President Trump said Friday that a woman who has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexual assault has “far more credibility” than claims made against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Trump said he found Biden’s accuser, Tara Reade, “very credible” during an interview on the “Dan Bongino Show” on Friday. He also offered some advice to Biden, urging him to fight the allegations if they are untrue.
Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, forcefully denied the allegations in a public statement and subsequent interview on MSNBC Friday morning.
“They aren’t true,” Biden said. “This never happened.”
Trump repeatedly compared Reade’s allegations to those made against Kavanaugh, Trump’s nominee to the high court who went through a contentious confirmation process in 2018 as senators examined sexual assault claims made against him by Christine Blasey Ford and other women.
“There’s never been, Dan, a case so vicious as that,” Trump said Friday. “He was total guilty according to these very dishonest people, they’re Democrats in all cases.”
Trump called Kavanaugh an “innocent man” and decried the “double standard” applied to the allegations made against him versus those against Biden.
“I look at the double standard,” Trump said. “You look at Biden and nobody even wants to bring up the subject.”
Trump recommended that Biden deny the accusations if they are untrue, saying he had also been the victim of false accusations. Trump has been accused by multiple women of misconduct ranging from unwanted kissing to rape.
“It’s his problem and I like to get in front of it and I just deny it. If it’s not true you deny it,” Trump said Friday. “I’ve been a total victim of this nonsense, false accusations.”
Reade, who managed the intern program for Biden’s Senate office in 1993, recently claimed that Biden sexually assaulted her at the time on Capitol Hill. She had previously claimed he inappropriately touched her.
Biden on MSNBC vehemently denied the allegations and described what he called “inconsistencies” in Reade’s account.