As Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden slowly gains traction, the New York Times has presented the 77-year-old’s presidential campaign with another hurdle it must overcome. (RELATED: Poll Reveals Biden Has Democrats Deeply Divided)
Per Fox News:
The New York Times rebuked the Biden campaign on Wednesday, telling Fox News that the reported talking points that have been circulated to prominent Democrats “inaccurately” describe the paper’s reporting on the candidate’s accuser Tara Reade.
“Buzzfeed reported on the existence of talking points being circulated by the Biden campaign that inaccurately suggest a New York Times investigation found that Tara Reade’s allegation ‘did not happen.’ Our investigation made no conclusion either way,” a spokesperson for the Times said in a statement. “As Buzzfeed correctly reported, our story found three former Senate aides whom Reade said she complained to contemporaneously, all of whom either did not remember the incident or said that it did not happen.”
Other sources have corroborated Reade’s claim that she mentioned the allegation. As does a video that appears to show Reade’s mother calling into Larry King’s TV show.
The spokesperson continued, “The story also included former interns who remembered Reade suddenly changing roles and no longer overseeing them, which took place during the same time period that Reade said she was abruptly reassigned. The Times also spoke to a friend who said Reade told her the details of the allegation at the time; another friend and Reade’s brother say she told them of a traumatic sexual incident involving Biden.”
On Tuesday, BuzzFeed News reported that despite strong denials the campaign has issued to various media outlets, aides for former Vice President Joe Biden are taking Reade “seriously enough behind the scenes to coordinate messaging among other Democrats to try to cast the matter as one that’s been thoroughly vetted and determined to be unfounded.”
BuzzFeed News published two excerpts from the alleged talking points provided to them by two Democratic Party operatives. (RELATED: #MeToo Movement Turns Critical of Biden)
The first states: “Biden believes that all women have the right to be heard and to have their claims thoroughly reviewed. In this case, a thorough review by the New York Times has led to the truth: this incident did not happen.”
The statement continues: “Here’s the bottom line. Vice President Joe Biden has spent over 40 years in public life: 36 years in the Senate; 7 Senate campaigns, 2 previous presidential runs, two vice presidential campaigns, and 8 years in the White House. There has never been a complaint, allegation, hint or rumor of any impropriety or inappropriate conduct like this regarding him — ever.”
Given that Biden has framed the upcoming presidential election as a moral choice, it appears his campaign wants other Democrats to insinuate that Reade’s a liar, so they don’t have to.
This strategic response they hope will minimize the likelihood that Biden may have to address the allegations personally.
Some candidates jockeying to be on Biden’s VP shortlist have followed Team Biden’s script almost verbatim.
Video: On CNN, Stacey Abrams bashes Tara Reade — “I believe that women deserve to be heard….But I also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources. The New York Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible” pic.twitter.com/mi1QwJfiME
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 29, 2020
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Democrats have one eye on Republican sexual assaults and the other eye is blind when it is looking at Democrat sexual assaults. Isn’t that odd?
Not at all. That is in accordance with the book on Democrats!
“There has never been a complaint, allegation, hint or rumor of any impropriety or inappropriate conduct…”
Really???
Except for numerous pictures and videos floating around, of Biden being all “touchy-feely” with various women and children (boys and girls).
Maybe not “complaints” or “allegations”, but the “hints” and “rumors” most definitely exist!
So true of the videos I have seen them but for this POS S Abram to lie and say that there is no evidence of sexual misconduct by Biden is sickening
I think after all the garbage that she peddled when running for Gov. of Ga. She will do & say anything to be the VP nominee. I certainly hope that never happens. We definitely don’t need a Pres. like her.
She thinks she is the legitimate Governor of Georgia. Tells you everything you want, or more precisely, need to know. There is no fix for that short of a 2×4 upside the head to unscramble things. But then again, one look at her tells you the eggs inside that skull are fully blown scrambled.
She doesn’t care one bit for other women or their problems,she just cares about being selected to be joey the molester’s team mate
To me it is is keeping with what I know of the race baiting -itch! Typical leftist Democrat want-a-be. She sold her soul long ago.
Have to wonder about that video of him rubbing the chests of those little girls during a ceremony at the WH, sniffing their hair and whispering to them, those parents didn’t care? Shocked that those videos aren’t being run at this point……and those women there too with him grabbing their boobs…..this man is sick beyond words, and getting away with it all!!! Walk away people…..no, RUN!
The media has an agenda. If it looks bad for Trump, you are free to make up stuff and put up all kinds of allegations. If it looks bad for Democrats, it is simply not reported or is refuted no matter what the facts are. It is called bias and it is why you can’t believe most mainstream media outlets.
The New York Times, Hillary’s go to newspaper. Are we seeing the inception of a run by some other quietly endorsed democrat candidate?
Dems may dump Biden and draft Romney.
Wouldn’t doubt it for a minute.
Going from one loser to a major one!!!
