AP Admits Not Reporting, Deleting Tara Reade 2019 Interview

AP Admits Not Reporting, Deleting Tara Reade 2019 Interview
"The Associated Press reported on Saturday it interviewed Tara Reade Friday about her allegations that former Vice President and presumptive 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in the 1990s when she was an aide in his Senate office but buried that the outlet failed to report on its interviews with Reade in 2019, when she first made public her dealings with Biden.

“The AP declined to publish details of the 2019 interviews at the time because reporters were unable to corroborate her allegations, and aspects of her story contradicted other reporting,” the report said.

The AP report claims that in the 2019 interviews — some of which the media outlet said it deleted “in keeping with the reporter’s standard practice for disposing of old interviews” — does not specifically cite sexual assault but merely that Reade was “uncomfortable” with some of Biden’s attentions, including that “Biden rubbed her shoulders and neck and played with her hair.”...

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