WASHINGTON — President Trump suggested Joe Biden to “combat” sexual assault allegations from Tara Reade in a brand new interview Friday — however acknowledged he discovered the accuser’s story “compelling.”
Talking simply hours after the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee went on the file to disclaim Reade’s expenses that he assaulted her in 1993, the president provided his recommendation on the Dan Bongino Present — claiming he himself had been a sufferer of “nonsense false accusations.”
“It’s his drawback, however I wish to get in entrance of it and I simply deny it. If it’s not true, you deny it,” Trump stated in an interview with the conservative radio host when requested if Biden ought to launch information which can comprise extra particulars on the alleged incident.
“I might simply say to Joe Biden: Simply exit and combat it,” the president continued, suggesting he was even “sticking up for” his political opponent.
Trump — who himself has been accused up to now of sexual misconduct by greater than 20 girls, denying every declare — stated he had been maintaining with the fees from Reade, a former Senate staffer who claims Biden pinned her towards a wall, put his hand below her skirt and assaulted her when she labored for him in 1993.
“I watched Tara and he or she appears very credible. The mom was very credible,” he stated, referring to a video which emerged this week allegedly exhibiting Reade’s now-deceased mom calling into Larry King Stay concerning the assault.
The president informed Bongino he was livid that Democrats steadfastly backed Christine Blasey Ford, Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser, throughout his 2018 affirmation hearings.
“She’s way more convincing than Blasey Ford,” he stated of Reade. “What they did to that household and that man is a shame” he added of the Supreme Courtroom justice.
White Home press secretary Kayleigh McEnany echoed Trump’s feedback in her first ever press briefing on Friday afternoon when requested to make clear his remarks on Bongino’s present.
“I believe it was an excellent miscarriage of justice what occurred with Justice Brett Kavanaugh,” McEnany stated.
“That was a humiliation for the Democratic Social gathering to have dragged the identify of a really respectable man by the mud like that. So I’ll go away it at that.”