You can darn well bet that the NYT has an agenda!
The democrat party doesn’t give a hoot about Biden’s sh*tty character. They just want orange man down.
Even though Biden is senile, the dems know the can just “place people in charge of Biden. Democrats will have a puppet president who will have handlers as well as his wife to speak for him.
That is true president Trump must go. How it is done doesn’t matter just get president Trump out.
Why? So you can mooch more?
I’m guessing English comprehension isn’t your strong suit.
The NY Times is NOT CREDIBLE nor are the a legal, unbiased, apolitical investigating agency. Have the Attorney General or the Inspector General investigate it. Hell, the House of Representatives should have multiple day hearings on this just as they had with Judge Kavanaugh!
The people who call themselves democrats,are the lowest slime pieces of crap ever to walk this earth,they want power so bad they will do or say anything to achieve that goal,God help us from these unpatriotic, un American socialist commies,VOTE TRUMP N REPUBLICAN to save America
You said that PERFECTLY
Well…if the New York Times say he is guilty then that definitely means he is innocent.
The NYT would lose whatever credibility they have left if they were to agree with Biden’s people that nothing happened. This is more about the NYT saving their skin than Biden’s.
The N Y Times spokesperson has stated that their investigation did not come to a conclusion either way. Stacy Abrams Lied!
More horse sh*t from a naying rag of a paper!! CYA best descibes their response! This should be front page news, day after day just like Kavanaugh! They all got their talking points and they are following them to the tee!!!
Tara Reade should be front and center at the first Trump/Biden debate.
Ole Joe will be moaning like a Kim Jong Un interview.
Biden is a scumbag and always has been. The nut that stated he had never had anything like this happen before is very short on memory. For years there have been items in the news about the old prevert touching and doing illegal things to women and children. I.ve seen this on the tube, myself so who ever that nut is can find a hole. Biden id just another democret that has been taught by Nancy Polisi how to lie and keep on lying until the stupid press begins to believe you. She just called these people stupid and they didn’t even have enough sense to know it. I don’t know how in the hell anyone would call themselves a lying democrat.
Calling someone a dumorat is worse than calling them a pos sob buut suking during diarhea scumbag….just saying…websters adds it next year
I call them what they are: democommunists.
The biggest sin in the world in 2018 was sexual harassment and sexual assault, but it wasn’t really. In 2020 the left doesn’t have to hide it any longer, they believe the biggest sin is voting for Donald Trump, aka keeping them out of power. The left seems to justify everything and anything they do in their attempt to consolidate power. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican this naked attempt at grabbing power should be against the basis for our country, why have Democrats turned their backs on the principles of basic honesty and fairness.
Fine, go after Trump with both guns blazing, but police your own party the same way with those same rules and all of a sudden you realize what is right and what is wrong a little more clearly. Trump has been investigated more than any President in history and there has only been evidence of corruption by those creating the phony investigations, but what if that same unfair approach was taken by Republicans to investigate Democrats?
November is coming…..
And Trump is going to win again!!! Hope to see a lot of Real Estate for sale in California as the liberal actors lose again and move to other liberal parts of the world!!!
My oh my Democrats, the shoe sure does change when it’s on the other foot doesn’t it !!! People, this is why you should never again vote Democratic. Look how they cover for Biden, with two people backing Ms. Reade AND her mother on Larry King YEARS AGO talking about it. Democrats were out for blood with Kavanaugh, with NOBODY backing claims by his accuser, even denying that things went as she claimed, friends of her, calling her a liar. The Democratic Party is not the party you once was proud to be in, walk away, walk away.
Well dnc, the lady has a police report and a call to larry kings radio show. prof ford did not…..the my to thing is for everyone except for the democratic party. we are saints they say.
Joe, DNC, ***** of Joe, MeToo, silent cowards in the Dimwit party, HYPOCRISY, liars, misinformation thy name is socialist Democrat. Tara, bring your accusations to court, request the papers that Joe is hiding, make a clarion call for justice.
I said in February that Biden would not last thru May before he is replaced. The DNC has been desperately looking for a replacement. They mentioned Cuomo but he is a dumpster fire right now too. They mentioned Mark Cuban but he has been pretty quiet about it. Michael Obama? Hillary again? The Bernie Bro’s have turned on Biden. Now you see the NYT turning on Biden. He might not make into the first week of May. He is done.
When Biden – his son and his brothers were being exposed daily for corruption – what did Drunken Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats do? They opened another investigation into Trump. Now Biden is being exposed daily for his “sexual aggressions” and what is Nancy and the Democrats doing about that? Opening another investigation into Trump. These USELESS -money wasting investigations do nothing but stall for time. Schiff has been exposed for with holding evidence – the FBI has been exposed for with holding evidence – ALL in Hillary Clinton’s favor. The bulls**t has to end. Hold these criminals accountable and lets move forward. Leave the Democrats “Plantation” in ruins.
