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Former Senate aide Tara Reade called on House Republicans to launch an investigation into allegations that she was sexually assaulted by
then-Sen. Joe Biden in 1993, telling the Daily Caller that she would be
willing to testify under oath.

“It would be a very different thing, if I could testify under oath,”
Reade told the Caller, adding that she would “provide whatever
information [Congress] needed and [Congress] could ask me whatever
questions they wanted.”

“I think we need to have the conversation, instead of me being erased,
and other women that were erased that tried to come forward,” Reade
added, saying that House Republicans should launch an investigation
while they have a majority.

Reade alleged that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Senate corridor in
1993 by pinging her against a wall and reaching under her clothing
before sexually violating her. She said she filed a police report in
2020 about the incident, and that no thorough investigation has ever
taken place.

Interns and others that worked alongside Reade in Biden’s Senate office
denied knowing that any sexual misconduct took place between Reade and
Biden, the New York Times reported in 2020, citing interviews with the
former staffers. She could also not remember some details about the
incident, including the exact time, date and location, according to the
outlet.

Biden’s staffers who worked with Reade at the time, including aide
Dennis Toner, chief of staff Ted Kaufman and executive assistant
Marianne Baker, all denied that Reade came forward to them about the
alleged sexual assault.

Toner and Kaufman told NPR in 2020 that they did not remember Reade and
that she did not come to them about the allegations. Congressional
records show that she worked for Biden for approximately nine months.

Baker issued a statement saying, “In all my years working for Senator
Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period — not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone. I
have absolutely no knowledge or memory of Ms. Reade’s accounting of
events, which would have left a searing impression on me as a woman professional, and as a manager. These clearly false allegations are in
complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office
and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two
decades,” NPR reported.

If the Senate staff that served under Biden “had to go under oath, I
think they would have to admit something very different,” Reade said.

“He would put his fingers underneath the back of my neck, underneath my
hair, and then run his finger up and down,” Reade said. He would
“massage my shoulders, and touch me. It was just weird,” she added,
noting this happened before the incident in the hallway.

Spokespeople for Biden have repeatedly denied the allegations.

The White House did not respond to the Daily Caller at the time of
publication about the allegations and whether Biden would be willing to
testify under oath.

Reade claims her mother called into “Larry King Live” in August of 1993
and asked host Larry King what her daughter could do other than go to
the press with “problems” she encountered after working for a
“prominent Senator.”

Audio shows that a woman did call in to the show at the time, and Reade
has claimed that the woman on the line is her mother.

“I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in
Washington? My daughter has just left there, after working for a
prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all,
and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she
chose not to do it out of respect for him,” Reade’s mother allegedly
said.

King responded, “in other words, she had a story to tell but, out of
respect for the person she worked for, she didn’t tell it?”

“That’s true,” Reade’s mother allegedly said.

Video????@ReadeAlexandra — is this your Mom’s voice?
https://t.co/ospBhlKSvb pic.twitter.com/r5WsXJ2vQb

— Rich McHugh (@RichMcHugh) April 24, 2020

Reade’s friend said that she told her about the alleged assault at the
time, and another friend and Reade’s brother have said that Reade
informed them of the alleged assault over the years, The New York Times reported.

Reade told the Caller she filed a sexual harassment report through the
Senate in 1993, and that the report was filed on paper. If the paper
still exists, it would be sealed with Biden’s papers at the University
of Delaware, Reade added.

She continued that when she brought her complaints to her superiors,
she was “threatened” and ultimately dismissed from her duties.

One of the press secretary’s staff at the time told Reade, “we’ll
f***ing destroy you, if you go forward,” Reade told the Caller.

The intimidation and trauma led Reade to not come forward for years,
she said.

“I was 28-years-old, it was scary to hear at the time. It was at the
beginning of my political career, and it kind of shut me up,” Reade
continued.

House Republicans have announced that they are launching an
investigation into Biden, alleging that the president was “involved” in
his son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.

Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer, a ranking member of the House
Oversight Committee, did not provide comment on Reade’s request.

Biden supporters have used a 2020 probe into Reade allegedly providing
a false statement under oath in an attempt to discredit her.

South Bay, California, defense attorneys investigated whether Reade had
falsely described her education credentials under oath. A spokesperson
for her undergraduate college provided a statement to CNN saying she
never graduated, according to the Intercept.

The probe was concluded and no charges were filed, according to the
Intercept, and Reade has sent letters to several publications demanding
that their claims about her alleged false claims be clarified.

Reade’s critics have also accused her of working with the Russian
government, citing her four op-eds published in the Russian government publication RT.

Reade told the Caller, “no Russians were there in 1993 when Joe Biden
sexually assaulted me. No Russians were there when Biden team
threatened me, used their power and resources to try to silence me. My political opinions about Russia are simply not relevant to what
happened.”

“I was proud of the handful of op-eds that were published. I tried to
have one published in the New York Times but it was rejected. Bottom
line, I was Joe Biden’s full time staffer in 1993 when he sexually
harassed and assaulted me. Any other conversation about what I thought
or even who I worked with now is irrelevant to the crime he committed
in 1993 and as to why Biden has never even been investigated,” she
added.

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