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Why the defense from former aides shouldn’t get Biden off the #MeToo hook

By Brad Polumbo
Published May 15, 2020 5:47pm ET
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Why the defense from former aides shouldn’t get Biden off the #MeToo hook
President Joe Biden signed an executive order in January imposing an indefinite pause on issuing new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, a step toward fulfilling a major campaign promise as part of his aggressive agenda to address climate change. | (Michael Dwyer/AP)

New developments keep emerging in the sexual assault allegation against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

On Friday, a sweeping PBS report appeared to bolster Biden’s denials of the charge from former aide Tara Reade, who claims he sexually assaulted her in 1993. But it shouldn’t get him off the hook. Not if we’re holding Democrats to the standard they applied to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, when a last-minute accusation threatened to derail his nomination.

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