Tara Reade, who has alleged Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, calls on him to drop out of the presidential election. Biden has denied the allegations.
in 1993 offered her first public comments since the former vice president firmly denied her allegations last week, saying she wants Biden to drop out of the 2020 race for president.
Reade, 56, served as an entry-level Senate staff assistant in Biden’s office for a short period in 1993. She alleged in interviews with ABC News and other media outlets that Biden aides asked her to hand-deliver a gym bag to him in a Senate office building and when she did, she alleges he moved in close, pinned her against a wall, slipped his hand under her skirt and penetrated her with his fingers."I'm saying unequivocally, it never, never happened.
Reade was critical of Biden’s campaign Thursday for their response to her allegation, saying there was a “measure of hypocrisy,” on their handling, given the former vice president’s comments. Reade’s brother, Collin Moulton, initially told ABC News he only heard her account of the assault this spring. But after the initial interview in late March, Moulton texted ABC News later that day to “clarify” his account, saying he remembered his sister telling him in 1993 that Biden had “more or less cornered her against the wall” and ‘put his hands ‘up her clothes.’”
Reade also told ABC News that she filed a written complaint following the alleged assault that Biden made her feel"uncomfortable,” but did not include the allegation of sexual assault she has since leveled against him, and that she did not retain a copy of the complaint.
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