A month ago, based on the U.S. President’s hints and the political biography of his main campaign opponent, Joe Biden, we predicted that relatively soon the latter would be thrown into an infofield by a dirtbag associated with inappropriate behavior against the weaker sex.
Let’s recall our April discussion: Trump, after Sanders left the race, took the opportunity to report some additional dirt on Joe Biden, and the dirt is so terrible that it is he who allegedly explains Barack Obama’s (who had Biden as vice president) unwillingness to support the latter in the election. <…> If Trump is not bluffing, and if the numerous rumors about Joe Biden’s specific – not always in line with public morality – behavior are correct, then his triumph in the fall elections may simply not take place, and instead the whole world will once again freeze in terror and disgust at what people are at the very top of the American power pyramid.
Reality in a sense was brighter than the most daring predictions. Indeed, Biden has been charged – not with banal harraschement (in the era of the MeToo movement in the U.S., any reckless word, gaze, or clumsy gesture could be considered such), but with physical acts that could rather be classified as actual rape. And what Senator Biden has done is not somewhere, but right in the holy saints of American democracy, the building of the Washington Capitol.
Under normal circumstances, one would expect the democratic press to first ignore any such accusations and then, as a last resort, to discredit the alleged victim of sexual violence by a Democratic Party candidate. That was the initial reaction. A patchwork of additional facts and circumstantial evidence began to form around the accusations, which gave the American public the impression that even the bastion of the anti-Trampa media, The New York Times, had to pay close attention to all of this and demand that Joe Biden’s staff not only explain himself to the voters (instead of merely denying the problem), but also contribute in every way possible to the investigation that the journalists of the country’s main liberal publication believe should be conducted against him. We can see what the democratic establishment is going through. All this is taking place at a very bad time. And the main fighter for women’s rights, minorities and social justice in this history looks very bad.
The New York Times summarises the incident in its call for a total investigation:
“We need to investigate Tara Reed’s allegations. Americans deserve to know more about the allegations of sexual violence against the Democratic Party’s (presidential) candidate. Ms. Reed’s accusations, which have been leaking for several weeks, are serious and expressive. She claims that in the spring of 1993, Mr. Biden drove her into an abandoned corridor in the Capitol, pressed her against the wall, climbed under her skirt and broke into her fingers. Ms Reed’s brother and several friends reported that she had told them about the incident shortly after it had occurred. Some evidence supports what she said, while others are sceptical”.
The most interesting thing in this story is that the alleged victim of the attack by (younger and more active than now) Joe Biden, an employee of his own administrative apparatus, Tara Reed, wrote a complaint against him to the relevant Senate committee in 1993. The entire archive of Senate documents from that period of the former vice president’s political career (which should contain files on the complaint and at least some mention of why the senator was not punished) is now in storage at the University of Delaware. And the representatives of this university, who are very sympathetic to the Democratic Party, have already stated that they are not going to introduce the contents of this archive to the general public. And this can be taken as an indirect proof that there are really dangerous documents in the archive.
It should be noted that mass rape and harassment is a kind of American parliamentarian tradition, so widespread that U.S. lawmakers have a special, absolutely official budget fund – from taxpayers’ money – to pay for claims from the victims. It is a kind of umbrella fund through which senators and congressmen pay not only compensation for rape and harassment, but also for discrimination and other violations related to the work of lawmakers. In nearly two decades of operation, the fund has paid victims approximately $17 million. But it is worth noting that all such hearings are held in camera, and the condition for obtaining budgetary compensation for victims is that they agree to waive any other claims and never publicly disclose who did what to them.
It is only sometimes that the names of those for whom American taxpayers have paid for their liberties are made public, but this is an exception rather than a rule. For example, in 2017, journalists learned that the victim had received $84,000 in state compensation for the inappropriate actions of a Republican senator, and that the victim had been forced to leave his post.
It should be noted that even the scandals related to the MeToo movement could not lead to the liquidation of this state fund: the senators only decided that now they will pay part of the compensation from their own pockets.
In this context, given the reputation of Biden, who is a prominent representative of U.S. lawmakers and has spent decades in the higher echelons of Washington power, a possible scenario is that Trump’s headquarters will be throwing in more and more scandals of this kind in the information field, with the aim that by the time of the fall debate his opponent has already developed a reputation that makes it obscene to vote for him. Although, of course, this will not stop many Democrats.
And another side effect, curious for us. After such scandals, especially if they become serial, the U.S. and pro-American forces in other countries will have certain difficulties in promoting the image of the United States as a perfect standard of equality and struggle for women’s rights, and American criticism of other countries will look at least deeply hypocritical.
Ivan Danilov, RIA