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1/ Honestly I’m pretty disturbed about the Recent reactions to the Tara Reade stuff by some liberals. The evidence suggesting that is she is lying is pretty weak IMO, and the Evidence supporting her claim is fairly strong.
2/ She told multiple people about the alleged assault over the next decade or so. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.amp.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4%3famp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4%3famp
3/ The Allegation itself (penetration with fingers) has remained consistent over time. This is important because evidence appears to show that people who make false rape accusations are prone to a past of “bizarre fabrications”
Or they “compulsively change their stories, adding dramatic detail” we simply don’t see this in the Reade case. https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/980766/the-truth-about-false-rape-accusations/amp/
4/ we have contemporaneous documentation via Reade’s mother’s call to Larry King that she was having issues with Biden and his office. This matches reade’s recollection https://theintercept.com/2020/04/24/new-evidence-tara-reade-joe-biden/
5/ Many have argued that the inability to find reade’s harassment reflects poorly on her. However Reade made multiple attempts to find the complaint, and has noted that the complaint does use the words “sexual harassment”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation
if she was lying, why would she even say that there was a complaint, if the lack of it’s existence could be used against her? And why would she say that the nonexistent claim didn’t use “sexual harassment”?
Given that Biden’s senate papers are under seal it would be improper to use the absence of the complaint against Reade. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/3077373001
6/some have argued that the fact that Reade changed her story from only being inappropriately touched, to being assaulted means that she cant be trusted. However in one review of sexual abuse in children the authors note:
“it is also not unusual for the victim to provide a partial report as a ‘trial balloon’ and later add to the report” https://books.google.com/books?id=FrCq3hCSQ2MC&pg=PA596&dq=partial+reporting+sexual+assault&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb98OB28jpAhURXM0KHRM6B0YQ6wEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=partial%20reporting%20sexual%20assault&f=false
The same issues can be found with adults as well https://books.google.com/books?id=lHkG8wLy2lkC&pg=PA257&dq=partial+reporting+sexual+assault&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj40qrQ3cjpAhUGG80KHcfUCssQ6AEISjAF#v=onepage&q=partial%20reporting%20sexual%20assault&f=false
7/ Joe Biden’s history with women is also relevant. He has been accused of inappropriate touching by 7 women (not including Reade). And while none of them have accused him of sexual assault, he clearly lacks the ability to judge personal space. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-allegations-women-2020-campaign-2019-6%3famp
IMO this adds to the prior probability that reade’s claim is accurate. Further Biden treatment of Anita hill during the Thomas confirmation hearings suggests that Biden has problems with women https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/biden-anita-hill-women-senate-clarence-thomas-213864
These issues go all the way back to the beginnings of Biden’s senate Career https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/
9/As @WorstYearPod notes: when assessing credibility, it’s important not to only look at Reade but Biden as well. And frankly his denials aren’t worth the paper they’re written on https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/8xwq4k/biden-had-said-he-worked-the-coal-mines-was-shot-at-in-iraq-and-marched-in-the-civil-rights-movement-he-has-not-done-those-things
10/ put all this together, and I find reade’s story convincing. However that does not necessarily mean that reade’s is accurate. And many have attempted to Poke holes in it.
11/ however Imo, by in large the ‘evidence’ that critics present has no value when determining the truth or falsity of reade’s sexual assault claim
Specifically they bring up Reade’s history of payment issues, particularly around a horse farm, and with landlords as evidence for her unreliable character. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/tara-reade-left-trail-of-aggrieved-acquaintances-260771
With the exception of the horse farm, a claim which Reade (and others deny) there is very little evidence presented that Reade knowingly lied https://twitter.com/ginakindscher/status/1252664866432663552?s=21 https://twitter.com/ginakindscher/status/1252664866432663552
Instead it shows evidence of class conflict, put simply Reade was poor.
The exception to this was from Reade’s ex-husband, who argued that reade’s Psychological issues caused her to exaggerate his abusive behavior. https://m.startribune.com/biden-accuser-s-life-marred-by-abuse-and-financial-hardship/570686642/
However while Reade and her husband were married she was granted a temporary restraining order against him. In addition her husband was admittedly physically abusive towards her (he argued that the abuse was bidirectional)
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/tara-reade-left-trail-of-aggrieved-acquaintances-260771
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2020/05/22/biden-accuser-tara-reades-life-marred-by-abuse-and-financial-hardship/%3foutputType=amp
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/tara-reade-left-trail-of-aggrieved-acquaintances-260771
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2020/05/22/biden-accuser-tara-reades-life-marred-by-abuse-and-financial-hardship/%3foutputType=amp
No other source that I could find corroborates her ex’s claims of exaggeration
12/ we now turn to the question of reade’s schooling. There is a question about whether or not she graduated from Antioch university with a B.A. as she portrayed in court testimony. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/19/politics/tara-reade-biden-allegation/index.html
Admittedly, knowingly lying under oath would be a major strike towards her credibility. Antioch says they have no record of her officially graduating. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/tara-reade-credentials.amp.html
However Reade Disputes this and in order to get into law school she would have needed a valid undergrad degree, which, According to the law school, she provided them. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/05/21/tara-reade-biden-expert-testimony-274460
What we have then is a dispute, and it’s certainly possible somehow reade attended and graduated from law school without actually having a BA. Alternatively, it’s also possible that Antioch has made a mistake.
We have not however heard directly from the individual that Reade said “fasttracked” her degree (only indirectly via a spokesperson) and Reade has provided a screenshot of a completed degree. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/tara-reade-credentials.amp.html
Given this, it would be wrong to use the B.A controversy as slam dunk evidence of Reade’s deceit, although Antioch must be looked into further
13/ Other questions, like can you be a visiting professor of “packet studies” need to be answered, but imo reade’s claim is strong and can’t properly be dismissed by the evidence currently at hand. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/05/21/tara-reade-biden-expert-testimony-274460
14. It is particularly important that when evaluating sexual assault claims that we only consider evidence that is actually germane to the case and I’m afraid some liberals are not doing that https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Jordan2/publication/237969221_Beyond_Belief/links/5772e94808aeef01a0b6616f/Beyond-Belief.pdf
15/ although they’d like to pretend they’re not, various liberals have been utilizing this playbook for dismissing evidence for decades https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1998/05/williams199805/amp
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiejmbaker/juanita-broaddrick-wants-to-be-believed
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiejmbaker/juanita-broaddrick-wants-to-be-believed
This is wrong and it needs to stop
