Democrats are twisting themselves into knots as they justify reasons to ignore Tara Reade in order to continue supporting Joe Biden:
THE HILL – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) addressed the sexual assault allegation faced by former Vice President Joe Biden (D) during an interview with NPR on Thursday, explaining that it was not a “clear cut” situation for Democrats.
Questioned on what she wanted to see happen in response to Tara Reade’s allegation of a 1993 assault, which Biden has publicly denied, the New York lawmaker noted that Reade herself had not called on Democrats to abandon their support of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
“It’s very difficult because this is a hyper-politicized zone, right? Instead of focusing on her account, instead of focusing on her story as a survivor, people are fast-forwarding to the political implications. ‘Do you want Trump to win? Will you be voting for Joe Biden?’ And that denies justice in this situation,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“I think a lot of what we can look for is, look at the aims that the survivor is asking for. And while a lot of folks, again, are trying to jump to the political implications, she has never explicitly said, ‘don’t vote for Joe Biden,'” Ocasio-Cortez said. “She hasn’t explicitly said anything in terms of a political remedy that she wants. If anything, it sounds like she simply wants to be heard.”
No you idiot. Reade doesn’t just want to be heard, she wants justice for what happened to her. She wants Joe Biden to pay for what he did to her.
And since when do we look to the victim for advice on whether to politically support her assaulter or not? I don’t recall any Democrats giving Brett Kavanaugh this kind of leeway. No, he was assumed guilty by Democrats who cared nothing for due process and they stated loudly that they couldn’t vote for a man who they falsely claimed had done what he was accused of doing. Por ejemplo:
We’re saying it loud and clear:
On Nov. 6th, if you are an elected official that minimizes, covers for, or ignores sexual assault, then we will replace you by electing survivors to office. #MeToo #CancelKavanaugh
✊🏽 Let’s go: https://t.co/kacKFI9RtI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 5, 2018
And let me remind AOC that Tara Reade herself has said she will never vote in an election again even though she’s been a faithful Democrat. If we’re giving this kind of leeway, can’t we extrapolate from this that maybe she doesn’t want the man who sexually assaulted her to win the election?
As has been made crystal clear, Democrats are not interested in holding Joe Biden to account for these accusations. There will never be a public hearing questioning Tara Reade and Joe Biden. There will never be the slightest inclination from Democrats to dig any deeper into what really happened. In fact The Hill reports that “Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) for president, went on to confirm in the interview that she would be voting for Biden in November’s election…”.