--- title: Joe Biden Denies Sexually Assaulting Tara Reade description: A former Senate staffer alleges Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 canonical: https://time.com/5830688/joe-biden-denies-sexual-assault-allegation/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-05-01T12:02:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T18:30:41.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Joe Biden Denies Sexually Assaulting Tara Reade og:description: A former Senate staffer alleges Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 og:url: https://time.com/5830688/joe-biden-denies-sexual-assault-allegation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2fc8e9389a79d1e2/698a0d97929fad6585bf610e/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Speaks On White Nationalism In Iowa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joe Biden Denies Sexually Assaulting Tara Reade twitter:description: A former Senate staffer alleges Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2fc8e9389a79d1e2/698a0d97929fad6585bf610e/joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegation.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'This Never Happened.' 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Tom Brenner—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 12, 2023 6:30 PM UTCPublished: May 1, 2020 12:02 PM UTC Joe Biden denied an allegation by former Senate staffer, Tara Reade, that he sexually assaulted her in a Capitol Hill building in 1993 on Friday, in his first public acknowledgment of the charge. “I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago,” the former vice president and current Democratic presidential candidate said in a [statement](https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/statement-by-vice-president-joe-biden-7a9593bd3012) published Friday morning on Medium. “They aren’t true. This never happened,” Biden said of the allegations. In the statement, Biden called on the National Archives, which he said would have a record of any complaints made by Reade on the allegation, to look for and release any documents she filed. “If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there,” he said. Biden reiterated his denial of the allegation during an appearance on MSNBC’s _Morning Joe_ shortly after the statement was released on Friday. “No. It is not true. I’m saying unequivocally, it never happened,” he said. Biden said he wasn’t questioning Reade’s motive but that he was confused about why she brought up the accusation. “I don’t know why she’s saying this. I don’t know why after 27 years all of a sudden this gets raised,” he said. “I don’t understand it.” Biden addressed the allegation amid mounting pressure from some Democrats who have pushed him to [respond](https://time.com/5826469/2020-false-equivalence-election/) to Reade’s accusation. Reade’s story regained attention over the past week after two of her acquaintances said she had [shared](https://www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4) details of her allegation with them. Biden’s campaign has previously denied Reade’s accusation. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5830688/joe-biden-denies-sexual-assault-allegation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5830688/joe-biden-denies-sexual-assault-allegation/"},"headline":"'This Never Happened.' 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