This is how CNN reported on the accusation made in 2020 by former Biden Senate staffer Tara Reade:
“Reade told CNN that in 1993 when she was working as an aide in Biden’s Senate office, she was asked to deliver a duffel bag to the then-Delaware senator. In a corridor somewhere in the Capitol Hill complex, Reade said Biden ‘had me up against the wall; he used his knee to spread open my legs,’ and ‘put his fingers inside me.’
Reade said when she pulled away, Biden said to her, ‘Come on man. I heard — I thought you liked me.’ Biden then looked angry, according to Reade, and said, ‘You are nothing to me. You are nothing.’ She said that Biden eventually took her by the shoulders and said words to the effect of, ‘You’re OK. You’re fine,’ before walking away.”
This was the headline in Politico https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/08/kamala-harris-taps-into-kavanaugh-rage-880923 on then-Senator Kamala Harris campaigning for president after her participation in the confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh had been accused – without proof – of sexual assault…in high school. The headline:
Kamala Harris rides Kavanaugh rage in likely 2020 bid
The story began:
“COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kamala Harris drew national attention for her combative questioning of Brett Kavanaugh before his confirmation to the Supreme Court.”
Now.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo now stands accused by seven women of sexual harassment. And compare, in particular, this allegation against Cuomo by a former female staffer. Here’s the headline from The Albany Times-Leader:
Female aide said Cuomo aggressively groped her at Executive Mansion
The story begins this way:
“ALBANY — A female aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo alleges he aggressively groped her in a sexually charged manner after she had been summoned to the Executive Mansion late last year, according to a person with direct knowledge of the woman’s claims.”
But here’s the headline about Gropey Joe Biden and the Kavanaugh- raging Harris on the subject of multiple sexual assault or harassment allegations against New York Governor “Randy Andy” Cuomo:
Biden, Harris refuse to call for Cuomo to resign as governor’s support collapses in New York, nationwide
Got that? Gropey Joe Biden, himself accused of sexual assault in vivid detail by ex-staffer Tara Reade, and Kamala Harris, professing rage at an unproved allegation against Brett Kavanaugh – from high school- now, suddenly, curiously find that when it comes to Governor Cuomo the cat has their tongue. Seven women (so far) are out there, one describing Randy Andy as he puts his hand up her blouse in the same fashion Biden himself was said to have put his hands down some panties.
Oh yes. Just in as this is written? Here’s the headline from Fox:
Cuomo has ‘preoccupation with his hand size,’ former aide Charlotte Bennett tells investigators
Yes indeed. You know exactly what that headline means without reading the story. But for the record here’s the money quote from Debra Katz, she the lawyer for one of Randy Andy’s accusers, Charlotte Bennett:
“One piece of new information that came to light today was the Governor’s preoccupation with his hand size and what the large size of his hands indicated to Charlotte and other members of his staff,” Katz added.
Ya can’t make this stuff up.
Whatever else this says it is crystal clear that, as suspected by conservatives for years, sexual harassment is not about sex but rather it is about politics.
Which is exactly why Gropey Joe and his VP, the decidedly not embarrassed Kamala Harris, can just close their eyes – and their mouths – to the activities of their great friend Governor “Randy Andy” Cuomo.
Pathetic.
