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at the top. This episode does describe an incident of sexual assault.

I heard that you have this file you keep of hate mail you've gotten over the last year or so.

Is that true? Yes. Lucy Flores knows what it means to accuse a powerful man of hurting you.

She knows what you can lose. It gets filled almost

luckily not daily but it was daily. What's in there? It's a lot of hate. It's a lot of vitriol.

It's a lot of cruelty and a couple that are scary. So I keep all of those because you just

frankly never know when something terrible could potentially happen to you and you want there to

be a record. Last spring before Joe Biden was officially even running for president.

Lucy Flores accused him of making her uncomfortable in such a peculiar way that it seemed

hard to have made up. The story goes like this.

Lucy had been running for a lieutenant governor of Nevada. Biden had agreed to stump with her.

This was back in 2014. Lucy says they were getting ready to step out on stage together.

They were all blinded up listening for their cues. We were all waiting to be called

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