#TaraReade is a liar. Whatever else may have happened between Reade and Biden, she was not digitally penetrated, and there was no assault.
There is, after all, only one shaky “witness” to *that* allegation, and the evidence against the allegation is overwhelming. 1/17
Megyn Kelly has scored an on-camera interview with Tara Reade, which will be aired shortly. Kelly says she asked tough questions, but according to reports, Reade held up under the questioning.
Color me skeptical that Kelly asked the right questions. 2/17
One question that cuts right to the chase is this:
You say that in 1993 Joe Biden penetrated your vagina with his fingers in a semi-private corridor or alcove of the Senate building. 3/17
Yet in your explosive interview with Katie Halper this year (March 25), you said that you did not regard this incident at the time — that is, in 1993, when you were 29 years old — as a sexual assault. 4/17
Question 1: How is it possible for a 29 year old woman to regard an unwanted digital penetration of the vagina as NOT being a sexual assault? 5/17
Kindly explain this to us. We are confused, because IF it happened as you have alleged, it certainly WAS a sexual violation and consequently a sexual assault in the public’s understanding and under the law. 6/17
Question 2: You have said that you told friends and family at the time (1993) that you were upset about an incident that had occurred between you and Joe Biden in a semi-private hallway or alcove in the Senate office building. 7/17
A number of them confirmed that you were upset about SOMETHING that happened to you in those circumstances — but what? 8/17
Doubts arise in our minds about the sexual assault allegation because, out of these half a dozen or so individuals, only ONE (Lynda LaCasse) recalls being told about the digital penetration. 9/17
There is *no* evidence that you mentioned the penetration at the time to your mother, brother, or — most incriminatingly — to Lorraine Sanchez, your closest friend at the time, who worked in another Senate office. 10/17
Indeed, Sanchez doesn’t have a clear idea *at all* of what happened in the alleged “Incident in the hallway.”
She even told Katie Halper that she wishes she had been there so she would have a clearer view of what happened. 11/17
Sanchez even volunteered to Halper that (she believes) your mother had the same wish before she died.
Apparently you didn’t mention the alleged digital penetration to these individuals. Why not? 12/17
Question 3: Could it be that you alleged to Lynda LaCasse in 1995 or 1996 that Biden penetrated you with his fingers because the context of *that* conversation (unlike those with your brother, mother, or Lynda Sanchez) was about SEXUAL VIOLENCE? 13/17
LaCasse says that she was having problems with custody issues at the time, and LaCasse would have been familiar with issues around sexual violence because she worked in an ER in San Luis Obispo. 14/17
Could you have hyped the very poorly and inadequately described allegation of sexual misconduct that you had made previously to three other people to LaCasse in order to sympathize with her, show solidarity, and console her over *LaCasse’s* issues with sexual violence? 15/17
And could it be that you are now obligated to stick to the allegation of digital penetration in order to bring *any* charge publicly against Biden now, because LaCasse would have remembered the charge of digital penetration, making it an inextricable part of your narrative? 16/17
In short: Why would you have described an alleged event that clearly would be an incident of sexual assault / sexual violence to LaCasse, but not to your mother, boyfriend, or Lorraine Sanchez?
Inquiring minds want to know. 17/17
