'No, It is not true. I'm saying unequivocally it never, never happened,' Biden said.
WASHINGTON - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden denied on Friday that he sexually assaulted a former U.S. Senate aide in 1993, in his first public remarks on the subject after he faced intense pressure to personally address the accusation.
Biden, 77, who will be the Democratic nominee to face Republican President Donald Trump, 73, in the Nov. 3 U.S. election, had faced growing pressure from within and outside his party to directly address the accusation. In the interview Biden said personal papers from his Senate years, which were donated to the University of Delaware and have yet to be made available to the public, do not contain any personnel files.
"Women have a right to be heard and the press should rigorously investigate claims they make. I'll always uphold that principle," he said."But in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters." "I think he should respond," Trump told reporters on Thursday ahead of the Biden interview."It could be false accusations. I know all about false accusations."
Reade, 56, told media interviewers she complained at the time about sexual harassment, though not sexual assault, to three of Biden's Senate aides. The Biden campaign released a statement from one, Marianne Baker, who said she never received any report of inappropriate behavior in nearly 20 years of working for Biden.
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