Joe Biden's alleged victim, Tara Reade, says Biden's dark side came out in anti-MAGA speech

Former Biden Senate staffer Tara Reade whose allegations of sexual assault against then her 1993 boss first surfaced during the 2020 election says she believes the president’s darker side is becoming more apparent.

Reade’s comments recently surfaced in the Washington Times in an interview with one of its editorial board members in an opinion column. The author of the column said he decided to revisit Reade’s allegations in the wake of Joe Biden’s recent Sept. 1 Philadelphia speech at Independence Hall in which he chastised Trump supporters, labeling the entire MAGA movement a “threat to the country.”

“This last speech felt like it was a very pointed public relations campaign to create an image that never was,” Reade told the Times of the president’s Sept. 1 comments in Philadelphia.

“Biden seemed so weak. The blood red background, having the two Marines there, he was sending a message to voters that he’ll go after them if they don’t agree with him. This is like the very thing he did to me, and it is the embodiment of insecurity. It is the impostor syndrome. Joe Biden was always a lightweight. He liked the image. He liked women. He liked to be adored. But he’s the embodiment of the insecure man trying to be the alpha, and what’s exasperated it is the aging process. He’s different now in certain ways, but he was always insecure.”

When Reade’s original allegations she didn’t get the usual support of the press as most women did amid the peak of the #metoo movement. She said that when Biden came on to her, it was in a Senate building hallway in 1993 shortly after she started working for him. The former Delaware senator purportedly kissed her neck and hair, stuck his hand up her blouse, and then forced his knee in between her legs to reach up her skirt.

According to Reade’s account, Biden got angry she wasn’t responding as he hoped.

“Come on man, I heard you liked me,” he allegedly said, and after she refused to give in, he got angry, saying, “You’re nothing to me. Nothing.”

Reade told the Times that stayed with her.

“Imagine one of the most powerful people on the planet saying you’re nothing, someone who I thought would be a mentor, someone I respected and believed in. It affected my self-esteem, it haunted me,” she told the Times. “I knew my career was over, that I was done there, and I kept trying to find ways to get past it, but I had hurt his ego, and that was that.” Soon after that she was let go.

Reade believes Biden’s ego is a significant reason he’s attacking President Donald Trump and his supporters.

“Underneath the commanding finger pointing and authoritative speeches about protecting democracy and prosecuting ‘insurrectionists’ is a terrified beta male who fears his challengers,” she told the Times.

Nearly three decades have gone by since Reade worked with Biden. She’s been disappointed that some mainstream media outlets have done their best to continue defending the president.

She says she isn’t a MAGA supporter, but she believes all Americans have a right to believe what they want.

“I had a foreboding that we were about to enter an authoritative state, but with Biden, not Trump,” she told the Times. “But it’s not just him. It’s the people around him. They have an agenda to vilify half the country, not just because they voted for Trump, but because they want their freedom back.”