Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden has been accused of sexual assault by one of his former Senate staff assistants. According to the alleged victim, Biden forcibly penetrated her against her will with his fingers in Washington, D.C. in 1993. "I remember the assault itself, and then the aftermath, and the reverberating effects of that," Tara Reade said during an appearance on Rising with Krystal and Saagar on Hill TV Thursday. Reade said that "there are spots" where her she doesn't remember certain aspects of the alleged incident because she has "worked so hard not to remember it anymore." A year ago, Reade-who supported the campaigns of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)-attempted to come forward with stories of sexual harassment in Biden's offices. As detailed in an Intercept piece, she reached out to Time's Up, a project of the National Women's Law Center that provides support to alleged #MeToo victims. Time's Up declined to assist Reade; the organization's official excuse was that a feud with a national political candidate could jeopardize their status as a 501(c)(3) non-partisan group. But as The Intercept also notes: The public relations firm that works on behalf of the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund is SKDKnickerbocker, whose managing director, Anita Dunn, is the top adviser to Biden's presidential campaign. A spokesperson for Biden declined to comment. The SKDK spokesperson assigned to Time's Up referred questions back to the NWLC.
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