15th May 2020, 8:33 PM
Well, this charge is pretty solidly disproven now.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/wh...llegations
PBS tried to get in contact with 200 former staffers who worked for Biden. 74 of them returned their calls, and the result was unanimous: ALL of them say they know of no harassment or assault charges in that office. In fact there are comments about how that Biden's office was a haven away from that kind of behavior in the senate at the time, that was common in some senate ffices. Every one of them agreed that it was a good working environment.
One of the people contacted, Ben Savage (not that one), was her supervisor; he was the tech guy. She doesn't remember him apparently but he remembers her, and says she was bad at her job, which is why her responsibilities got cut -- he remembers her being worse at it than anyone else he worked with there, or such. He says he talked to his manager about cutting her responsibilities because of her poor performance, and they did that. That manager doesn't remember her, but does remember Savage being particularly good, one of the best people they had apparently.
There is much more in the article, but one other part that really stood out to me was the part which put her 2019 harassment claim in serious doubt -- the article makes it clear that there was a hard line between campaign staff and office staff, and no office staff would ever have been at a campaign event, much less asked to serve drinks there. So her "he asked me to serve drinks at a campaign function" claim is almost certainly false. Additionally, Biden didn't do many events or fundraisers either, he was going home every night on the train, as people famously know.
Additionally, nobody ever heard of anyone bringing him a gym bag. Never. And even more importantly, that area of that Senate office building is wide open, with lots of people and offices around. There are no side areas for them to go to as she claimed.
In summary the assault clearly did not happen. The sexual harassment from Biden clearly did not happen either. Did he get uncomfortably close sometime and smell her hair or osmething, as he is known to do? SUre, maybe, but that is an entirely different conversation. Did she have a bad experience there, and complain about it years later to her now-ex and her mother? Yes. But what kind of bad experience it was is quite unclear.
Meanwhile, another news report says that four days before she quit or was fired from Biden's office, Reade was charged with check fraud. And before that, her pay was docked for misconduct. After that came the bounced check (check fraud), then four days after that, the record says that she was fired -- not that she resigned as she claims, that she was fired. I wonder if that was connected to her departure or not.... https://twitter.com/STEMthebleeding/stat...7587138562
A third report, from Politico, looks at her history over the past decade and finds a great many people with a lot of bad things to say about her, her history of lying and attempted scams, and more. But while it provides more evidence against her character, it doesn't disprove the charge. PBS, however, does, pretty conclusively I think. I know some people will still believe Biden did it even after this, because they want to hate him, but there's very little to no credible ground to base that belief on now, I think.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/wh...llegations
PBS tried to get in contact with 200 former staffers who worked for Biden. 74 of them returned their calls, and the result was unanimous: ALL of them say they know of no harassment or assault charges in that office. In fact there are comments about how that Biden's office was a haven away from that kind of behavior in the senate at the time, that was common in some senate ffices. Every one of them agreed that it was a good working environment.
One of the people contacted, Ben Savage (not that one), was her supervisor; he was the tech guy. She doesn't remember him apparently but he remembers her, and says she was bad at her job, which is why her responsibilities got cut -- he remembers her being worse at it than anyone else he worked with there, or such. He says he talked to his manager about cutting her responsibilities because of her poor performance, and they did that. That manager doesn't remember her, but does remember Savage being particularly good, one of the best people they had apparently.
There is much more in the article, but one other part that really stood out to me was the part which put her 2019 harassment claim in serious doubt -- the article makes it clear that there was a hard line between campaign staff and office staff, and no office staff would ever have been at a campaign event, much less asked to serve drinks there. So her "he asked me to serve drinks at a campaign function" claim is almost certainly false. Additionally, Biden didn't do many events or fundraisers either, he was going home every night on the train, as people famously know.
Additionally, nobody ever heard of anyone bringing him a gym bag. Never. And even more importantly, that area of that Senate office building is wide open, with lots of people and offices around. There are no side areas for them to go to as she claimed.
In summary the assault clearly did not happen. The sexual harassment from Biden clearly did not happen either. Did he get uncomfortably close sometime and smell her hair or osmething, as he is known to do? SUre, maybe, but that is an entirely different conversation. Did she have a bad experience there, and complain about it years later to her now-ex and her mother? Yes. But what kind of bad experience it was is quite unclear.
Meanwhile, another news report says that four days before she quit or was fired from Biden's office, Reade was charged with check fraud. And before that, her pay was docked for misconduct. After that came the bounced check (check fraud), then four days after that, the record says that she was fired -- not that she resigned as she claims, that she was fired. I wonder if that was connected to her departure or not.... https://twitter.com/STEMthebleeding/stat...7587138562
A third report, from Politico, looks at her history over the past decade and finds a great many people with a lot of bad things to say about her, her history of lying and attempted scams, and more. But while it provides more evidence against her character, it doesn't disprove the charge. PBS, however, does, pretty conclusively I think. I know some people will still believe Biden did it even after this, because they want to hate him, but there's very little to no credible ground to base that belief on now, I think.
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