The Biden campaign says the incident, alleged to have occurred in 1993, "absolutely did not happen."
WASHINGTON — A woman who briefly worked as an aide for former Vice President 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.
A fifth person, who also spoke with NBC News anonymously, recalled that Reade told her in the mid-2000s that Biden had been inappropriate and touched her when she worked in his office but that she didn't detail the alleged assault. Reade said that she also told her mother, who has since died, and her brother, who has told The Intercept that he remembers having been told about an incident at the time.
She also said that at the time of the incident, she filed a formal complaint through a Senate personnel office. In it, she said, she complained of harassment but didn't allege an assault. It was just over a year ago that a former Nevada legislator, Lucy Flores, came forward with her story of Biden inappropriately touching and kissing her without consent. Flores was the first of several women who would soon come forward and, in interviews with NBC News and other outlets at the time, recount how the self-described"tactile" politician's close physical contact made them feel uncomfortable.
In a posting on Medium from 2018 that has since been deleted, she called Putin"a compassionate, caring, visionary leader" and said she hoped"America will come to see Russia as I do, with eyes of love." Reade explained that at the time she was working on a novel and said the writings don't represent her current feelings toward Russia or Putin. But the reaction online"really shut me down," she said."I didn't feel safe.
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. 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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