Joe Biden denied he sexually assaulted a former Senate staffer and called for any relevant records to be released.
“I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said of allegations he assaulted Tara Reade, in a statement Friday morning. “They aren’t true. This never happened.”
She has said that she reported the incident to three senior staff in Biden’s office who have all denied being informed about it.
She also says she made a more formal harassment complaint to the Senate, but neither she nor the relevant Senate office has a copy.
Biden called for the National Archives to release of any record of the complaint.
“There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be — the National Archives,” he said in the statement. “The National Archives is where the records are kept at what was then called the Office of Fair Employment Practices. I am requesting that the Secretary of the Senate ask the Archives to identify any record of the complaint she alleges she filed and make available to the press any such document. If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there.”
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