Reade has given four different reasons she left DC in her own online writings:
1. Her boyfriend and future husband asked her to come with him when he was offered a job in the Midwest. (This was an article about her husband's domestic abuse).And then in the Kelly interview she implied that she was fired after she filled out an intake form complaining about sexual harassment. But Reade told the Associated Press last year: "They have this counseling office or something, and I think I walked in there once, but then I chickened out." Another missed opportunity for Kelly to engage in some real journalism.
2. She was pressured to resign by senior staff who harassed her after they said Biden wanted her to serve drinks and she refused (Biden never asked her directly).
3. She left because of U.S. imperialism and xenophobia (the Russia article).
4. And in a tweet, she said Biden himself fired her.
Senate sources later admitted that if Reade's claims to the AP were true, then Biden's office would not have been notified of any complaint against him, and the process would end
But it now seems that the real reason for Reade's departure from the Senate has coming to light. Twitter users (before the Kelly interview, another botched opportunity) had searched through public records and discovered that Reade had been charged with check fraud right about the time she left the Biden office. So it's looking more and more like she was forced to resign in lieu of termination.
In the interview, Reade also claimed to have reached out to the Kamala Harris campaign to get her story out. A senior advisor to Kamala Harris later said that there is “no record of any request from a Tara Reade or an Alexandra Tara Reade," adding that they would take a request of that sort very seriously.
I'm with Bill Maher:
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