Former Senate staffer Tara Reade said on Sunday that she has faced online harassment and threats after she publicly accused presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden…
Former Senate staffer Tara Reade said on Sunday that she has faced online harassment and threats after she publicly accused presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden of sexual assault.
“I find it astounding—the hypocrisy that Democrats are talking about women being able to tell their story safely,” Reade told Fox News. “I’m a Democrat, a lifelong Democrat, but yet here I am trying to talk about my history with Joe Biden and I’m just the target of online harassment.”
Biden, a former vice president and longtime senator from Delaware, said on Friday morning that he did not sexually assault her in 1993.
“I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago. They aren’t true. This never happened,” Biden, 77, said on May 1.
But Reade told the news outlets that false social media accounts were created to impersonate her. One of the accounts had uploaded personal photos of Reade and her family.
Meanwhile, she said that the home address of her family member was posted online, while that person received several “creepy” phone calls on Friday.
