The Tara Reade story emerged again today, this time in a lengthy front page New York Times article :
Tara Reade’s Tumultuous Journey to the 2020 Campaign: To better understand Ms. Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, The Times interviewed nearly 100 friends, relatives, co-workers and neighbors, and reviewed court records and her writings.
.
There’s a 2016 rape lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump which is available online here. The allegations are far more believable to me than those made by Tara Reade against Joe Biden even though we know nothing about the background of the anonymous plaintiff. We certainly know a tremendous amount about the history of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden when it comes to their behaviors and attitudes about women.
Here’s an excerpt from page 4 of the lawsuit:
10. Defendant Trump initiated sexual contact with Plaintiff at four different parties. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied Plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to Plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but with no effect. Defendant Trump responded to Plaintiff’s pleas by violently striking Plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted. Exhs. A and B.
11. Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump, Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed. Exhs. A and B.
Buzzfeed reported on this in 2016:
Here’s an Courthouse News Service 2016 article about it:
Excerpt:
According to her 10-page lawsuit, Trump “initiated sexual contact” on four different occasions.
“On the fourth and final sexual encounter with defendant Trump, defendant Trump tied plaintiff to a bed, exposed himself to plaintiff, and then proceeded to forcibly rape plaintiff,” Doe says in her complaint.
Calling Trump’s actions “savage,” the woman says she asked Trump to stop but that he answered by “violently striking plaintiff in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.”
According to her complaint, Trump threatened that her family would be “physically harmed if not killed” if she ever reported the attack.
The same lawsuit makes a defamation claim over statements Trump and his attorney made respectively to RadarOnline and to Courthouse News Service.
“The allegations are not only categorically false, but disgusting at the highest level and clearly framed to solicit media attention or, perhaps, are simply politically motivated,” Trump said this past April. “There is absolutely no merit to these allegations. Period.”
Vox also reported on the story. They offer explanations as to why the lawsuit and the allegations made in it never gained significant media attention:
This was reported on again in a Newsweek article in 2019: Trump Teen Rape Allegation Resurfaces, Ronan Farrow Claims National Enquirer Tried to Protect Him in New Book.
If you look up Tara Reade in Wikipedia you are redirected to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation and get a 7408 word entry.
If you look up Jane Doe and Trump this is all you get:
- Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein (case 1:16-cv-07673-UA, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, filed September 30, 2016 and dismissed November 4), a lawsuit accusing Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of child rape for events that occurred in 1994.[a]
Why isn’t the media putting resources into investigating this totally believable allegation especially in view of the oxygen they have given to the Tara Reade story? Perhaps they tried and were unable to located Jane Doe. That makes sense. Assuming this is true, this happened when she was only 13 and hopefully she has successfully healed from the trauma. If she has paid attention to the Tara Reade story it is difficult for me to imagine how she feels when it evokes memories of what happened to her.
It is just another example of what the sexual predator Donald Trump has gotten away with.
I write this in the hopes that this story isn’t totally lost.
I appreciate this additional information. It is unfortunate that there is still a possibility that these sexual assaults occurred and that because an unscrupulous actor saw a way to make money a real victim of a heinous crime was manipulated and never received the justice she should have.