New Evidence Supporting Credibility of Tara Reade's Allegation Against Joe Biden Emerges

of evidence has emerged buttressing the credibility of Tara Reades claim that she told her mother about allegations of sexual harassment and assault related to her former boss, then-Sen. Joe Biden. Reade has claimed to various media outlets, including The Intercept, that she told her mother, a close friend, and her brother about both the harassment and, to varying degrees of detail, the assault at the time. Reade told The Intercept that her mother called in asking for advice after Reade, then in her 20s, left Bidens office. Congressional records list August 1993 as Reades last month of employment with Bidens Senate office, and, according to property records, Reades mother, Jeanette Altimus, was living in San Luis Obispo County. On the other hand, the reference to being unable to get through with her problems aligns with Reades claim that she complained to superiors in Bidens office and got nowhere, and the reference to going to the press makes clear that the caller is talking about more than just generic problems at the office. Reade said that she filed a complaint about Bidens harassment with Marianne Baker, effectively the office manager in the Biden office. In all my years working for Senator Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone, Baker said in the campaigns statement. For Bakers statement to be true, Reade would have had to have lied to her friend, brother, and mother about having complained to Bidens office. There is no obvious reason Reade would make up a story to those closest to her about the Senate office not taking Bidens harassment seriously, while at the same time resisting pressure to go to the press. Reade said that her impression was that Biden believed he had consent, and was surprised at the rejection, but that she had done nothing to give him that