Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, also called on the National Archives to release to the media “any record” of a complaint against him.
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has responded for the first time to a former Senate aide’s accusation of sexual assault, saying in a Friday morning statement that Tara Reade’s accounts “aren’t true” and “never happened.”
“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,” the former vice president said in the statement, which arrived about a half-hour before he was set to do his first interview on the subject with MSNBC’sBiden reasserted his denial at the top of his interview with Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC.
“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,” Biden said. “So I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago.”Biden is the last Democrat actively campaigning for his party’s nomination to face President Donald Trump in this fall’s general election.
Reade has said that soon after the incident, she filed a report in the Senate and complained directly to three former Senate aides, all of whomthey do not remember that happening. One of those aides, Biden’s former executive assistant Marianne Baker, said in a statement provided by the campaign this week that she never once witnessed or heard of “any reports of inappropriate conduct, period — not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone.
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