Things are heating up in the 2020 Presidential Primary. After the suspended campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), he left former Vice President Joe Biden as the frontrunner and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. He and the incumbent Republican candidate Donald Trump will fight for the presidency in November. A recent allegation made by a former staff member of Joe Biden’s senatorial office is getting the attention of a lot of Americans – except the attention of those in the media and of the Democratic Party, who have given it little to no attention.
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Tara Reade, a former aide to Joe Biden when he served as U.S. Senator to Delaware, began calling attention to her former boss when she reported to a Nevada-based newspaper, The Union, in April 2019 that he “touched her several times making her feel uncomfortable”. However, one evening the advances climaxed to one troubling encounter with the former Senator and Vice President when, “while she was tasked with delivering a gym bag to the former senator, Biden pinned her against a wall and digitally penetrated her without her consent in the basement of a Capitol Hill office,” according to an article published in USA Today by Jeanine Santucci. “After Reade says she complained to supervisors about harassment, but not assault, she had her responsibilities scaled back as a result until she was eventually told to find a new job [just 9 months into her employment]. In interviews with the Associated Press and The New York Times, Reade was inconsistent in naming the supervisor who told her to move on.”
This incident has since been corroborated by several former neighbors who were aware of this incident as Reade described it. It has also been additionally affirmed by an archived video from The Larry King Show on CNN in 1993 that describes a woman, who Reade has confirmed is her mother, asking how to address the situation involving whom the mother coined as “a prominent senator.” Here's the video:
Larry King Live, 1993. Video Courtesy of CNN.Unfortunately, we do not hear any outcries from the Democrats? No, we hear the sound of endorsements from individuals such as former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and so on. What happened to the #MeToo narrative that dominated the media for years and was the cry of the left? What happened to their plea on behalf of sexual assault victims to Americans: “Believe them!”?
We all remember when Dr. Ford accused the now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault at a party in high school over 30 years ago. The MSM (mainstream media) covered the Kavanaugh hearings continuously for weeks – amounting to hundreds of stories regarding the soon-to-be Justice Kavanaugh. They humiliated him, degraded him, and even hurled insults and death threats at him, even though Dr. Ford’s claims were ultimately deemed spurious and debased. But what about Joe Biden? How have they commented? They have commented very little, almost with pure silence. What is the difference between these two instances?
Kavanaugh is a conservative. Biden is a democrat.
Therefore, how can we justify this? Is it because the MSM favors the Democrats and pushes its agenda over the Republican party? Evidently. Is it because the MSM reports political bias instead of facts? Inarguably. Is it because they don’t want President Trump as Commander in Chief come 2021? Unequivocally. The hypocrisy of the Democrat Party has been made clear: They treat the issues within their own party as inferior in comparison to the issues they identify with the opposing side. While corruption and scandal rage through the Democrat Party, they are quick to attack the opposing side for their platform, policies, and shortcomings. The MSM has proven to be a sycophant to the Democrats, crafting their stories and coverages to shape the narrative developed by them. So, what does this mean for Joe Biden? Unlike Brett Kavanaugh, he will more than likely slip by the attention of the DNC (Democratic National Convention) and come out squeaky clean on the other side. Why? It’s an election year. There’s a lot at stake for the DNC – power, prestige, and the presidency. It doesn’t matter what sacrifices have to be made, whose tracks have to be covered up, what “hush” money has to be delivered – they are determined to garner as much power as possible, even if that means leaving a completely traumatized former staffer to deal with the pain of what had happened and the pain of no justice ever being sought for her.
This is all something we should consider when we vote on November 3rd.
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Awesome piece, Devin.