Joe Biden Said He Believes All Women. Does He Believe Tara Reade? – Reason.com

Joe Biden Said He Believes All Women. Does He Believe Tara Reade? – Reason.com:

• A former staffer says he sexually assaulted her in 1993.

"When it comes to #MeToo sexual misconduct issues, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, has made it no secret where he stands: automatically believe women.

"For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real," said Biden during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who faced accusations that as a teenager he had assaulted a woman at a party.
...now the former vice president is facing a much more serious accusation of sexual assault, from an alleged former staffer named Tara Reade.