{"id":176624,"date":"2020-05-02T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/02\/equal-time\/"},"modified":"2020-05-02T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T00:26:00","slug":"equal-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/02\/equal-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/may\/01\/joe-biden-denies-sexual-assault-allegation-tara-reade-statement\">denied the sexual assault allegations made against him by Tara Reade<\/a> on <i>Morning Joe<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a> has categorically denied allegations from a former Senate aide that he sexually assaulted her in 1993. <\/p>\n<p>The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee\u2019s first public comment on the allegation came at a delicate moment for his campaign. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI recognize my responsibility to be a voice, an advocate, and a leader for the change in culture that has begun but is nowhere near finished,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@JoeBiden\/statement-by-vice-president-joe-biden-7a9593bd3012\">wrote in a Medium post on Friday morning<\/a>. \u201cSo I want to address allegations by a former staffer that I engaged in misconduct 27 years ago. They aren\u2019t true. This never happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>Where it goes from here, I have absolutely no idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has denied the sexual assault allegations made against him by Tara Reade on Morning Joe. Joe Biden has categorically denied allegations from a former Senate aide that he sexually assaulted her in 1993. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee\u2019s first public comment on the allegation came at a delicate moment for his campaign. \u201cI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[594,374,405,448],"class_list":["post-176624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-joe-biden","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}