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For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the sexual assault allegations
against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden
are now a “closed issue,” one that’s no longer worth discussing.

The San Francisco Democrat did, however, agree with Biden’s
request for a search of Senate documents held by the National
Archives, to see if any proof exists of a complaint by former
Senate staffer Tara Reade about Biden from 1993, when Reade
claims the alleged sexual assault occurred.

Pelosi shared her views Tuesday in an interview with MSNBC’s Ari
Melber.

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It was the host who asked Pelosi whether she considered the case
against Biden – meaning the allegations by Reade – to be a
“closed issue.”

“Well, it is for me,” Pelosi responded.

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"I have said I am proud to support Joe Biden for president,”
Pelosi said. “I believe him when he says it didn't happen. But I
also believed him when he said, ‘Let them look into the
records.’ And that's what they should do.

"I believe him when he says it didn't happen. But I also
believed him when he said, ‘Let them look into the records.’ And
that's what they should do."

— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
"But I'm not going to answer this question again,” she added. “I
will just say, I have every confidence that Joe Biden will be a
great president of the United States.”

The remarks were a reiteration of Pelosi’s previous support for
Biden, which she previously expressed last Friday, after Biden
appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” – where he unequivocally
denied the accusations made against him.

"I have said ... I am proud to have endorsed Vice President
Biden," Pelosi said Friday during a conference call with the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus. "I thought that he dealt with it -
- a complete denial, support for women.”

A day earlier, Pelosi also revealed some frustration with having
to face reporters’ questions about Biden. At one point in a U.S.
Capitol news conference, she snapped at a reporter who inquired
about Reade’s accusations against the former vice president,
saying, “I don’t need a lecture or a speech.”

The Washington Examiner's Kerry Picket had asked whether
Democrats had a different "standard" for Biden than for then-
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, for whom Democrats were
demanding an FBI investigation over an alleged assault when he
was a teenager.

Meanwhile, it remained uncertain this week whether Senate
records from 1993 would be made accessible to the public – or to
anyone else, for that matter.

Senate Secretary Julie Adams issued a statement Monday saying
that "the Secretary has no discretion to disclose" the
information or records that Biden asked for -- specifically a
complaint that Reade claims she filed with what at the time
would have most likely been the Office of Fair Employment
Practices.

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Adams said she can't even confirm if the records exist, and not
even those involved in original complaints from the time can see
them.

Further, the University of Delaware -- which has additional
Senate records that Biden insists are irrelevant to the
allegations at hand -- told Fox News on Tuesday that those files
are closed to the public for now, absent Biden's “express
consent.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/pelosi-agrees-biden-reade-case-is- closed-issue-im-not-going-to-answer-this-question-again

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