Journalist Megyn Kelly speculated that Tara Reade’s refusal to take a polygraph test could be a sign that she’s not being truthful in her allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden.
Kelly, who recently landed Reade’s first televised interview since Biden addressed her allegations of sexual harassment and assault, shared some of her thoughts on Reade’s veracity in an interview with Sinclair host Eric Bolling.
“There has to be something wrong with Tara Reade if she’s made this up,” Kelly said. “My own belief is that she has very good evidence she did tell at least two people about the alleged assault at or around the time that it happened … I think there’s a very strong case.”
Reade has accused Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for November’s election, of sexually harassing and assaulting her in his Senate office in the early 1990s. Biden has vehemently denied the allegations.
Kelly called one of the people who corroborated Reade’s story “very credible” and said that she thinks there’s “a very strong case” that Reade told her friend “all these same details 30 years ago.” Kelly also noted that this doesn’t necessarily mean it happened, rather that she simply told her friend that it did.
Bolling then brought up Reade’s refusal to take a polygraph. Reade said she would “absolutely” be willing to go under oath, but when asked if she would submit to a polygraph test said, “I’m not a criminal. Joe Biden should take the polygraph.”
Kelly said Biden’s defenders could point to that answer as “evidence, potentially, of deception.” Then, as she continued explaining her point, Kelly said that it “can be a sign of deception,” although she argued that it was not necessarily the case.
