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“Yes, hello. I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington? My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him,” the woman caller said.

“In other words, she had a story to tell, but, out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn’t tell it?” King asked.

“That’s true,” the woman responded.

While the woman did not give her name in the episode, the Intercept reported that property records show she lived in San Luis Obispo County.

Reade identified the woman speaking as her mother, who died in 2016, and has said in numerous interviews that she discussed the alleged attack by Biden and harassment with her mother.

The caller did not, however, state that her daughter was assaulted or harassed, only that she had “problems” and “a story to tell.”

Reade, 56, alleges that Biden penetrated her with his fingers in spring 1993 and touched her hair and neck without her permission. She says she complained to several top staffers about the harassment, not the assault, and was retaliated against in part by losing supervision over office interns and being told to find a new job.

The three top staffers vehemently deny hearing about her allegations. Biden’s campaign has also denied all allegations.

Reade’s brother and two unnamed friends say they remember hearing about either the assault or harassment at the time. Two interns confirm that she was abruptly removed from supervising them.

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