Echoing what Bruce Bartlett wrote on FaceBook…
I don’t know the truth of the Tara Reade story, but I think we can all agree that Joe Biden has handled it very badly. This bodes ill for his ability to deflect or respond to the inevitable smears that Republicans will throw at him.
That said I do tend to think that Tara Reade’s story just doesn’t hold up for me and aI agree with this assessment…
Why I’m skeptical about Reade’s sexual assault claim against Biden: Ex-prosecutor
During 28 years as a state and federal prosecutor, I prosecuted a lot of sexual assault cases. The vast majority came early in my career, when I was a young attorney at a prosecutor’s office outside Detroit.