Backholm is not sure which conference it was where Reade disclosed to him that she had formerly been assaulted.According to Backholm, the two were sitting with other law students on a hotel patio by the water chatting late at night during one of these conferences. In the end, Chung recounted, he lost thousands of dollars in court-related fees, lost rent and repair costs.When he confronted her, Chung said, “She knew exactly what she had done to me and there was no remorse.

Klett said she cut her losses and was polite to Reade, who continued calling even after she moved out, asking for money on multiple occasions. Gina Kindscher, the owner of Morning Sun Ranch, whose daughter is friends with Reade, said, “She’s a wonderful person. Backholm and Reade got to know each other through the Christian Legal Society , a non-profit, non-denominational organization of Christian lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students, Backholm … And ‘could you help her’?” Wrye’s distressing experience with Reade wasn’t an isolated case. She became part of my whole family.”Kindscher added that she has heard Reade had run-ins with others, but, “I can only speak to my experiences with her.” Reade boarded her personal horse at Kindscher’s ranch for a part of 2017. Over months of talks about the law and women’s advocacy, Klett said Reade’s take on Biden never wavered. And She’s Had A Difficult Time Getting A Hearing.

When she couldn’t pay the boarding costs, “she would work it off” around the ranch, Kindscher said. And I was in a position to be able to you know stand with her and make sure she didn’t just get left out there flapping in the wind all by herself.

At the time, Reade did not share details of an assault. Reade has previously told the DCNF that she changed her name out of fear for her safety after going through a messy divorce. “She was always saying she was going to get it together, but she couldn’t.

It was simply two law school friends talking about where we had come from and where we hoped to go.”The two continued to correspond after law school through Christmas cards and social media, Backholm said, but when Reade moved back to California they eventually fell out of touch.Backholm criticized media coverage of Reade’s allegations, emphasizing that such behavior is “what bullies do.” He emphasized that the #METOO movement and many politicians have spent years assuring the country that it is courageous to speak and stand up for oneself, promising support if survivors speak out.“I think she actually believed that when they said that and those are the very same people who are now trying to destroy her life,” he added.“I don’t know what mistakes she’s made in her life,” Backholm said, referring to media coverage of Reade’s academic credentials and her past. I do think she’s a liar.”Hummer provided an email from an exchange in which, within weeks of starting at the ranch, Reade asked whether she could bring her car on Hummer’s property to hide it from “the repo man.” Hummer declined.In another instance, Reade came by the ranch desperately seeking $200 to pay the rent, Hummer saidHummer also alleged Reade called a veterinarian to the ranch to service her personal horse, leaving Hummer to pay a $1,400 bill.Hummer has publicly leveled that charge and others since Reade’s accusations against Biden have gone public. Wigdor argued that Reade’s favorable comments about Biden are no different than how some of Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein’s accusers continued to have contact with him even after they said he abused them. In this April 4, 2019, photo Tara Reade poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in Nevada City, Calif. Donald Thompson/AP, FILE … “I didn’t ask for a name.”Reade confirmed to the DCNF that she knew Backholm and that she told him she was assaulted. 2020 Elections ‘Manipulative, deceitful, user’: Tara Reade left a trail of aggrieved acquaintances. “I didn’t ever find her difficult,” he added.The two held very different political views: Backholm is conservative, a supporter of President Donald Trump, and works as legal counsel for Reade formerly worked for Democratic politicians, favored former 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and has told the DCNF that she is strongly pro-choice.“We sparred often in very friendly ways,” Backholm said.

I think we are Alexandra/Tara survivors.”One of them is Klett, who first met Reade in 2018, when Reade showed up at Klett’s 30-acre equestrian expanse in Santa Cruz County asking to rent a room.Reade shared that she had been a victim of domestic abuse and was taking some time to study for the bar exam. (In 2020, Reade offered new details, claiming that Biden sexually assaulted her in a Senate hallway. When he returned to the house he had once fixed up for her, he said the floors had been damaged by animal waste. In 1996, a judge in San Luis Obispo Superior Court authorized a temporary restraining order against Reade’s then-husband.

Ms. Reade, on the other hand, has answered hundreds of questions and did a sit down hour-long interview with Megyn Kelly,” Wigdor said. “It was positive and in a bragging sense.” Klett, an attorney and domestic violence victims’ advocate, was sold. Her explanations always sounded sincere and convincing, Chung said, so he reduced her rent and tried to come up with a compromise. Read the latest Tara Reade headlines, all in one place, on NewsNow: the one-stop shop for news "Did she think that all of the people she ran over would just roll over and die and forget about her? And there was a sense that she was trying to plant a story with me, so she could later say: ‘I told the story to this attorney I worked with,’” Klett said.

“Now, do I know that? )According to their accounts, Reade proactively brought up the former vice president’s name, pointing to her time in his Senate office as a high point in her career.