Never mind
Somebody cue Emily Litella, please. I know the New York Times wanted the DNC to investigate the matter, but perhaps they won’t need to. The latest “blockbuster” in the Tara Reade/Joe Biden saga has turned out to be a nothingburger.
By the Time Joe Biden finally got around to talking about Reade’s allegations on Morning Joe this week, yet another huge development had come out of the story. Reade doubled down on her allegations, but added in one little detail we hadn’t heard before. Shortly after the alleged assault, she filed a complaint with the United States Senate against then-Senator Biden. This was a major development in the story because assuming the document could be located, it would provide contemporaneous documentation showing that Reade had lodged her complaint through the appropriate channels.
It was big enough news that Mika Brzezinski pressed Biden on it, asking if he would open up all of his Senate records for inspection to see if the damning document was filed away there. For his part, Biden said that all of his records should be available for search, but he continued to insist that no such document existed. But now, after all of this fuss and bother, Reade has come out and said that her complaint makes no mention of sexual assault. Insert #HeadDesk hashtag here. (NY Post)
Tara Reade’s 1993 complaint against Joe Biden, which she says was filed to the Congressional Personnel Office, does not include any explicit accusations of sexual assault.
