Please stop trying to make Joe Biden a PHONY!

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18. They didn't "want" to testify. Who would "want" to testify? But they were WILLING to testify

and they expected to testify, and they were sitting in a hotel room, waiting to be called to testify.

And not just one witness -- multiple witnesses. In addition to Hardnett and Wright, there were two women who Wright had confided in at the time she was being harassed.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-thomas-accuser-sukari-hardnett-hopes-biden-learned-from-his-mistake?ref=home

“As human beings, we all make mistakes,” Sukari Hardnett, who in 1991 submitted a sworn affidavit to the Senate Judiciary Committee testifying that she had been subject to Thomas’ “unpleasant” attention, told The Daily Beast. “But what’s critical is that we learn from those mistakes.”

SNIP

In 1991, Hardnett was prepared to testify in support of Professor Anita Hill, who like Hardnett was a former employee of Thomas’ during his time as chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Hill, whose tenure at the EEOC did not overlap with Hardnett’s, had accused Thomas of sexual harassment, including detailing “acts he had seen in pornographic films,” and graphically telling Hill about “his own sexual prowess.”

Biden, then chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, oversaw the confirmation hearings, which were marked by befuddlement over the issue of workplace sexual misconduct by the all-male committee members, as well as sexist attacks against Hill from Republican senators who accused her of “flat-out perjury” and suggested that her testimony was the “product of fantasy” derived from the film The Exorcist.

Hardnett, of course, wasn’t there. Biden had blocked her and Angela Wright, another woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment, from testifying before the committee in support of Hill. Biden’s decision was a symptom of the time, Hardnett allowed, but wrong nonetheless.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/10/09/the-other-woman/ca495db5-5a09-4397-8620-fd443751c8e2/?utm_term=.872abccb40b6

She did not testify because she was not called to testify. Contrary to their public statements, no one in power really wanted her to testify. That is what Angela Wright recalls.

AND FROM WRIGHT’S ATTORNEY (same link):

"If anybody told you she wanted out," he says, "they weren't sitting there with Angela Wright like I was for three days." He says there was "absolutely, positively" no talk of prime-time testimony. He says she never asked for the subpoena to be lifted.

Biden said he understood that Anita Hill's supporters also wanted Wright's subpoena lifted because they feared she would undercut Hill's stellar performance.

But one of Hill's lawyers, Charles Ogletree, says he doesn't know who those supporters could be, and if the implication is that any of Hill's team didn't want Wright called, that is "absolutely, unequivocally, categorically and positively false." He adds that whatever "backdoor maneuver" might have been used to shut out Angela Wright's "highly relevant" testimony was "shameful."