‘He pushed me against the wall’: Joe Biden accuser describes alleged sex assault
A former assistant has described Joe Biden’s alleged sex assault when he “pushed her up” against a US Senate hallway wall. WARNING: GRAPHIC
WARNING: GRAPHIC
A former assistant has described Democrat candidate Joe Biden’s alleged sex assault when he “pushed her up” against a US Senate hallway wall and says he “doesn’t deserve the presidency”.
Tara Reade worked as an assistant in Joe Biden’s senate office and said the physical assault happened in Washington in the Spring of 1993.
At the time, Biden was aged 50 and had been a senator for two decades, and Reade was in the first year of her job with the man she once considered her “hero”.
In an exclusive interview on Nine’s 60 Minutes, Reade described the encounter and why she believes Biden is a sexual predator.
“He said my name, we were alone in this corridor, and then the next thing I knew, he pushed me up against the wall,” she said.
“He kind of moved his body towards me and then he used his knee to separate my legs.
“He said ‘I want to f*** you’ and he was whispering in my ear and I was trying to get away from him.
“He put his hand up my skirt and he penetrated me with his fingers.
“When I pulled away, he was kind of almost annoyed and he looked at me and said, ‘I heard you liked me’.
“He was angry … he said ‘you’re nothing to me … you’re nothing’.”
Reade said that as a first-year assistant, it was a senator’s word against hers, so she kept quiet, only telling her mother.
She advised Reade “to go to the police right then and keep on what I was wearing”.
Asked by Nine News US Correspondent, Alexis Daish, why she didn’t do that at the time, Reade said police were “there to protect the senators and the congressmen, they’re not there to protect us”.
Reade is one of eight women who have accused the Democratic presidential nominee of inappropriate touching.
Prior to the sexual assault in the hallway, Reade said Biden had begun touching her.
“He would just put his hands … on my shoulder,” she said.
“Usually he’d put his hand and then he’d run his fingers and things like that.
“I’d never experienced that with a boss before.
“It’s not like there was, you know what I’m saying, there was no reciprocal relationship, or flirtation, there was nothing like that.”
Asked whether she told Biden not to touch her, Reade said she was “too scared to say” and like with other women, Biden “seemed to lack boundaries”.
“He’s like a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” she said.
After many years of saying nothing, finally last year Reade filed a written complaint to the Senate, but it did not mention Biden’s sexual assault, only his inappropriate behaviour.
Asked why she was now speaking out about it, Reade said: “I decided that people needed to know.
“He’s going to the highest office of the land.
“I know what his character is and he doesn’t deserve the presidency based on what happened to me.”
But what Reade alleges happened to her goes that and she said the assault still caused her immense emotional turmoil.
Joe Biden has denied that the assault against Tara Reade ever happened.
“He’s been misogynistic, he’s had sexual assault allegations, sexual harassment,” Reade told 60 Minutes. “He’s a blue Trump.”
Earlier this year, the former Vice President to Barack Obama went on US television and emphatically denied sexually assaulting Reade, saying the incident “never happened.” “They aren’t true. This never happened.”
In response to Biden’s denials, Reade said, “I know he knows.”
She said going public had cost her dearly.
“I lost work legitimacy, I lost my reputation, I lost friendships, I lost my housing, money, everything,”
“I think the fact he’s an elite Democrat put him in this untouchable position.”
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