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Trump 'sticks up' for Biden amid rape allegations, warns that more accusers will emerge

The president, who himself has faced multiple charges of sexual misconduct, spoke hours after Biden broke his silence and denied Tara Reade's allegations
UPDATED MAY 2, 2020
(Getty Images)
(Getty Images)

It's almost as if life's coming full circle for President Donald Trump. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the tycoon-turned-politician faced some serious accusations related to mistreating women and talking dirty about them. This time, he has found a golden opportunity to pay it back to his opponents as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, has faced similar charges. The former Senator from Delaware has been accused of raping one of his aides in 1993 and the matter has gradually started gaining momentum in poll-bound America. 

The aide, Tara Reade, who was 29 at the time of the alleged incident, talked about it in late March and later accused the electronic media of not asking Biden enough questions about it. She even questioned whether things would have been the same had Trump or Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh faced such allegations. Reade also blasted former secretary of state Hillary Clinton after she endorsed Biden, saying she enabled a "sexual predator".  Biden denied the allegations only on May 1, nearly over a month after Reade publicly accused him of assault.

Trump opened up on the issue during an interview on the ‘Dan Bongino Show’ — a conservative radio program. He said the former vice president could see similar accusations from others surfacing against him. The president, who would take on Biden in the November 3 election, called Reade "credible" but suggested that in dealing with the allegations that she has brought, Trump would like him to get in front of it and deny it. He advised Biden to go out and fight it, saying the Democrat would have to face his own battles. 

The president, however, did not give specific evidence about the other accusations he said could emerge.

President Donald Trump with Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh (Getty Images)

"In a way, you could say I’m sticking up for him, but the mother was very compelling, certainly," Trump said referring to a call Reade's mother made to CNN at the time the sexual assault is alleged to have occurred. The woman's mother though did not specify about the incident.

"I watched her, and she seems very credible," the president said, adding: "The mother was so credible. The mother was great, and, I guess, a friend came out, so I don't know.”
One of Reade’s neighbors in 1993 also said that she confided in her the details about the alleged incident. 

Biden breaks silence on Reade accusation, denies it

It was on the same day earlier that Biden addressed the issue himself for the first time. Denying it firmly, the 77-year-old said in a statement released on Friday morning: "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."

Also speaking on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ the same day, Biden reiterated the same saying: “I’m saying unequivocally that it never, never happened.”

However, since he launched his presidential campaign last year, Biden has been accused by many women of touching them inappropriately.

The president, who was heard speaking infamously about grabbing women by their genitals without their consent in a leaked audio before the 2016 election, said he never even saw people who accused him of sexual misconduct.

He also stood by his tainted ally Kavanaugh saying the allegations of Reade sounded more convincing than Christine Blasey Ford, one of the women who accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in his younger days. Trump campaign spokeswoman Sarah Matthews said a month has passed since Reade made these charges of sexual assault. "The mainstream media has a different set of rules for Biden, and the double standards can’t be more clear: avoid asking him tough questions on Ms. Reade’s allegations," she said.

Matthews added: "There is contemporaneous corroborating evidence of Biden’s alleged wrongful actions that didn’t exist for Judge Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing, where there was virtually no supporting evidence at all."

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