• Biden campaign, Democratic supporters criticized by unlikely group: lib

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    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/biden-campaign-democratic- supporters-criticized-liberal-hollywood

    The Joe Biden campaign and its Democratic Party supporters have
    been doing
    their best to downplay former aide Tara Reade's sexual assault
    allegations
    against the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, but
    many
    staunchly liberal Hollywood stars are still taking notice.

    Reade's month-old claims gained steam last week after a clip
    from a "Larry
    King Live" episode from 1993 that allegedly includes Reade's
    mother
    alluding to the incident resurfaced. In an interview with Fox
    News earlier
    this week, Reade confirmed it was her mother's voice overheard
    on the
    other end of the phone.

    Outspoken actress Rose McGowan went on Twitter to demand justice
    and call
    out Biden for ignoring the claims.

    CLIP SURFACES OF BIDEN ACCUSER TARA READE'S MOTHER PHONING INTO
    'LARRY
    KING LIVE' IN 1993 ALLUDING TO CLAIM


    rose mcgowan
    ?
    @rosemcgowan
    TARA READE IS TELLING THE TRUTH https://twitter.com/richmchugh/status/1253812727262388224

    Rich McHugh
    ?
    @RichMcHugh
    Video????@ReadeAlexandra — is this your Mom’s voice? https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1253756644191809538

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    "TARA READE IS TELLING THE TRUTH," McGowan, who boasts 925,000
    followers,
    wrote Friday following the resurfacing of the 1993 clip.

    The actress-turned-activist took her beliefs one step further
    with a
    missive lashing out against the Democratic establishment and the
    media.

    “I used to be a proud Democrat,” the 46-year-old shared
    Wednesday. “I used
    to be a proud American.”


    rose mcgowan
    ?
    @rosemcgowan
    I’m really sad, and I’m really tired. I normally share thoughts,
    but
    tonight it’s emotion.

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    “I thought democracy meant…I had a right to choose those who
    lined up with
    my value system,” continued. “But what if there’s no one?”

    She went on to say that she had been raised on the idea that the
    Democratic Party “were the good guys” and that she felt “really
    quite a
    sense of loss.”

    "Now I know too much," she wrote.

    TARA READE RESPONDS AFTER DC POLICE SAY HER SEXUAL ASSAULT
    COMPLAINT
    AGAINST BIDEN IS 'INACTIVE'

    McGowan previously labeled her former "Charmed" co-star Alyssa
    Milano a
    "fraud" for ignoring Reade's claims. This may or may not have
    prompted
    Milano, a #MeToo advocate and Biden supporter, to break her
    silence with a
    piece titled "Living in the Gray as a Woman" published by
    Deadline.

    In it, Milano insisted that Reade's allegations against Biden
    "concern me,
    deeply," but that Biden is someone "who I can’t picture doing
    any of the
    things of which he’s accused."


    Deadline Hollywood
    ?
    @DEADLINE
    In this op ed, @Alyssa_Milano explains her position on
    addressing the
    allegation against Biden — and the pressure it places on women
    to admonish
    or absolve perpetrators https://deadline.com/2020/04/alyssa-
    milano-joe-
    biden-tara-reade-allegations-guest-column-1202921826/ …

    Alyssa Milano
    Alyssa Milano On Why She Still Supports Joe Biden & How She
    Would Advise
    Him About Tara Reade...
    Alyssa Milano has penned an editorial in which she explains her
    position
    on addressing Tara Reade's allegations against Joe Biden.

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    Still, Milano went on to offer Biden some advice as to how to
    handle the
    allegations going forward.

    "I’d advise him to face the allegation head-on, answer every
    question, and
    admit any wrongdoing, and to be the example for all men who face
    these
    kinds of accusations whether founded or not," Milano urged her
    preferred
    candidate.

    Meanwhile, Susan Sarandon, a staunch liberal and prominent
    Bernie Sanders
    backer, shared tweets in support of Biden's sexual assault
    accuser.

    BIDEN ACCUSER TARA READE TRASHES ALYSSA MILANO FOR DEFENDING
    CANDIDATE

    Sarandon's profile shows that the star retweeted three Twitter
    posts
    regarding the 1993 video clip, in which a caller to the King
    show, later
    confirmed to have been Reade's mother, asks King for advice
    regarding her
    daughter -- whom the caller claims had “problems” with a
    “prominent
    senator” for whom the daughter worked.


    Krystal Ball
    ?
    @krystalball
    Damn. NyTimes is pissed at the Biden campaign for lying about the
    conclusions of their reporting. As they should be. Some Trumpian
    stuff
    from the Biden folks. ??
    https://twitter.com/llerer/status/1255535955022405637

    Lisa Lerer
    ?
    @llerer
    Biden campaign talking points "inaccurately suggest a New York
    Times
    investigation found that Tara Reade’s allegation 'did not
    happen.' Our
    investigation made no conclusion." cc:@melbournecoal NYT spox
    response to
    this scoop by @rubycramer @RosieGray
    https://buzzfeednews.com/article/rubycramer/joe-biden-tara-
    reade-talking-
    points-campaign-defense …

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    Sarandon has been a vocal Sanders surrogate at least since the
    2016
    campaign. She said in a 2017 interview she couldn’t bring
    herself to vote
    for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and has slammed Biden recently for
    not being
    progressive enough.

    On Wednesday, comedian Sarah Silverman was the latest liberal to
    break her
    silence on Reade's allegations, this time calling out Senator
    Kristen
    Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) for voicing support for Biden after being
    one of the
    loudest voices calling for fellow Democratic senator Al Franken's
    resignation following accusations he jokingly groped a woman
    while she was
    asleep.

    WASHINGTON POST CALLS ON BIDEN TO ADDRESS TARA READE SEX-ASSAULT
    ALLEGATIONS, 'RELEASE RELEVANT RECORDS'


    Sarah Silverman
    ?
    @SarahKSilverman
    But u called on ?@alfranken? to resign w/out the ethics
    investigation HE
    asked for??

    Kirsten Gillibrand on Tara Reade allegation: 'I support Vice
    President
    Biden' - CNNPolitics
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/kirsten- gillibrand-joe-biden-support/index.html …


    Kirsten Gillibrand on Tara Reade allegation: 'I support Vice
    President
    Biden'
    Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has offered her
    support to
    presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden following accusations
    of alleged
    sexual assault by his former Senate aide, Tara...

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    "But u called on ?@alfranken? to resign w/out the ethics
    investigation HE
    asked for??" Silverman tweeted in response to an article titled
    "Kirsten
    Gillibrand on Tara Reade allegation: 'I support Vice President
    Biden.'"

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    Reade said in a March interview that in 1993, she was asked by a
    more
    senior member of Biden’s staff to bring the then-senator his gym
    bag near
    the Capitol building, which led to the alleged encounter.

    She said when she met him, he pushed her against a wall.

    “His hands were on me and underneath my clothes, and he went
    down my skirt
    and then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers and
    he was
    kissing me at the same time and he was saying some things to
    me,” she
    said.

    Biden’s campaign has vehemently denied the accusations, which
    others have
    also called into question because Reade said she doesn’t
    remember where
    the assault happened and some details in her story have changed
    over time.

    “Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an
    obligation
    to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so,
    because these
    accusations are false,” Kate Bedingfield, deputy campaign
    manager and
    communications director for the Biden campaign, said in a
    statement to Fox
    News last month.

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