Another Corroborating Witness Says That Reade Complained of Sexual Harassment By Her Former Boss in the Mid-90s

Can't wait to see Chris Wallace and the Fox "Brain Room" scramble to come up with further reasons to suppress this story.

BI also spoke with a second person who remembers Reade telling them about sexual harassment in the mid-90s. Lorraine Sanchez worked with Reade in the office of California State Senator Jack O’Connell from 1994-96. She says Reade told her "she had been sexually harassed by her former boss while she was in DC." Sanchez told BI she doesn’t recall if Reade specifically mentioned Biden or the details of the harassment, but she does recall reassuring Reade that nothing like that would happen in O'Connell's office.

John Sexton adds:

The media’s excuse for protecting Biden from these allegations should be over. All of the excuses about Reade changing her story have to be put away now that we know her story has been consistent with what she is now saying since 1995. That means Biden is finally going to have to answer these allegations himself. It's about time. As Reade's neighbor said, "This happened."

Biden should be careful how he denies this. There could be several more people out there who Tara Reade told about this decades ago. And that’s not all the Biden camp should be worried about. Because one thing we’ve seen in previous cases of alleged sexual assault is that once the silence protecting a powerful public figure ends, additional accusers come forward. That could happen in this case too.

Sagaar Egreti of the Hill's vidcast pointed out that Biden's camp did not just deny the sexual assault -- they denied that any complaint of any sexual nature was ever made to them.

Given that Reade, for one, was conclusively complaining about sexual harassment and sexual assault, it seems preposterous that she's not telling the truth about having filed a complaint with Biden's office.

Which would make the Biden denial false.

And we could check the files to see if Reade filed a complaint... except that the University of Delaware, which has possession of the records, has decided that they will place the records under seal until Biden completely retires from public life.

How convenient!

posted by Ace at 03:20 PM

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