Trump told Fox & Friends that he isn't sure if the accusation lodged against Biden by Reade, who worked in the former vice president's office when he served as a senator from Delaware is false or not. The POTUS noted that Joe has to prove whatever he has to prove, or Reade has to prove it, but that's the battle he has to fight.
The president said several false accusations were made against him as well, adding that he hopes it is a false accusation against Biden as well. According to Reade, Biden assaulted her in 1993 in a Senate hallway. In an interview with journalist Megyn Kelly on May 8, the Biden accuser elaborated upon her account.
Last Friday, Biden denied the allegations and asked the National Archives to search for a complaint Reade claims she filed with a Capitol personnel office following the assault; however, the document search request was turned down by the Secretary of the Senate.
The president's statement comes just a day after The Tribune newspaper in San Luis Obispo, California reported that a 1996 court document showing that Reade told her ex-husband she was sexually assaulted when she was working for Biden. It is worth noting that the document does not specifically mention that Biden was the one who assaulted her.
It can be recalled that Trump was accused of sexual harassment or misconduct by about fourteen women but he denied all of those accounts. During a podcast interview last Friday, the president asked Biden to go out and fight his accuser's claims, while his reelection campaign has left no stone unturned in an attempt to use the 27-year-old accusation as a weapon against Biden.
Trump wobbled back and forth between Tara Reade and her mother's accounts as believable to showing sympathy for Biden. He even drew comparisons to the accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and himself and spoke about the experience with women as a popular guy, emphasizing that he knows about been falsely accused.
Trump said he has been falsely accused by people he had never even seen on Dan Bongino’s podcast Friday, adding that some of them he met but with zero interest. The president said as soon as someone becomes wealthy, famous, and then the president, people you have never even seen or heard of come up making charges.
He even admitted that he is supporting Biden in a way. Biden made his appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe," on Friday where he denied accusations by his former aide, saying it unequivocally that it never happened.