WaPo Finally Investigates the Biden Sexual Assault Allegation, Their Conclusion Is Almost as Bad as the NYT

FILE – In this Feb. 27, 2008 file photo, The Washington Post building in Washington is shown. The Washington Post Co. reported a 69 percent jump in third-quarter profit Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, as its newspapers trimmed their losses and its cable TV and education divisions held steady. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)

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We reported on Sunday how the New York Times finally got around to investigating the sexual assault claim against Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden.

They did come up with one interesting bit of reporting.

Add to that that they confirmed that she did tell a friend at the time it happened about the assault. She also told another friend in 2008 and told her brother over the years. All confirmed she had told them.

They also spoke to the other women who accused Biden last year of inappropriately touching them and reported several said they believed Reade.

But what was the Times’ conclusion at the end of the report? What did they tweet out when promoting the story?

They later deleted that part of their story and deleted the tweet about it, calling the language of the tweet “imprecise.” Uh huh. It was the language in their own story, that they stealth-edited out.

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Now, the WaPo has “investigated” the story as well. And their “conclusion” is almost as bad as that of the Times.

As with the Times, they spent time talking about Trump in a “whataboutism” which has nothing to do with the claim against Biden.

The former vice president has been accused of unwanted hugging and other physical contact, but The Post found no other allegations against him as serious as Reade’s. More than a dozen women, by contrast, have accused Trump of forced kissing, groping or sexual assault, and he has been recorded on audio boasting about grabbing women between their legs.

The bias was evident in the language Biden’s actions were often seemed downplayed with words such as described as “unwanted hugging,” “unwanted touching,” “displays of affection,” whereas Trump was more often described as “forced kissing, groping.”

So how much “unwanted touching” is okay? What does attacking Trump have to do with Biden’s guilt or innocence?

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Remember the Kavanaugh hearings? When any allegation, no matter how ridiculous or lacking in reality was paraded forth as truth automatically because we must believe all women? What’s changed here, New York Times and WaPo?

We’d also note something else rather interesting. The timing of both of these stories.

Why are the stories running now? Perhaps because she filed a criminal complaint against Biden on Friday.

Or is it because finally last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he would no longer be running so the way was clear to the nomination for Biden for the Democrats?

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