Mass media need to fully investigate Biden

Joe Biden has been finally forced to go on the record and strongly deny Tara Reade’s allegations that he sexually assaulted her in 1993—but he was given an inexplicably easy ride by interviewer Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC. Brzezinski’s 20-minute interview followed shortly after a statement released by Biden claiming that the truth of Tara Reade’s allegations could be established by conducting a document search in the National Archives to find any written complaint—as Reade alleged having been made to her superiors.

Concealment of documents and destruction of documents

Concealment of documents and destruction of documents featured prominently in the FBI investigation involving Hillary Clinton and her private server. Uncovering new documents never produced in response to Freedom of Information applications is par for the course. Finding a document in an archive before believing Reade’s allegations? Breathtaking. Amazingly, Biden was not asked one question by Brzezinski about corroborating witnesses the New York Times had interviewed—nor a potentially damning Larry King video that could collaborate Reade’s account. The New York Times had published a long article on April 12—updated on April 29 Examining Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden, An enormous amount of investigative resources were undoubtedly deployed in what appeared to be a long and thorough report. Many people were interviewed. Their statements were published supporting no contemporaneous complaint had been made by Reade. A small section of the article stated:

A friend said that Ms. Reade told her about the alleged assault at the time, in 1993. A second friend recalled Ms. Reade telling her in 2008 that Mr. Biden had touched her inappropriately and that she’d had a traumatic experience while working in his office. Both friends agreed to speak to The Times on the condition of anonymity to protect the privacy of their families and their self-owned businesses. Ms. Reade said she also told her brother, who has confirmed parts of her account publicly but who did not speak to The Times, and her mother, who has since died.”

The updated article made no mention of possible additional confirmatory evidence that had emerged on April 27— archival video supposedly of Reade’s mother anonymously calling Larry King’s show on CNN in 1993 and making a reference to what happened to her daughter. Why the New York Times omitted to disclose this possibly very vital evidence in its updated report is for the NYT to explain. It is understandable that Biden chose his TV appearance to be on MSNBC—a bitter critic of President Trump for the last four years—rather than FOX News—a supporter of the President—where Biden could have expected to come under more intense and uncomfortable questioning.

The mass media’s attempt to go easy on Biden will rebound badly

Fox’s allegations of Democrat-inspired tactics to defeat Trump in the 2016 elections—and when that failed—to end Trump’s Presidency—are now beginning to hit hard. Latest revelations that the FBI—still operating under the Obama-Biden administration on January 4, 2017 —did not close off an investigation into Trump senior campaign advisor General Michael Flynn after clearing him of acting as a Russian agent during the 2016 campaign—are particularly disturbing. The mass media—notably MSNBC and the New York Times—have paid scant attention to investigating what is increasingly being uncovered by Attorney General Bill Barr as the greatest political scandal in America’s history extending over four years or more—leaving the Watergate break-in a very distant second. When President Trump continually calls the mass media “fake news”—victims such as Flynn and Reade confirm his assessment to be chillingly accurate. The mass media’s attempt to go easy on Biden will rebound badly.

David Singer——Bio and Archives

David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com