the other specific allegation against biden,............. OOOOPS
On May 1st, the web site Law & Crime reported that a New Jersey woman, Eva Murry, had come forward on Facebook with a story of being sexually harassed by Biden in 2008 as a 14-year-old. Murry said that she met Biden while attending the First State Gridiron Dinner & Show—an annual Delaware event for politicians, journalists, and business figures—with her aunt Christine O’Donnell, a conservative Republican who’d made a quixotic run against Biden that year. According to Murry, the senator asked how old she was and then remarked that she was very “well-endowed” for her age. Law & Crime also reported that Murry’s sister and five friends had confirmed she told them about the incident soon after it happened.
And then the story imploded when it was just a few hours old. The dinner organizers unequivocally stated that Biden did not attend the event that year, but had sent a video instead. Moreover, news stories from that period showed he had just undergone surgery for a deviated septum and was still in recovery when the dinner took place. O’Donnell tried to salvage the story by claiming the incident might have happened in 2007 or 2009, even though Murry’s original Facebook post was quite specific about the date. (It turned out that Biden also had a rock-solid alibi for 2007 and likely wasn’t at the 2009 event, when he was already vice president.)
Did Murry lie to her friends years ago in an attempt to smear her aunt’s opponent, or did she invent the story this year? Did her friends lie to back her up? Did their conversations nudge them toward recalling something that didn’t happen? It’s impossible to tell. But this brief episode should serve as a disturbing reminder that false accusations do happen—and that contemporaneous statements to other people should not necessarily be treated as corroboration.
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https://quillette.com/2020/05/14/tar...-believewomen/