I was reading about this too, although I didn't mention it b/c I didn't have a link. But yes, a journalist (I think) provided a detailed analysis of Reade's twitter feed and the tweets posted over the last year or two do not match the style, grammar, or voice of Reade's previously published work.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
wikipedia has a list of news sources about the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_sexual_assault_allegation
@jeanne-mayell also - here is a link to some of the old tweets with sections highlighted that seem problematic/inconsistent:
https://twitter.com/angrierwhstaff/status/1255983802758897667?s=21
@turtle26 Not good for Tara credibility. For what it is worth, I do not believe her testimony about penetration and find her earlier non sexual testimony also false. I have watched many women testify about these things, some in person and some in the news, and I have felt most of them to be truthful. But I don't believe Tara. She feels coached. As if she was told, "you have to up the ante and make it more like a rape," so she did. E. Jean Carrol's detailed story of her rape by Donald Trump is filled with attempts to hold herself responsible for what happened. She admits she flirted with him She admits she was a big girl, not a baby. She wanted to maintain her own dignity throughout, but in the end he raped her, it traumatized her for life, and I believe all of it. Tara Read's initial testimony felt disingenuous, all of it, like she was coached and pushed to make this up.Then she upped the ante with the penetration story and it sounds like a stereotyped made up story. What she reports that he said to her doesn't sound like him.
I have [excerpted] an article from "USA Today" on the Tara Reade allegations. This is from the point of view of an attorney and prosecutor. The author does a fantastic job of showing why we should be skeptical of Tara Reade.
Again, we were not there. But I will respectfully point out that, should Republicans and Trump supporters continue to try to make an issue of this, they also need to respond as to why Trump refuses to submit a DNA sample to prove he didn't rape Jean Carroll. Considering Carroll's case could be proved/disproved by a DNA test, then there should be no reason why the Predator in Chief can't prove his innocence.
Unless, of course, Trump knows that the DNA on Carroll's dress will prove, at the very least, that his sperm was on her. Considering he claimed he never met her and that neither he nor Carroll have ever suggested a relationship, then Trump's DNA on Carroll's dress will prove that Trump is a sexual predator.
If I was a Republican, I would be very, very careful before I open up that can of worms. You can't claim that Biden and the Democrats are anti-women if you are unwilling to investigate an allegation against Trump where there is actual DNA. If enough people begin to point this out, then I suspect that the Republicans will suddenly lose interest in Biden and go on another issue to attack.
In the meantime, please read the following article. I find it to be very insightful.
"If we must blindly accept every allegation of sexual assault, the #MeToo movement is just a hit squad. And it's too important to be no more than that.
"During 28 years as a state and federal prosecutor, I prosecuted a lot of sexual assault cases. The vast majority came early in my career, when I was a young attorney at a prosecutor’s office outside Detroit.
"A year ago, Tara Reade accused former Vice President Joe Biden of touching her shoulder and neck in a way that made her uncomfortable, when she worked for him as a staff assistant in 1993. Then last month, Reade told an interviewer that Biden stuck his hand under her skirt and forcibly penetrated her with his fingers. Biden denies the allegation.
"When women make allegations of sexual assault, my default response is to believe them. But as the news media have investigated Reade’s allegations, I’ve become increasingly skeptical. Here are some of the reasons why:
"►Delayed reporting … twice. Reade waited 27 years to publicly report her allegation that Biden sexually assaulted her. I understand that victims of sexual assault often do not come forward immediately because recounting the most violent and degrading experience of their lives, to a bunch of strangers, is the proverbial insult to injury. That so many women were willing to wait in my dreary government office, as I ran to the restroom to pull myself together after listening to their stories, is a testament to their fortitude. ..
"As a lawyer and victims’ rights advocate, Reade was better equipped than most to appreciate that dramatic changes in sexual assault allegations severely undercut an accuser’s credibility — especially when the change is from an uncomfortable shoulder touch to vaginal penetration."
Other points made in the article.
►Implausible explanation for changing story...
►People who contradict Reade’s claim. ..
►Missing formal complaint. Reade told The Times she filed a written complaint against Biden with the Senate personnel office. But The Times could not find any complaint. When The Times asked Reade for a copy of the complaint, she said she did not have it. Yet she maintained and provided a copy of her 1993 Senate employment records..It is odd that Reade kept a copy of her employment records but did not keep a copy of a complaint
►Memory lapse. Reade has said that she cannot remember the date, time or exact location of the alleged assault...making it impossible for Biden to go through records and prove he could not have committed the assault, because he was somewhere else at the time...
