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Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Tara Reade gets Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Ryan Knight

News

3.4880 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Knight chats with survivor Tara Reade about her brave journey to come forward and speak her truth.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Amped Up.

0:11.2

This is your host, Ryan Knight, and our guest today is Tara Reid.

0:16.0

Tara is a former intern for Leon Panetta and a former Senate aide for Joe Biden.

0:22.8

She is a survivor, an animal rights activist, a writer, and a poet Tara.

0:28.1

Welcome to Amped Up.

0:29.8

Oh, thank you for having me, Ryan.

0:32.1

Yeah, you know, I'm so glad you could come on.

0:35.1

I know we've been kind of talking about getting you on the show for a while now, so I'm grateful that you're here today to talk openly and honestly and have a

0:43.7

chance to tell your story, because I've read some of the media articles and seen how kind of your

0:50.4

story has been portrayed in the media, and it's quite upsetting. So I'm glad that we have this opportunity.

0:57.3

I want to start off, you know, you have had multiple people corroborate your sexual assault

1:02.9

allegation against Vice President Joe Biden, including a court document where your ex-husband

1:09.2

confirms it and there is even a video that surfaced a few months back of your mom calling into Larry King Live in 1993, saying that her daughter had experienced serious problems working for a quote-unquote prominent senator.

1:25.8

Your brother, as well as a friend, have also come forward to verify that you told them of the

1:31.4

assault.

1:33.2

And yet, despite all of this cooperation, the Democratic Party, the party that has claimed

1:40.4

over and over again that it believes women went from believing woman to shaming, harassing,

1:48.0

and doxing a woman like you when you speak the truth about one of their own. Are the Democratic Party

1:54.3

hypocrites? And have they damaged the Me Too movement and made it less safe for survivors to come

1:59.7

forward?

2:10.2

Well, the first part is, yes, I think that the Democratic Party has really damaged Me Too with their handling of me coming forward.

2:14.1

But it's not the first time.

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