Just so you know how survivors are treated: #TaraReade has had her real social security number, fake websites & fake social media accounts & real photos, addresses & numbers of her family members posted. She's received death threats, she's been falsely accused of being a Trump...
supporter and of not supporting Blasey Ford, whom she's always believed. Newspapers have used photos she didn't want them to use, misquoted & misrepresented her. As someone who interviewed her, it would be nice if someone else could run interference for her but unfortunately...
when you're taking on 1 of the top 5 most powerful men in the world & you don't have the $ for a PR team & people would be happy to donate so you could hire one but you can't accept that because then people will accuse you of being gold digger, you don't have a lot of options...
Some people are responding to this by saying, "she's not a survivor" bc they don't believe her. Even if you don't believe her, you need to do some real soul-searching if you think that it's appropriate to put her and her family at risk. And, perhaps most importantly, Tara...
said in her interview with me that she did NOT include the sexual assault in the complaint. She didn't feel ready to make that claim publicly yet. And anyone who believes it's weird to come out with some but not all of your allegations at once doesn't know anything about this...
subject. Also, sharing the rape apologia written by Michael Stern, which I still can't believe @USATODAY hasn't taken down or apologized for, should check out his other piece called "Living among other people means accepting some unwanted touching — and Joe Biden" 
