Tara Reade, who worked for then-Senator Joe Biden in the early 1990s and claimed before his 2020 election victory that he sexually assaulted her is renewing her pledge to testify before Congress under oath about the alleged incident.
“You know, regarding my case, he would lie straight to the cameras,” Reade told Benny Johnson on his “The Benny Show” podcast this week, according to the Western Journal. “He was on, I think, the ‘Morning Joe’ show, and just lied flat-out”.
“And, you know, it’s frustrating to see, because it’s not just my case,” she continued. “Moving forward, I’m hoping for justice”.
Tara Reade then dropped some news that the president surely doesn’t want to hear.
“I did reach out and say I wanted to go under oath — that I would testify in Congress. I have received a response. We are going to meet. And there is a possibility there will be an investigation into Joe Biden. And I will go under oath and I will testify”, she told Johnson.
🚨 BREAKING: Joe Biden sexual assault accuser Tara Reade (@ReadeAlexandra) hints at possible Congressional investigation into Joe Biden accusations:
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 22, 2023
Previously, Reade claimed that the alleged assault took place in Washington, DC, in 1993.
The allegations were denied by Biden and several members of his staff, but Reade persisted and refused to back down from her initial claims, though she eventually dialed back her public efforts to hold him accountable under withering criticism regarding her credibility. But now that Republicans have taken control of the House, she has been pressing the party to open a formal probe.
Joe Biden, a sexual predator?
Tara Reade, who worked for the former US vice-president nearly 30 years ago, says he sexually assaulted her in the halls of Congress.
Joe Biden has been accused of being “touchy feely” by multiple women, but this was the first public accusation of serious sexual misconduct against him.
Joe Biden has flatly denied the allegations. “I’m saying unequivocally: it never, never happened”, he said during a TV interview.
Acquaintances of Tara Reade have said she confided in them after the alleged assault.
Tara Reade, 56, worked as a staff assistant to Joe Biden from 1992-93 when he was a senator for the US state of Delaware.
In 2020 interviews, she said that in 1993 her former boss forced her against a wall and put his hands under her shirt and skirt after she delivered him his gym bag.
“There was no exchange, really, he just had me up against the wall”, she said to podcast host Katie Halper in March 2020.
“I remember it happened all at once… his hands were on me and underneath my clothes”. He then penetrated her with his fingers, she said.
“I remember him saying, first, as he was doing it ‘Do you want to go somewhere else?’ and then him saying to me, when I pulled away… he said ‘Come on man, I heard you liked me'”, she said.
“That phrase stayed with me”.
Tara Reade filed a criminal complaint on April 9, 2020 with police, saying she was a victim of sexual assault but did not name Biden.
She said in a tweet that she filed the complaint “for safety reasons only”, as the statute of limitations for her claim had expired and she had begun to receive online threats.
Tara Reade was one of several women who came forward in 2019 to accuse Joe Biden of inappropriate touching, hugging or kissing, though none, including Tara Reade, described his actions as sexual assault at the time.
Three people have backed her account of being assaulted, although none say they were witnesses to it. Her brother, a former neighbor and a former colleague said that they heard her describe the accusation against her boss after the alleged incident.
Lynda LaCasse, who lived next door to Tara Reade after she left Washington in 1993, told Business Insider: “This happened, and I know it did because I remember talking about it”.
She recalled Tara Reade crying while describing her experience as they both shared stories of violence in their lives sometime in 1995 or 1996.
“I remember her saying, here was this person that she was working for and she idolized him”, LaCasse said.
“I remember the skirt. I remember the fingers”, she said. “I remember she was devastated”.
“I have to support her just because that’s what happened”, said LaCasse.
She said she felt compelled to support Tara Reade because “we need to stand up and tell the truth”.
