Quote (IceMage @ May 1 2020 10:50am)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seu_C08yAAM
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https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1256239063151017989Joe should have been ready for so obvious a question, didn't seem like he was. He stuck to his script of denying anything ever happened and saying a record
wouldn't exist, but he had no explanation for why he wouldn't let a search occur
Not to mention, the obsession over whether a complaint exists seems like a red herring argument. In 1993, if a woman raised a sexual harassment complaint and got fired for it by an unethical senate office, it seems very unlikely to me they'd file a record of that complaint anyway. Why does anyone think there would be one? Has Tara Reade explicitly said she filed a formal complaint, not just 'raised it at the office and got nowhere' as it was described? It stretches credulity to figure they'd both unceremoniously fire her for speaking out against Joe, then leave a paper trail saying Joe was accused by her.
what
should exist is some kind of contemporaneous record of her firing and whatever reason or excuse they used. There should exist
some record in which they use at least an excuse, or spin of events at the time. It could be a feeble pretense, it could be a retelling of her story labeling it false, it could just be an intentionally vague description like 'personal issue'. But while we already have numerous witnesses recounting how she got abruptly fired, Joe's only defense was to point to people who didn't remember her at all, even though he acknowledges she worked there.
So a bare minimum would be getting the staff record. How can Joe pretend that there's no relevant staff records? Unless he destroyed them, I gues