Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who recently accused presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden of sexual assault, slammed Hillary Clinton on Tuesday for endorsing the former VP’s presidential campaign.
Reade has claimed that Biden kissed her and penetrated her with his fingers without her consent in 1993, an allegation the Biden campaign has denied.
In lambasting Clinton, Reade made it clear that she expected more from a fellow Democrat.
“I voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. I voted for her in the primary. I’m a lifelong Democrat. But yet, what I see now is someone enabling a sexual predator and it was my former boss, Joe Biden, who raped me,” Reade told Fox News.
“Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct. We don’t need that for this country. We don’t need that for our new generation coming up that wants institutional rape culture to change.”
Reade added a touch of defiance.
“I will not be smeared, dismissed or ignored. I stand in truth and I will keep speaking out,” she said.
Many on Twitter supported Reade’s rebuke. Juanita Broaddrick, who has claimed she was raped by former President Bill Clinton, tweeted that Hillary Clinton was “good at enabling sexual predators.”
It’s true. She’s endorsing demented Joe. She’s good at enabling sexual predators and this is right up her alley.
Will they announce her as his running mate? We all knew this was coming. https://t.co/8MveVTvMjL
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) April 28, 2020
I guess it only makes sense that Hillary Clinton, who silenced the victims of her husband,
would support a campaign that is silencing Tara Reade.
Nothing ever changes.
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) April 28, 2020
Hillary Clinton—November 22, 2015:
"Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported."
So why is she appearing at Joe Biden's town hall today?
Why doesn't Tara Reade deserve to be "heard, believed, and supported?"
🤔
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 28, 2020
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