I don't get the rhetoric that it's impossible to have him step down. This should be the most possible thing that you can do in a democracy. Call and email your representatives and tell them that you support Biden stepping down and you want them to do the same.
Shit, email the DNC itself and tell them that this isn't acceptable. This is supposed to be our party. The dude isn't even the official nominee yet. Not only is it possible, it needs to be done immediately.
I think the reason why that's not gaining traction is because its her word against his.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but she in her initial allegations in April 2019 mentioned inappropriate touching of the shoulders and hair, but denied sexual contact. Late last month, she said that he also touched her underneath her clothes. Earlier this month, her brother, when asked by the NYT, did say that she had told him about the touching of the shoulders and hair, but her brother said nothing of the contact under the clothes until a second, follow up interview by the washington post.
Neither Reade nor her brother mentioned the contact underneath the clothes in their initial accounts, just hair/shoulder contactt, which is consistent with other womens' complaints. The two friends who corroborated weren't apparently aware of the specifics, just that there was "inapporpriate/uncomfortable contact."
Investigators in the political machines, and media investigators, many of whom are probably ex leos specializing in these kinds of assaults, probably understand an accuser holding back on the details about the contact underneath the clothes (due to trauma,) focusing instead on the hair/sshoulders but when the only corroborating witness, her brother, recalls only the details on the hair/shoulders at first, that makes them wonder if some of this could be a false memory.
At least, that's what a family friend (former hennepin county sheriff) told me. "Psychological trauma is always the hardest to investigate, and the further removed from the incident, the more difficult it becomes. The mind likes to both blur details together for preservation and protect itself from trauma as a defense mechanism."
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