Tara Reade's brother, a friend and two other women have said that the former Biden staffer told them about the 1993 assault.
Pelosi also asserted that she has backed Biden because he's"a person of great values, integrity, authenticity, imagination and a connection to the American people." She described the former vice president as"the personification of hope for our country."
Reade worked for Biden when he served as a senator from Delaware. She alleges that in 1993 he sexually assaulted her by penetrating her with his fingers without her consent in the hallway of a Capitol Hill office building after she brought him a gym bag. Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi arrive for the funeral of Representative Elijah Cummings on October 25, 2019, in Baltimore.Her brother and an unidentified close friend have confirmed to multiple media outlets that she told them about the incident shortly after it occurred. Two other women, a neighbor and a former colleague, have come forward to say that Reade told them about the incident in the mid-1990s.
Biden's campaign has said it is important for any woman's allegations to be heard and vetted by journalists. However, it has firmly denied that the assault took place. Multiple former Biden staffers, who worked for him in the Senate at the time that the assault allegedly occurred, have said such behavior was entirely out of character for the man they worked for.
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