Joe Biden on Friday denied sexual assault allegations from former staffer Tara Reade in his first public comments on the issue.
“I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago. They aren't true. This never happened,” Biden said in a statement. Biden added that if Reade filed a complaint with his office at the time, his personal archives at the University of Delaware, which the Board of Trustees is refusing to open, would not contain files of that nature.
“There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be: the National Archives,” Biden said. “If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.”
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