Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has vehemently rejected allegations of sexual assault against him. „You are not true. That never happened, ”he said today in a written statement. For the first time, Biden made public statements about the allegations against him.
Women deserve to be treated with decency and respect, and when they make allegations, they should be heard and investigated, he said. Biden called on the media to closely examine the inconsistencies in the allegations against him.
A former employee from Biden’s time as a US senator, Tara Reade, accuses the now 77-year-old of having pressed her against a wall in a Senate building in 1993, reaching under her skirt and penetrating it with his fingers.
No clear evidence has been found so far
Biden’s campaign has clearly rejected the allegations, but the Democrat himself has so far been silent on the allegations. He wants to run against incumbent Donald Trump in the November presidential election. The allegations cast a shadow over his ongoing election campaign.
Reade had made her allegations public in a podcast several weeks ago. Major US media, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, then began research, speaking to Reade, the woman’s companion at the time, and former Biden employees. They found no clear evidence for their representation. The woman’s accounts raise some questions. Recently, however, more and more snippets of information came to the public – which increased the pressure on Biden to break his silence.
