New Socialist South Africa wrote:LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:Still, if they didn't bring this up the instant Biden decided to run for President, it makes me suspect a pro-Trump agenda.
Either that or a belief that a choice between alleged rapists would make people finally vote third party. I wouldn't share their wishful thinking, though.
So Tara Reade has stated that she initially didn't raise this because she faced massive backlash and hatred when she just mentioned Biden sexually harassing her by touching the back of her neck. That convinced her to not come forward with the more serious allegation that he sexually assaulted her earlier. She then decided to bring the case in January this year, but her lawyers with the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) got her to delay laying charges against Biden until he dropped out, because they were worried about losing their non-profit status if they laid charges against someone running for federal office (in this case the Presidency). Then, when Biden didn't drop out (and started becoming the presumptive nominee) they dropped her.
Ryan Grim has spoken about how they actually didn't need to do this, and it seems to have been a fuck up on the NWLC's part, as well as on Time’s Up's part (see: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/).
It seems far more likely to be more a standard fuck up, or at most an ideological desire on NWLC's and Time's Up's part to protect Biden against Trump (viewing Trump as the greater of two evils), than a pro-Trump scheme that required getting a lifelong Democrat who had been a staffer for Biden in 1993 all to accuse him of sexual assault 27 years later. That's the type of scheme that just requires too many variables to work perfectly all for you to probably hurt the guy who might possibly be the presumptive nominee in almost three decades time.
Okay, fair enough.
It's a sad lesson for future generations; "then and there" might turn out to be one's last chance to report it...