The Biden Family Files/CASE 05/1993 – 2025

The family

Ashley’s diary and Tara Reade

A stolen diary, what it does and does not prove, and a 1993 allegation

RECORD / AT A GLANCE

Disputed

The diary was real and stolen: two people pleaded guilty and Ashley Biden confirmed it was hers. The darkest readings of its passages remain unproven. Tara Reade’s allegation has partial corroboration from people she told years later, Biden denied it, and no court or official body has made a finding.

THE EVENTS / THE INVESTIGATION / THE STORY

The chronology.

READ THE FILE

Evidence & assessment.

01

Ashley Biden’s diary

A real theft and what the courts did and did not decide.

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Tara Reade

The allegation, the corroboration and what happened next.

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THIS FILE

The claims, rated.

4 claims people make about this file, each rated documented, partly true, disputed, unproven or false. Think a rating is wrong? Use Dispute or Support, or join the Discussion.

UNPROVEN The family & personal claims

“The diary proves Joe abused Ashley.”

The diary contains a passage about showers that critics read as abuse; Ashley did not make that allegation and no investigation found abuse.

Who says it: Online commentators.

The evidence in this file ↗ · On the full claims board ↗

UNPROVEN The family & personal claims

“Joe Biden sexually assaulted Tara Reade in 1993.”

A friend and a former neighbor say she told them of it years ago; Biden denied it; she later moved to Russia. No court or official body has made a finding.

Who says it: Tara Reade.

The evidence in this file ↗ · On the full claims board ↗

All 126 rated claims ↗

OPEN THE RECORD

Sources & limits.

Numbered citations in each article identify the relevant sources. These records have different purposes and evidentiary weight.

  1. DOJ: Harris and Kurlander plead guilty to interstate stolen-property conspiracy, August 25, 2022 ↗

    Official guilty-plea release anonymizes the victim. Later sentencing reporting and Ashley Biden’s public court letter identify the diary owner. No private diary scans are hosted or linked.

  2. AP: Aimee Harris sentenced for selling Ashley Biden’s diary, April 9, 2024 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  3. Ashley Biden’s April 8, 2024 victim-impact letter, public court filing Document 117; PDF mirror ↗

    Public victim-impact letter and counsel’s cover letter in United States v. Harris, Document 117, filed April 25, 2024; PDF reproduced by The National Pulse. The three-page court filing was read directly. It contains no diary scans. Ownership acknowledgement is not authentication of every online excerpt or a court finding of abuse.

  4. NBC News, 25 August 2022: two Florida residents plead guilty to theft of Ashley Biden’s diary ↗

    The $40,000 sale to Project Veritas.

  5. NPR: interviews with Tara Reade, people she says she told, and former Biden staff, April 19, 2020 ↗

    Contemporaneous journalistic investigation of an alleged 1993 event; interviews conducted in 2020 include recollections of earlier disclosures, not eyewitness confirmation of the alleged assault.

  6. TIME: Biden publicly denies Tara Reade’s assault allegation, May 1, 2020 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  7. NPR: on-record interview with former neighbor Lynda LaCasse, April 29, 2020 ↗

    NPR independently interviewed LaCasse and checked that the women had been neighbors. Her corroboration concerns what she recalls being told, not witnessing the alleged incident.

  8. TIME: allegation, police report and evidentiary limits, May 2020 ↗

    Historical May 2020 evidence summary. This October 2026 edition found no public criminal conviction or civil merits finding establishing the alleged assault; that is a search limit, not proof the allegation is false.

  9. NPR, 31 May 2023: Tara Reade will seek Russian citizenship ↗

    Her appearance in Moscow beside Maria Butina.

  10. Moscow Times, 23 September 2025: Putin grants Russian citizenship to Tara Reade ↗

    She now works for RT; no record has been found of the 1993 complaint she says she filed.

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