On Tara Reade’s Allegations.

Last year the woman corroborated Reade's claim that Biden had touched her neck and shoulders but said it wasn't sexual, which is also what Reade said at the time. When Reade claimed assault this past March, the friend corroborated that, too, and said she had kept Reade's confidences because "it just wasn't my place." In an interview with Rich McHugh of Business Insider, LaCasse said Reade told her about the assault in 1995 or '96 but admitted she had forgotten about it until Reade reminded her. Manne took my colleague Joan Walsh to task for writing in a recent opinion piece that there is "no evidence" that Biden sexually assaulted Reade. [Extracted from the article]