Friday morning presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden denied that he sexually assaulted former Senate aide Tara Reade. Back in March, while appearing on a podcast she claimed that he sexually assaulted her back in 1993 when she worked in his office.
Biden’s campaign denied the accusations previously and he reiterated his innocence again Friday morning while appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Joe further addressed the allegations in a medium post and said, “I recognize my responsibility to be a voice, an advocate, and a leader for the change in culture that has begun but is nowhere near finished. So I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago. They aren’t true. This never happened.”
He continued, “While the details of these allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault are complicated, two things are not complicated. One is that women deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and when they step forward they should be heard, not silenced. The second is that their stories should be subject to appropriate inquiry and scrutiny.”
Reade reportedly said she filed a written complaint at the time of the alleged assault, however, the complaint has not been located at the moment. MSNBC reports that Joe’s senate office remains under seal at the University of Delaware until Biden retires from public life.
Joe said in his statement, “I am requesting that the Secretary of the Senate ask the Archives to identify any record of the complaint she alleges she filed and make available to the press any such document. If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.”
Check out Joe Biden’s appearance on “Morning Joe” below:
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