Let's hope he jumps right on it and gets it done! Hakeem Jeffries, House Dems' new leader, said Tara Reade's Biden accusation should be 'investigated seriously' | Fox News House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, who was elected Wednesday by House Democrats to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said during the 2020 presidential election that Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against President Biden "needs to be investigated seriously." Jeffries made headlines in April 2020 after he broke with his party to lend credibility to the claims made by Reade, a former Biden staffer who accused Biden of cornering her in a Senate office building in 1993 and sexually assaulting her. Multiple people have corroborated parts of Reade’s story since she first spoke out on March 25, 2020, but Biden and his campaign vehemently denied the claims. "It’s got to be taken seriously because this is a serious allegation raised by a serious individual and needs to be investigated seriously. We’ve probably got to hear from him [Biden] at some point directly," Jeffries told WNYC at the time.
It is part of a cluster of events to knock Biden out. Another was their moving Pelosi out - oh, excuse, her choice, poor Paul blah, blah, blah. Moving Pelosi out gives the progressives in the House more room to navigate and plot. And another is the increasing number of media outlets (now includes CNN, Washington Post, the New York Times, Facebook) that have suddenly decided that Hunter's laptop is authentic and not Russian disinformation (had to wait for the election to blow over first).