EXCLUSIVE — Tara Reade, who came forward with a sexual assault accusation against Joe Biden during the 2020 election cycle, said her experience with The New York Times mirrors that of a woman who alleged abusive behavior in a Times report Thursday against Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner."This is all what I went through ...This is all my same experience," Reade told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday.Lyndsey Fifield, an ex-girlfriend of Platner's who spoke to the Times about her relationship with the candidate, took to X on Friday to call out The Times for the story it ran and what she claimed it did and did not include. "After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?" Fifield wrote.
"Why does it say 'nobody could corroborate' when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?"GRAHAM PLATNER ACCUSER HITS NYT FOR ALLEGEDLY SOFTENING ALLEGATIONS, SAYS COVERAGE WAS 'GIFT' TO DEMOCRATMaine Democratic U.S.Senate candidate Graham Platner was accused of abusive behavior by ex-girlfriend Lyndsey Fifield.
(Sofia Aldinio/Bloomberg)Reade called it "déjà vu" after she came forward in 2020 with an accusation that Biden had once digitally penetrated her when she was a staffer in his Senate office in 1993.Reade had previously accused Biden of unwanted touching but later made her more serious charge. "I told multiple family members and friends about what Biden did to me through the years.
They downplayed that or left it out.When my friends would give direct quotes, they wouldn't put it in the story," Reade said.New York Times reporter Lisa Lerer, one of the two journalists who authored the Platner story, led the paper's coverage of Reade when she came forward with her assault claim in the spring of 2020.Biden flat...