This isn’t lying on a resume. She was not applying for a job. She was proactively telling people she assisted Joe Biden in writing his signature piece of legislation, inflating and even fabricating her own importance, and had a high-ranking position at his office to ingratiate herself to them and gain financial favors…

exaggerating your resume is a far cry from saying you helped write the violence against women act.....

That is not normal behavior. If you think it is, well, I can imagine you’ve been fired from a lot of jobs. 

You do have to do a lot of mental gymnastics if your goal is to try and develop a rational framework for buttressing their accusation.

A bit less dramatic example would be to point to the UVA-Rolling Stone debacle.

don’t forget the one of her lawyers who’s a big Trump donor and former Sputnik editor.  

Disagree - in investigations credibility IS a deciding factor. That’s why attorneys are allowed to question witnesses as to their propensity for truthfulness. Her past behaviour that showcases a history of deception or lack of truth is relevant ESPECIALLY when her claims aren’t supported by confirmation (I know she…

A few points:

But calling up a bunch of landlords and giving them a bullhorn to vent about missed rent payments only contributes to a culture of silence in which the majority of victims never report their assaults

Yep.  And this is the thing.  Reade had a horse.  Horses are expensive pets.  If you are so poor, that you can’t afford to pay rent, you don’t own a horse.  

A history of lying does not mean someone wasn’t sexually assaulted, but in Reade’s case when you have an inconsistent story (both about what happened and why she left Biden’s office,) inconsistent witnesses (two of her witnesses changed their stories to match her changes), and has a history a lying (not just in terms…

The fact that Reade wrote things on the internet praising Putin just a couple short years ago needs to be much more investigated and included in pieces like this article. Russia’s interference into our country’s elections and everyday politics is a massive threat and we cannot just overlook behavior from people like…

Coming on the heels of Jane Roe’s deathbed confession, it does make you wonder....Lots and lots of people believed what she said for years and years. And then it all turns out to be a lie based on monetary gain.

Honestly, the thing I found most interesting about the Politico article was not that information about her bankruptcy and landlords but that her own retelling of her role at Joe Biden’s office seemed to be inflating with each person she told the tale to:

Wait, what? How are her landlords irrelevant? They paint a picture of a woman who was bullshitting her way through not paying rent, when she wasn’t busy using them for therapy and destroying their property. Yes, Politico provided space about the damaged floors. As they should. This is what she thought of other…

Maybe.

Are you fucking kidding me? Please take another shot at smearing criminal defense attorneys who represent people accused of sex assault when you know absolutely nothing about the law. If you bothered to do the bare minimum of your job, you would know that defense attorneys cannot just bring up evidence of how the…

Without any record of complaint, corroboration and an ever-shifting story, I think it's within bounds to look at her motive for this story at this time. The next piece of the puzzle is her history of money troubles and conning people. And a GOP that's willing to pay people to lie. So now, let's just see if she's hit…

These incidents further indicate she has a habit of lying. Also the fact that she spoke highly of Biden back then, and used it to ingratiate herself to people. 

“Never having struggled, never having been dishonest, and never having spoken positively of an alleged abuser.”