And It’s Gone: Nets Already Done With Covering Rape Claim Against Biden

Nicholas Fondacaro | May 4, 2020
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Just four days after the broadcast evening newscasts finally covered the rape allegation against presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the first time, after ignoring it for over a month, ABC, CBS, and NBC had had enough. During their Monday evening newscasts, none of them ran stories on the subject despite developments still breaking over the course of the day. NBC’s Today was the only morning newscast to give the allegations airtime, and even then they were batting for Biden.

“Today there are intensifying calls from both sides to search for any complaint that might exist from Joe Biden’s former Senate staffer Tara Reade, who says he assaulted her 27 years ago,” announced senior Washington correspondent and Democratic establishment fan Andrea Mitchell.

That complaint would be another piece of contemporaneous evidence that would back up Reade’s claims. Despite the fact that the search was still ongoing, Mitchell declared that “no record of it has been found,” as if the search was exhausted.

Mitchell did all she could to cast doubt on Reade’s allegations:

Reade, who alleges Biden pinned her against a wall and assaulted her in a Senate corridor back in 1993, has previously said she did not mention sexual assault in the complaint. Saying instead, it cited sexual harassment. But this weekend, Reade texting NBC News saying, quote, “I filed a complaint re sexual harassment and retaliation but I am not sure what explicit words on that intake form until we all see it again.” In an interview with the Associated Press, she added, “I know that I was too care to write about the sexual assault.”

Meanwhile, the liberal media told us that the poor memory of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford wasn’t a problem when she was accusing Justice Brett Kavanaugh of heinous acts.

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