he'd do'. It is the new, dramatically stronger claim that has issues.

The sad thing is, if this charge IS true which, yes, it could be given Biden's history of creepiness, she's done so much to damage her credibility that I don't know how many people outside of the Bernie sphere will believe it.

The timeline shows that Reade's involvement in the online world of Bernie fandom coincided with her escalation of accusations against Biden. To be clear, this does not mean she's lying. But taken along with the other discrepancies in Reade's accounts — which are also, on their own, not reasons to discredit her — it's enough to make publications take a slow and careful approach to amplifying this story.

This doesn't prove anything, as it is entirely plausible that she decided to talk about this true thing which happened to her at the same time that she got into the Bernie-sphere, but it probably is one of the things on the list of reasons why the mainstream press is mostly not reporting on this, it's a red flag for sure.