Joe Biden Remains Silent Weeks After Being Accused of Sexual Assault

Former Vice President Joe Biden has a nauseating history of inappropriately touching women. While his allies often dismiss this abhorrent behavior as “Joe being Joe,” a former employee of Biden alleged in an interview that he had sexually assaulted her in 1993.

Tara Reade, 56, worked as a staff assistant to Biden from 1992-93 while he represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate. According to Reade, Biden forced her against a wall and put his hands under her shirt and skirt after she delivered him his gym bag. “I remember it happened all at once… his hands were on me and underneath my clothes.” He then penetrated her with his fingers, she said.

Since Reade publicly revealed the assault in March and filed a criminal complaint in April, Joe Biden has yet to personally address the allegation. His campaign spokesperson issued a statement denying it occurred, but subsequent revelations corroborate Reade’s story. At least three people have backed up her telling of events.

Lynda LaCasse, who lived next door to Reade after she left Washington in 1993, told Business Insider: “This happened, and I know it did because I remember talking about it.”

Lorraine Sanchez, a former legislative aide who worked with Reade in the office of a California lawmaker from 1994-96, told Business Insider that she also heard Reade’s account shortly after she left Biden’s office in Washington.

A 1993 phone call to CNN host Larry King also appears to provide a contemporaneous account of Reade’s claim. Reade said that the woman who called into the show claiming that her daughter left a job in Washington after “problems” with a “prominent senator” was her mother, who died in 2016.

Reade has also called on Biden to release documents that would include a complaint form she submitted shortly after the assault. The documents are being held by the University of Delaware, and Biden previously said he would not make them public until after the presidential election.