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April 27, 2020

"Larry King Live" Tape from 1993 Supports Tara Reade's Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden
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New evidence has surfaced that may help corroborate a claim by a former
staffer of Joe Biden who says he sexually assaulted her in 1993. Tara
Reade publicly accused Biden just last month but says she first told her
mother and a few others about the incident shortly after it happened.
Over the weekend, archival video emerged of Reade's mother anonymously
calling into Larry King's show on CNN in 1993 and making a reference to
what happened to her daughter.

Jeanette Altimus: "Hello. I'm wondering what a staffer would do, besides
go to the press in Washington. My daughter has just left there, after
working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her
problems at all. And the only thing she could have done was go to the
press, and she chose not to do it, out of respect for him."

Larry King: "Or she had a story to tell, but out of respect for the
person she worked for, she didn't tell it."

Jeanette Altimus: "That's true."

Tara Reade has confirmed the voice of the caller was her mother, who
died in 2016. Joe Biden's campaign has denied Reade's sexual assault
claim, calling her allegation untrue.


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