 So as many of you know, several women came forward last year with allegations against Joe Biden and these allegations Claim that he touched them inappropriately Now the things that these women individuals like Lucy Flores alleged were that he you know without their consent Smelled their hair kissed their heads, you know things of that nature And he apologized and then the media after defending him moved on however Now we are learning about an allegation from a woman named Tara Reid That is very serious. This is the most serious allegation That has been alleged about Joe Biden and she reportedly tried to come forward at the time when other women were coming forward Although she was discouraged after being attacked and defamed and she reached out to an organization called times up Which is supposed to help me to victims and she was denied because They claim that since they are a nonprofit They can't help her against someone who's running for federal office, which is really a dubious claim to make legally speaking but the story goes a little bit deeper and Ryan Grimm released an article in the intercept that explains that there's a conflict of interest that prevented them From helping her out but before we get to that I actually want to go over her claims because these haven't been independently vetted yet Ryan Grimm didn't really talk about these claims in his article He talks more so about the aspects of times up not wanting to assist her But she did appear on Katie Halper's podcast and she described what Joe Biden allegedly did to her and This is very serious now. I Can't provide you with the evidence. I can't independently verify the claims that she's making myself so all we have right now are Her store her words her story and we have not heard at the time I'm recording this from Joe Biden or his team yet But I do think that she deserves to be heard and I think that this is important. It goes beyond politics This is about making sure that People in power men in power specifically can't use their positions of power To get their subordinates to do things that are inappropriate that they don't feel comfortable doing So I'm gonna play a little clip. This is about two minutes long from her interview with Katie Halper You can find this full video here on Katie's Twitter But she hasn't released the full interview as of yet when that does come out I'll link to it down below But here's a quick overview of what she claims Biden did to her back in the 90s when she worked for him he just said hey come here Tara, and then I I Handed him the thing and he greeted me. He remembered my name and then It we were alone and it was the strangest thing There was no like exchange really. He just had me up against the wall and I was wearing like a skirt And you know I'm back business skirt, but I wasn't wearing stockings. It was kind of a hot day that day and I was wearing heels And I remember my legs had been hurting from the marble, you know of the capital like walk And I so I remember that kind of stuff I remember like I was wearing a blouse and he just had me up against the wall and The wall was cold and I remember he it happened all at once the gym bag I don't know where it went. I handed it to him was gone, and then his hands were on me and underneath my clothes and Yeah, and then he went oh He went down my skirt, but then up inside it and he Penetrated me with his fingers and I He was kissing me at the same time and he was saying something to me He said several things and I can't remember everything He said I remember a couple of things. I remember him saying First before like as he was doing it. Do you want to go somewhere else and then him saying to me when I pulled away? he um Got finished doing what he was doing and I how I was pulled back and he said he said come on man I heard you liked me and It's that phrase stayed with me because I kept thinking What I might have said and I can't remember exactly if he said I thought or if I heard but it's like he implied Like that I had done this like I don't know and for me. It was like everything everything shattered in that moment because I knew like We were alone. It was over right? He wasn't trying to do anything more, but it's I looked up to him He was like my father's age. He was this champion of women's rights in my eyes And I couldn't believe it was happening. It didn't see it seems surreal. So as you heard from the details of this These are very serious allegations You know the inappropriate touching was one thing, but what she is describing here is full-on sexual assault So what I think needs to happen is the FBI needs to investigate this if Joe Biden, you know Wanted to be responsible. He would call for an FBI investigation But um, yeah, this is uh, this is very disturbing Now she went on to talk about how he pointed at her He put his finger in her face or something like that and said you're nothing to me because he was offended that she rejected his advance It's it's really really troubling now. I do want to get to Ryan Grimm's piece here This isn't the full story, but I'll link to that also down below What he describes here is also really disturbing because it shows that you know conflicts of interests Exist in politics and even though organizations do good at the end of the day, you know politics is politics and People in power are going to have a lot of their little Minions look out for them So Ryan Grimm writes last April terror read watched as a familiar conversation around her former boss Joe Biden and his relationship with personal space unfolded on the national stage Nevada politician Lucy Flores alleged that Biden had inappropriately sniffed her hair and kissed the back of her head As she waited to go on stage at a rally in 2014 Biden in a statement in response said that not once in his career Did he believe that he had acted inappropriately but Flores' allegation sounded accurate to read She said because Reed had experienced something very similar as a staffer in Biden's Senate office years earlier After she saw an episode of the ABC show the view in which most of the panelists stood up for Biden and attacked Flores as politically motivated Reed decided that she had no choice but to come forward and support Flores She gave an interview to a local reporter describing several instances in which Biden had behaved similarly toward her inappropriately touching her during her early 90s tenure in his Senate office in that first interview She decided to tell a piece of the story She said that matched what had happened to Flores plus she had filed a contemporaneous complaint and there were witnesses So she considered the allegation bulletproof The short article brought a wave of attention on her along with Accusations that she was doing the bidding of Russian president Vladimir Putin So Reed went quiet as the campaign went on Reed who first supported senator Elizabeth Warren and then senator Bernie Sanders began to reconsider staying silent She thought about the world she wanted her daughter to live in and decided that she wanted to continue telling her story and Push back against what she saw as online defamation to get legal help and manage what she knew from her first go-round Would be serious backlash she reached out to the organization Times Up Established