Headline Roundup • May 1st, 2020
Biden Denies Sexual Assault Allegation
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The Daily Caller
The media afforded former Vice President Joe Biden 37 days of silence in regards to a sexual assault allegation against him.
Biden was directly asked about former Senate staffer Tara Reade’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s for the first time Friday. Before that moment, Biden had only rejected the accusation through a spokesperson, despite numerous public interviews in the five weeks since Reade publicly accused him.
The presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee denied sexually assaulting Reade on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Friday.
CNN Digital
Joe Biden released a statement Friday denying a former aide's claims he sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, saying of Tara Reade's allegation: "This never happened."
Friday's statement is the first detailed response from Biden to Reade's allegation.
"While the details of these allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault are complicated, two things are not complicated. One is that women deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and when they step forward they should be heard, not silenced. The second is that their stories should be subject to...
NPR (Online News)
More than a month after being publicly accused of sexual assault by a former Senate staffer in the 1990s, former Vice President Joe Biden says the allegations "aren't true. This never happened."
Biden's campaign released a statement Friday morning from the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee shortly before a live television interview with MSNBC. The statement and interview are the candidate's first direct response to the allegations by former Biden Senate staff assistant Tara Reade.
In the statement, Biden seeks to walk the line between respecting and listening to sexual assault...