►The lie about losing her job...
►Compliments for Biden...
►Rejecting Biden, embracing Sanders... By this January, Reade was all in for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders...
►Love of Russia and Putin...expressed in her tweets...
Michael J. Stern, a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors, was a federal prosecutor for 25 years in Detroit and Los Angeles
I read the article this morning, and I agree with the author.
Justice Beer's accuser remembered every little detail, and never wavered from her story. This woman has not only changed her story multiple times, but she says she filed a formal complaint, which no one can find and she says she didn't feel a need to keep a copy. Really? No receipt? So I doubt she ever filed a complaint. It would be recorded somewhere, for sure. She appears to be on Putin's payroll, too.
Do I think Uncle Joe touched her inappropriately on the neck and shoulders at some point in the early 1990s? Absolutely. Do I think he did anything more than that? Nope.
So if she has evidence, she should file a case with the appropriate prosecutor and get on with it, if not she needs to shut up. And as for Biden, he needs to get out in front of this resolutely and honestly.
In the 1990s I worked in an office. A law office. I have to consider that working in a Senator's office was at least as conservative as far as dress code as a law office. In 1990-1995 women doing office work were expected to wear pantyhose with skirts or dresses. To come into an office with bare legs-- you would be asked to go home and change--return appropriately dressed. So it is kind of unbelievable to me that he would have been able to do what she claims in such a manner.
I also worked for a boss who was like Biden-physically affectionate with people. He did a lot of shoulder, back and head patting, arm squeezing. I became a little uncomfortable with it and just asked him not to do that anymore. I didn't think he was being sexually forward, just a toucher, my Dad is the same way. He was more than a little taken aback and feeling bad/embarrassed thinking he made me so uncomfortable and it was a little awkward but after that he was more conscious when he was a around me and didn't do that anymore. When I left his employ he asked permission to give me a hug and wished me luck. It would not occur to me to call him out publically about that situation, it was a matter about personal space that was handled between adults.
I said the same exact thing to my husband early this week - so I ditto your thoughts on Tara Reade's story. Biden will have this and other things thrown at him by T and his minions, and some will run with this false story for a bit. She is definitely being coached and, in my opinion paid/and or intimidated to do so. I will even go so far as to say keep an eye on this story, at some point in the future I intuitively sense there may even be reporting on some money or evidence that will show that her story is false and she may face being in legal trouble.
Regarding the Reade story -- I'm not sure where the truth resides. I like Biden, and really want to believe that he's innocent, but something is nagging at me -- not sure what that is, but it won't let go of me. Perhaps what I'm feeling speaks more to what I spoke about months ago -- I wasn't seeing Biden (or, thankfully, the Mad King) as President in 2021, and I still don't. I'm wondering whether this Reade story is factoring into that vision that I have about Biden. It's a huge ? mark for me.
Has anyone heard any more about Lynda LaCasse, the neighbor of Reade, who went on record to say that Reade told her of the assault in the mid-90's? I heard LaCasse briefly interviewed, and she seemed believable. Hard to say.
@rowsella, in the 90's I also worked for a large law firm. One of the female senior associates came to me and confided that a male legal assistant cornered her in a file room and forcefully attempted to kiss her. Because she had to continue to work closely with him on a specific case, she was beside herself. This case was being led by a group of male partners, so I encouraged her to talk to them about what happened. When she told one of the partners what had occurred, his response was something like Are you sure about this? Because, you know, this is very serious. You have to be sure. Sure about WHAT? That it happened? To me there was almost a veiled threat in his response to her. I thought I knew this partner, and was frankly surprised by his response. Because of that, she didn't think it was worth pursuing. This male legal assistant was part of this all-boys network of attorneys, and they frequently went out together to Happy Hour after work. She was this incredibly smart attorney who just wanted to do her job. She ended up leaving about 6 months later, to work as counsel for one of our clients.
I do understand what you shared about your boss being a toucher. I've encountered a few male co-workers who were like that. It is often innocent -- sometimes just a part of their nature. Even sometimes a cultural thing. I really like the way you handled it -- personally and respectfully, both of yourself and him.
@triciact Funny you should mention money. Money was the last thing on my mind when I threw cards on her a few days ago but the Wealth Card (Thoth Ten Disks) came up first. The woman thinks she's going to be handsomely rewarded for her effort. And why not? The wealthiest stand to lose the most financially, if Biden is elected.