Trump: I hope sexual assault allegation against Biden is 'false'
Source: Politico
President Donald Trump said Friday he hopes the sexual assault allegation lodged against former Vice President Joe Biden by a former Senate staffer is a "false accusation," apparently expressing sympathy for his presumptive Democratic general election opponent.
"I don't know if it's false or not," Trump told "Fox & Friends" of the charges leveled by Tara Reade, who worked in Biden's office when he served as a U.S. senator from Delaware.
"I mean, Joe is going to have to be able to prove whatever he has to prove, or she has to prove it, but that's a battle he has to fight," the president continued. "I've had many false accusations made, I can tell you that. Many. And maybe it is a false accusation. Frankly, I hope it is for his sake."
Reade has claimed Biden assaulted her in a Senate hallway in 1993, and elaborated upon her account in an interview Thursday with journalist Megyn Kelly. Biden categorically denied the allegations last Friday, and called for the National Archives to locate a complaint Reade says she filed with a Capitol personnel office at the time -- a search which has thus far proved inconclusive.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/08/trump-hopes-biden-sexual-assault-allegation-false-244231
This did not take long for the Trump campaign to go all-in on the false allegations against Biden. It is sort of like Trump's efforts to extort the Ukraine into launching an investigation into Hunter Biden. The goal of these effort to create false equivalence even if the allegation is complete BS.
The goal is not so much to get these charges to stick, but to try to nullify the fact that over 20 women have accused Trump of sexual assault. This number does not even include the various affairs that Trump has covered up with NDAs such as the infamous Stormy Daniels affair that lead to the incarceration of Michael Cohen.
Sadly, this effort was helped by folks on the pro-Trump "left" like Briahna Joy Gray who once again helped legitimize Trump's attacks on Democrats in an effort to make Democrats unelectedable.
The key is to recognize this for what it is and do not play. Do not even talk about Tara Reade until Trump responds to the allegations othe 20 women who have accused him. Lets have Trump release all the women who have signed NDA agreements with him while we are at it. Do not buy into the false equivalence. If Trump ran against President Obama, they would have run stories featuring Larry Sinclair.
https://time.com/5826469/2020-false-equivalence-election/
[div class"excerpt"]Why 2020 Could Be Another False Equivalence Election
President Donald Trump has an uncanny ability to project his own weaknesses onto his opponent: He's rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off him and sticks to you. It's a strategy that worked remarkably well against Hillary Clinton. He nicknamed her "Crooked Hillary" while his campaign was under federal investigation for ties to Russia. He reignited the debate over her husband's sexual misconduct after multiple women came forward to accuse Trump of sexual assault, which he denies. He even accused Clinton of fomenting the 'birther' conspiracy theory about Barack Obama. Reminder: it was Trump who did that.
This week, Donald Trump Jr. wrote an op-ed arguing that "Joe Biden is the Hillary Clinton retread of 2020," suggesting that the campaign plans to repeat the 2016 playbook. Trump is already trying to be the rubber in the 2020 campaign. The question is whether Biden will be the glue.
Some Republicans believe Trump's strategy will work because, they say, Biden is already vulnerable to it. Where Democrats have spent years arguing that Trump is a sexual predator who is beholden to foreign powers and mentally unfit for the Presidency, the Trump campaign is gearing up to make the exact same arguments about Joe Biden. "While Biden is a consensus candidate, the same arguments that can be made about Trump can kind of be turned around," says Republican strategist Tyler Brown. Which can work as "long as they have one sliver to say, 'Here's that case everyone's heard of.'"
Biden's defenders reject the idea that there are any slivers of truth to begin with, and point out that many of Trump's attacks on Biden have been widely dismissed by fact checkers. They say Trump's tactics reflect political weakness and the fact that Biden is gaining ground on Trump in some key battleground states. And the Biden campaign is on high alert for false equivalence in the media, which Democrats say helped Trump's attacks against stick to Clinton in 2016.
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Don't give it legs. It's all the same spaghetti they threw at the wall to hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Timing. Timing. Timing. Too coincidental.
Better luck next time, fools! 
Not trying to be snarky, Tom, but do we really need to see this? This is stuff that belongs on (not so)Breitbart, and FOX. I hate to see stuff like this posted here. 
