A woman who briefly worked as an aide for Joe Biden in the 1990s has expanded her claims that he harassed her to now include an instance of sexual assault, which Biden's campaign denies and says is untrue.
in 2018, in part for his role in making secret payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.came forward with her story of Biden inappropriately touching and kissing her without consent
None of those women accused Biden of crossing the line into sexual assault. That includes Reade, who inin The Union, her local newspaper in Nevada County, California, said that Biden had inappropriately touched her during her time working in his office, rubbing her neck in a way that made her feel uncomfortable, and that she'd been asked to serve drinks at a fundraiser because she was told that Biden, then a senator, thought she had nice legs.
"What's hard for me is I don't want Donald Trump to be president," Reade said, noting that she tried to come forward when other Democrats were still left in the field. When she pulled away, Biden"just looked at me and said: 'You're nothing. You're nothing to me,'" Reade said. She said that after that, Biden tried to reassure her, saying,"You're fine, you're fine, you're OK." After that, she said, he adjusted his clothing and walked away.
Reade said that while she never came forward about what she said was an assault to her superiors in Biden's office, she was vocal about feeling harassed and made uncomfortable during the months she worked there."I remember saying I was uncomfortable and why. But nothing happened,"She named Baker, the former executive assistant; Kaufman, Biden's former chief of staff; and Dennis Toner, who also worked in the Senate office, as three people she complained to at the time.
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