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Evidence Mounts in Tara Reade’s Case Against Joe Biden
Content warning: descriptions of sexual assault
In recent days, evidence has mounted in support of former Senate staffer Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Reade initially revealed a detailed testimony of the 1993 incident in an interview with journalist Katie Halper last month. On April 24, The Intercept broke a story about a 1993 call Reade’s mother made to CNN’s “Larry King Live”, and, shortly thereafter, Reade’s former neighbor Lynda LaCasse came forward to corroborate details of Reade’s account.
In his recent piece, journalist Ryan Grim recounted Reade telling him in an interview that, shortly after the 1993 incident, she told her mother what had happened. Reade’s mother then called in to the CNN show “Larry King Live” to ask for advice. Indeed, evidence of such a call has surfaced. On August 11, 1993, Larry King introduced a caller from San Luis Obispo, California, which, as records indicate, was where Reade’s mother lived at the time. The caller then said the following:
“Yes, hello. 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…
