Biden OKs search for any records on Reade complaint in Archives, refuses to do same for University of Delaware papers

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Friday called for a search of the National Archives for any records that might pertain to allegations made against him by former Senate aide Tara Reade — but refused to approve a similar search of his senatorial papers, which are currently stored at the University of Delaware and sealed from the public.

Reade has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993. Biden, in a statement and in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” personally denied the claim.

Noting that former Senate staffers have denied Reade complained to them, Biden said in his written statement: “There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be – the National Archives. … I am requesting that the Secretary of the Senate ask the Archives to identify any record of the complaint she alleges she filed and make available to the press any such document. If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.”

But Biden, in the interview, was pressed on his refusal to approve a similar search of a massive trove of papers from his three-plus decades in the Senate that he donated years ago to the University of Delaware. Biden maintained that the trove would not contain personnel files.

“There is nothing, they’re not there … The material in the University of Delaware has no personnel files … but it does have a lot of confidential conversations” with other officials, like the president and foreign dignitaries, Biden said.

 

 

 

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