I’m not sure why the dc police said they’d investigate if Kav’s accuser pressed charges but they can’t investigate this one ...
Not playing politics here although it appears they are ... i don’t understand ... maybe Kav’s wasn’t as long ago? ...
Very curious ...
Ford said that she had witnesses. If DC police started an investigation then they would have people to interview, plus give Kav an opportunity to provide a statement if he wished to.
I don't know enough about this case, but is Reade claiming there were witnesses? If not, or if she's already told them there were no witnesses, there really isn't much you can do as an "investigation".
Plus there's this weird phenomena that people will call to report random things, or report their innocence even when they aren't actually being investigated for anything. People file reports all the time saying they don't actually want anything done, they just want to put it on record "just in case". Whatever that's supposed to mean.
"Hey, I'm a reasonable guy. But I've just experienced some very unreasonable things." -Jack Burton
-It looks like the Harvard Boys know what they are doing after all.
The women should have her story looked into, but like anyone else, innocent until proven guilty. I will hold any judgement until an investigation leads otherwise.
CNN missing in action on Biden assault accuser Tara Reade's story
It has been nearly three weeks since former congressional staffer Tara Reade spoke out about her 1993 sexual assault accusation against former Vice President Joe Biden, but it wasn't until Easter Sunday that it began receiving any attention from the mainstream media.
And if you only watch CNN, you still haven't heard about it.
I know they believe that all the russia ,china and and women stuff about Truump is so horrific but the Ukraine, CHINA and women stuff about Biden is JUST NOT TRUE and even if it is, SO WHAT, when there is overwhelming evidence to at least investigate
Why would any pure hearted person ever and i mean ever have the gall to vote for a guy that eulogized a proven Klan member sen.BYRD when their main battle cry is RACIST,or BIGOT.
In the midst of the Democrats’ campaign to deny Brett Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme Court, Lawfare’s editor in chief, Benjamin Wittes, took to the pages of The Atlantic to argue that traditional concepts of due process were not applicable under the circumstances. Justice, he wrote, was merely an “optical” consideration, and in this case, “Kavanaugh himself bears the burden of proof.”
This upending of liberal ideals had nothing to do with the veracity of Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations — opaque, decades old, and unprovable — and everything to do with the accused party, upon whom, Wittes noted, we were about to “bestow . . . an immense honor that comes with great power.”
We don’t know if, in 1993, presidential hopeful Joe Biden sexually assaulted a woman named Tara Reade by pressing her up against a wall and digitally penetrating her without her consent. But under Wittes’s standard, it shouldn’t matter. Indeed, that we do not know is all that we need to know. No person in America is accorded a more “immense honor” or more “great power” than the president. Surely, as with Kavanaugh, the existence of the accusation is disqualifying?
Apparently not, for ideals of justice seem to be quite malleable these days. Journalistic norms, too. The same media that relayed every unsubstantiated and tawdry rumor during the Kavanaugh confirmation, and that happily transmitted the Michael Avenatti–produced gang-rape smear, is treating Reade’s story quite differently. Why, we might ask, isn’t Reade receiving the same coverage as E. Jean Carroll, a woman who accused Donald Trump of assaulting her in 1995 or 1996 at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan? Virtually every major news organization let Carroll tell her story. Reade has been trying to tell hers for decades. Believe women?
Indeed, to understand how to proceed, the media has only to take the advice of Biden, who two years ago argued that society had an obligation to presume that women who come forward with allegations of sexual assault should be believed irrespective of how flimsy that accusations may be:
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, whether or not she forgets facts, whether or not it’s been made worse or better over time.
Democrats should also be following this advice. Back in 2018, you will remember hearing the party arguing incessantly that “due process” was only a legal right, and that it was inoperative in Kavanaugh’s case because a Supreme Court hearing was nothing more than a “job interview.” Well, so is the presidency. A presidential election is just a job interview with the American voter. There are plenty of other candidates, no doubt, willing to take Biden’s place in the race. In fact, one major candidate is still in the race. (Granted, Bernie Sanders once wrote a creepy essay describing the sensuality of rape, but let’s set that aside for now.)