in the wake of the Me Too movement to help survivors tell their stories by February She learned from a new conversation with Times Up Which also involved director Sharon Tijani that no assistance could be provided because the person she was accusing Biden was a candidate for federal office and assisting a case against him could jeopardize the organization's nonprofit status The public relations firm that works on behalf of the Times Up legal defense fund is SKD Nickerbocker who's managing director Anita Dunn is the top adviser to Biden's presidential campaign a spokesperson for Biden declined to comment The SKD case spokesperson assigned to Times Up referred questions back to the National Women's Law Center So, you know, it's it's absurd to think that they will lose their nonprofit status because First of all the whole point of the Me Too movement is to communicate to people in positions of power That they are not protected from these types of allegations Harvey Weinstein, you know politicians So if you're saying that your goal is to protect women, but you can't touch anyone who's a politician who's running for office What's the point now? Of course? This is nonsensical lawyers who Ryan Graham consulted with said No, that what they're saying is a stretch. It doesn't really make sense. What I think makes sense is that Anita Dunn She is working with Biden's campaign And they didn't want to pursue this because they knew that it could potentially hurt him politically and Tara as far as I know is a credible person her allegation is very serious And I understand her reasoning as to why she didn't want to come out First of all, she initially supported Elizabeth Warren and then moved on to Bernie Sanders So by supporting Biden's opponents his biggest opponents, she didn't want this to seem politically motivated on top of this She didn't want to single-handedly hurt Joe Biden's chances because she doesn't want Donald Trump to get reelected and on top of that Democrats attacked her by calling her a Russian asset How despicable is that? They're not being responsible and calling for an investigation They're not calling for these claims to be vetted. They smeared and defamed her. That's what they chose to do This is just despicable. Now after we just saw Christine Blasey Ford come out against Brett Kavanaugh Everyone who was in the Democratic Party said that, you know, Brett Kavanaugh If he were truly innocent would call for an investigation would actually vet these claims and they were critical of Republicans, rightfully so But now all of a sudden Crickets silence the media is ignoring this story so far Me Too activists like Alyssa Milano Defended Joe Biden last year and are saying nothing now at the time I record this video About Tara Reid's claims. These are very serious claims. This is exactly what the Me Too movement Was created for to let women know that they can actually share their story, right? If they Had someone who was in a powerful position come on to them touch them inappropriately sexually assault them They could share their story and this movement had their backs But what Democrats are doing is choosing to put politics Over morality and that's genuinely disgusting like this story beyond like the actual details It makes me lose a lot of faith in humanity because I already knew that Democrats Didn't actually care about the causes that they you know try to promote women's rights Marginalized communities. I know that they use these types of communities as props to help themselves get elected I'd seem, you know legitimate to the left But just how brazen they are at just not caring at all about a very serious allegation Because they don't want to hurt Joe Biden's chances. I mean Who cares about politics in this instance? Who cares about politics and You know, I know that as a Bernie Sanders supporter that sounds, you know rich coming from me of all people But in the event a politician that I supported Was Accused of something like this. I would expect from them what I expect from anyone else Call on the FBI to investigate and vet these claims You would want it to be looked into further if you truly are innocent now. We don't know about these details We don't necessarily know at this point in time what Joe Biden's team is saying so far they haven't responded to Ryan Grimm's article and they're kind of just trying to Sleep on this story in hopes that it will die and that you know Everyone will ignore it since we're all focused on COVID-19 But I think that Tara has a right to be heard as far as we know She seems perfectly credible. She tried to come out at a time when other women who felt, you know That they were violated by Joe Biden if he touched them kissed them We're coming out and that's reasonable, but she didn't want to deal with the backlash if you are a Normal citizen and you suddenly get a wave of attention and it's disproportionately negative. That's really really scary That's really scary like I know firsthand not because of this but like when I first was doing YouTube videos and one of the first videos I posted When semi viral because it appeared on the front page of Reddit. I actually Put that video on private so people couldn't see it because the comments that were said about me really like They kind of crushed my soul. So, you know getting attention just in general is really scary But if you're getting that kind of attention if people are calling you a Russian asset That's really scary. Especially if you're coming out and you're saying something that is really serious like this So I totally understand her reasoning. I think it's it's sound like I would I wouldn't know what to do And this is why a lot of women don't share their stories because it's incredibly scary and they have no confidence That anything will be done But I mean the me too movement the times up fund was created specifically for this purpose so women Live in an environment where they feel comfortable sharing their stories and now that it's someone that you know, they like they're like No, sorry, we're gonna leave you hanging will refer you to the women's law center, but we're not gonna help you So We again have to acknowledge that these are allegations at this point They have not been confirmed these claims have not as far as I know been vetted But we need the authorities to get involved we need the FBI to investigate this She has witnesses people she talked to at the time and shared her story with you know her brother Friends she shared the story with her mother who has since passed away Ryan Grimm talks about this in an interview with Chris a ball on the hill, but this is incredibly serious and You know people need to know about this putting aside the political ramifications We have to be consistent Because we can't just pick and choose when to take these claims seriously if it's politically expedient We have to be consistent and bet all of these claims and make sure that we hear these types of stories out Right and let the people decide if they choose to believe it or not But this is serious and action needs to be taken attention needs to be paid to this story. So you have the details You'll just have to decide but we'll wait to see if the media actually covers this And actually does a more comprehensive investigation