The ex-Senate staffer, who alleged that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, acknowledged that she did not explicitly accuse Biden of sexual assault or harassment in previous filings and
Tara Reade, the ex-Senate staffer who alleged that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, acknowledged Friday in an Associated Press interview that she did not explicitly accuse the former vice president of sexual assault or harassment in previous filings and interviews prior to this year–only that she was made to feel “uncomfortable.”
Reade responded this week to additional transcripts and notes from interviews she did with the AP in 2019, in which she admitted to “chickening out” of filing an official complaint which actually alleged explicit sexual misconduct of any kind. The AP noted that Reade did not raise allegations of sexual assault against Biden until this year, when he became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
Biden on Friday outright denied her claims again and called on the Senate and National Archives to produce any such complaint should it exist. Reade conceded to the AP Friday that even if any record of her official complaint does surface, it “would not corroborate her assault allegations because she chose not to detail them at the time.