During the Kavanaugh hearings, Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s “chief legal analyst,” noted that “40 percent of the Republican appointees to the Supreme Court have been credibly accused of sexual misconduct.” Using this standard, if Biden wins in November, we will be able to say that two of the last three Democrats in office have been “credibly accused of sexual misconduct.”
Like many others, however, Toobin wants to have it both ways. Simultaneously, he argues that any genuine due process was impossible — and, by the “believe all women” standard, even undesirable — yet also describes Blasey Ford as “credible.” But if the integrity of the accuser and the plausibility of her claims matter in determining the credibility of her allegations — and I certainly believe they should — then we are in a due-process debate. And we can really only determine the “credibility” of an accuser who offers vague accusations if we question them. 55
Embarrassingly for Biden, he has argued that such questioning is per se inappropriate:
What should happen is the woman should be given the benefit of the doubt and not be, you know, abused again by the system. I hope that they understand what courage it takes for someone to come forward and relive what they believe happened to them and let them state it, but treat her with respect.
If this is what “should happen,” why don’t Democrats practice it — and why doesn’t Biden himself step aside in order to live by the standards he championed only two years ago?
Kinda hard to live up to your principals when u can’t remember what they are ... dudes got major “confusion” issues ... its really sad this is the best they can come up with ... what a f’n joke this is ...
and your team put up Trump. I bet you can see how ironic this makes your post.
I Love what Trump has done for us ... I will gladly vote for him .... no nose holding for me ...
I voted for Clinton twice knowing who he was ... I’m not voting for a role model and I’d much rather they act like our president as opposed to sound presidential ...
20 years ago i said we needed business people in gov’t ... and that’’s more true now that ever ...
Why would any pure hearted person ever and i mean ever have the gall to vote for a guy that eulogized a proven Klan member sen.BYRD when their main battle cry is RACIST,or BIGOT.
J\C
Why would any pure hearted person ever and I mean ever have the gall to vote for a guy that belittled a Gold Star Family.... A family that paid the ultimate price.
I imagine next you'll tell me he didn't.. but you'd be wrong.
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
So you are saying you are equally as bad as those you criticized over the last 3 years.
interesting.
He didn't say anything like that. You GOPers crack me up when you start out "So you are saying..." like your weak ass interpretations have any weight in reality. Take that stuff back to the cave and find some new material.
That gold star family was shamefully used as a prop for the Clinton campaign and put himself out there ....So that is your whattabout to you voting for a racist lol
What to Do With Tara Reade’s Allegation Against Joe Biden? A sexual assault accusation against the presumptive Democratic nominee is being used to troll the #MeToo movement.
By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist
April 13, 2020
verses.......
Pigs All the Way Down Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class.
By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist
Sept. 24, 2018
Just Michelle Goldberg, offering her very consistent opinions..
What to Do With Tara Reade’s Allegation Against Joe Biden? A sexual assault accusation against the presumptive Democratic nominee is being used to troll the #MeToo movement.
By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist
April 13, 2020
verses.......
Pigs All the Way Down Kavanaugh and our rotten ruling class.
By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist
Sept. 24, 2018
Just Michelle Goldberg, offering her very consistent opinions..
That's great!
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
All I know is that the first black pres. and the most powerful black congressman Jim Clyburn have no problem with Bidens eulogy of a powerful Klansman ,by endorsing a racist wheres the outrage from the left and minorities. I guess their racist insults toward the cons should be passe but agenda first a people second. SMFH Those are the facts that some hear are concerned about.
That gold star family was shamefully used as a prop for the Clinton campaign and put himself out there ....So that is your whattabout to you voting for a racist lol
After Trump belittled them
Facts are important...
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
No...the gold star father belittled Trump about his lack of knowledge of the constitution to sway people against voteing for for Trump as he was expected to do for Hillarys campaign on Nat. TV. who by the way voted for the Iraq invasi0n. I believe the the father should,ve not used his HERO son to spout his political preference IMO
... and after the Trump faceplant involving "no responsibility" and "total authority" it is an obvious fact that Trump does not understand the constitution at any level...
lol... rotflmao... and every other possible iteration...