Thread by @JillPiggott

In 2009, #TaraReade published 2 contradictory accounts of traveling to DC to begin working in the Senate: #1> "I was beyond excited, I packed up my Nissan and cats, told my boyfriend goodbye and headed alone on the cross country drive to Washington D.C." medium.com/@AlexandraTara…

#2> “'As the plane descended into Washington, D.C., my Siamese cat, Cleo, meowed loudly from under my seat.' She recalled the city lights reflecting in the airplane’s windows as 'my new job as a Senate staffer lay ahead of me'" (#Reade in "The WIP," qtd by @nytimes).

.@nytimes describes #TaraReade's account of the plane descending in DC as "sharply, dramatically precise," apparently not knowing that Tara Reade herself (that same year) had described packing her (plural) cats into her Nissan & arriving in DC after a solo cross-country drive.

NYT interviewed 100 people who knew or know #TaraReade & found the only 2 people she put forward as contemporaneous corroborating witnesses "initially offered accounts of harassment, not assault." nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/…

From '93 to mid-Jan '20, #Reade said she was harassed while working for #Biden. Neither record from the 90s identifies Biden as the person who harassed her. In fact, Reade's mother told Larry King that Reade didn't go to the press w/ her complaint "out of respect for him."

NYT misses evidence on #Reade's Twitter feed. 1/20-23, she tweets 100s of times, looking for a reporter to cover her harassment allegation. By 3/3, she & Ryan Grim (both Sanders supporters) are warning #Biden: "Tic toc." 3/24 she does the podcast, he falsely accuses Time's UP.

In 2019, #Reade told NV paper "she didn't feel sexualized" by #Biden. Her Jan '20 tweets are consistent w/ her earlier allegation of harassment. What happens in the next 5 weeks? Reade's Twitter feed shows her increasingly worried #Bernie will lose the nomination.

When did @RyanGrim & @TheIntercept learn #Reade lied under oath about her credentials to be an "expert" witness & thereby threw into doubt more than 20 California verdicts?

upolitics.com/news/biden-acc…

Grim confirmed contacting Reade in early March, "but said he didn't have time to substantiate her allegations, so he instead focused his story on the advocacy group Time's Up."

@TheIntercept fueled a story this serious & didn't try to "substantiate" it? ctpost.com/news/article/I…

WashPost asked @RyanGrim whether, "given all the discrediting information," he believes #TaraReade. Grim refused to answer. Instead he said the disqualifying info doesn't disqualify Reade from making her allegations publicly," a point no one disputes.

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