Joe Biden accused of sexual assault

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Re: Joe Biden accused of sexual assault

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Icarus wrote:
Sat May 23, 2020 1:25 am
So Tara Reade's attorney dropped her as a client.
True, though he says it's not due to disbelieving her claim against Biden. The whole thing about lying regarding having earned a degree is pretty shady on her part, though. Claiming the school having no record of her having earned a degree was due to her being part of a protected program to shield her identity? It gives her vibes of McKenna Denson or whatever her name was.
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Re: Joe Biden accused of sexual assault

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honorentheos wrote:
Sat May 23, 2020 1:55 am
Icarus wrote:
Sat May 23, 2020 1:25 am
So Tara Reade's attorney dropped her as a client.
True, though he says it's not due to disbelieving her claim against Biden. The whole thing about lying regarding having earned a degree is pretty shady on her part, though. Claiming the school having no record of her having earned a degree was due to her being part of a protected program to shield her identity? It gives her vibes of McKenna Denson or whatever her name was.
I believe this decision was made after there was an investigation into Reade's credibility as an expert witness. Apparently she likes to make things up. But yeah, I'm sure her story of being fingered by the guy she praised and cyber staked for decades is legit.
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She certainly appears to have credibility issues. It's not good to have lied about being degreed. But it's another level of problematic to then attempt to defend it by claiming the school has not record of her degree due to her having been in some weird protection program. That's more than a red flag she has something going on.
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Tara Reade seems less and less credible the more I learn about her. If Trump or some individual organization supporting Trump got her to make up the whole thing, it would be far from the first time someone fabricated a false narrative to help Trump or discredit democrats or liberals. Remember Pizzagate and the numerous scams perpetrated by Project Veritas?
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Re: Joe Biden accused of sexual assault

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Gunnar wrote:
Sat May 23, 2020 6:34 am
Tara Reade seems less and less credible the more I learn about her.
This incident has actually been quite instructive. Woman files report, people listen, take it seriously, investigate, find out this one is BS, put it in context.

That's the way it's supposed to work.
If Trump or some individual organization supporting Trump got her to make up the whole thing, it would be far from the first time someone fabricated a false narrative to help Trump or discredit democrats or liberals. Remember Pizzagate and the numerous scams perpetrated by Project Veritas?
Well, since the GOP doesn't govern, and don't make any bones about that (they are anti-government, after all; they say government sucks and prove it by being themselves every day), making up BS is pretty much their full time job. Lucky for them, they have plenty of willing participants in their base to help. Plus, they have plenty of experience being corrupt, so their stories ring true if you just replace them with whoever they happen to be accusing at the time.
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Re: Joe Biden accused of sexual assault

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Wait. Did the FBI investigate the allegations?

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Re: Joe Biden accused of sexual assault

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Some Schmo wrote:
Sat May 23, 2020 2:59 pm
investigate, find out this one is ____,
Seriously? You have to stop kissing Biden's ass. There is no way to "find out this one is ____"
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Like Trump purging the FBI's top attorney, it's being lost in the chaos of the news, but information on Tara Reade's Russian connection has been upgraded from having loopy writings in praise of Putin into something more troublesome:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/p ... biden.html
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Re: Joe Biden accused of sexual assault

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EAllusion wrote:
Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:17 am
Like Trump purging the FBI's top attorney, it's being lost in the chaos of the news, but information on Tara Reade's Russian connection has been upgraded from having loopy writings in praise of Putin into something more troublesome:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/p ... biden.html
She seems to be a person who has had a very sad life. In the past she evidently got quite a few people to trust her for varying lengths of time, but has ended up making them feel that they had made a mistake.
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