Look at what the democrats did to Michael Flynn. All those FBI agents that question Flynn should all have a fair trial then thrown in jail.
Perfectly said!! BRAVO
I am hoping and praying that Barr will have them thrown in jail as it has now become a criminal case…..
All true. They all lie, steal and cheat. Anything goes. They know they’re full of crap and pretty much anyone with a brain knows it too. That does not matter. Power at any cost. The country… well the USA can go to hell too. They simple do not care. Power is all they care about, even though they don’t have the brains to be able to wipe their backsides. Horrible, corrupt, empty headed pigs, the democrat part. Always has been, always will be. If I had religion, I would concur that they are Satan incarnate. No other explanation.
All true. They all lie, steal and cheat. Anything goes. They know they’re full of crap and pretty much anyone with a brain knows it too. That does not matter. Power at any cost. The country… well the USA can go to hell too. They simple do not care. Power is all they care about, even though they don’t have the brains to be able to wipe their backsides. Horrible, corrupt, empty headed pigs, the democrat party. Always has been, always will be. If I had religion, I would concur that they are Satan incarnate. No other explanation.
This ‘effin old a-hole has been ripping us tax-payers off for more than 40 years. I don’t believe a word that his campaign managers say. Nothing but a senile idiot who can’t string a complete sentence together without flubbing it. And this is the best candidate the Democraps can put forward for the President of the United States? You’ve got to be kidding me! What in the world is this country coming to? If the MSM were even halfway honest, and not in the hip pocket of the Democraps, this guy would have faded from the public eye about 2 decades ago. May God have mercy on us all if this guy defeats President Trump in November. The only way that will happen is if the Democraps do what they do best: cheat and lie and get away with it.
Ahhh…Yes…Just like with Bill Clinton…Hillary Clinton and the Democrats along with the New York Times and other liberal MSM conglomerates began a cover-up…Even after one woman came forth and explained in tears how she had been raped by Bill Clinton…All of the above simultaneously attacked these women (victims)…Together they formed a cabal slandering these women as being sluts or the telling of lies against Bill Clinton…long before he became President of the US…However Monica Lewinsky’s c#m spotted blue dress gave evidence that Bill Clinton was indeed a sexual predator…As for all the women who came forth with their stories of sexual abuse by Bill Clinton they had to live day by day with the fear and the death threats they constantly were receiving…No thanks to the New York Times and other culprits…all accusations against Bill Clinton were swept under the rug…as Hillary Clinton waved and smiled at the press…Not so much later when Pres. Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about his affair with a WH intern by the name of Monica Lewinsky…Still the question today remains unanswered…Did the President actually try to smoke those soggy cigars.
just because no other women have come forward. does not mean that joe sniff and blow has not done this before or since then.
it really sucks when a person you trusted betrays you and lies about it.
Oddly enough Kavanaugh had no complaints either before he was nominated for the seat of Justice of the Supreme Court, yet every media outlet ran with the story that he had committed rape 24/7. Why not the same for Biden? Yea, cause he is their BOI.
The Democrats lying is no surprise to anyone, the NYT refuting it must be a mistake.
Boy, Stacey Abrams really wants that VP endorsement doesn’t she? I think at one time that was called lick-spittle.
Stacey Abrams bashes Tara Reade — “I believe that women deserve to be heard….But I also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources. The New York Times did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible”….
You stupid kunt!! Did the N.Y. Times do a “deep investigation” when they vilified Judge Kavanaugh or hired racist, sexist, geriogynist Sarah Jeong, you pathetic Aunt Jemima look-alike?
This beotch is setting the fat, slob, ignorant politician agenda back, decades.
This is all about Abrams paying her slimy dues!
Leave Joe alone! We need him to run against Trump to assure his re-election. Plus ISIS, Iran, and China are all voting for Biden and Democrats so they can get back to screwing us over.
Stacey Abrams, a good Democrat, quote ”I believe women, and I believe survivors of violence always deserve to be supported and to have their voices heard.” All Rape accusers must be believed, women like Crystal Magnum, Susan Shannon, ”Jackie” of the UVA, Columbia’s ‘Mattress Girl’, Emma Sulkowicz, Wanetta Gibson, Tawana Brawley, Gregory Counts and Van Dyke Perry’s accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Julie Swetnick etc.. They would never lie, unless Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Keith Ellison, Anthony Weiner, Robert Müeller, Al Franken, etc. are accused.
This ‘thorough’ investigation by the NYT….. what exactly did they do and look at? That’s what I want to know.
One thing that always has to be kept in mind: The utopia of the democommunists and the communist UN is: World Socialist, no-borders, Government. Period. Soros, Gates, et al al support this utopia.
When did it become legal for Democrats to lie, while Republicans are being put in prison for lying? Our “Ex-Pervert-in-Chief Wild Bill Clinton” brought lying to “An Art Form!” George W. Bush was too stupid to lie. But Obama took lying to “A Highly Specialized Art Form and Distinctly Racist!”