Tara Reade says that she has been trying to tell her story for years.

In 2019, multiple women came out publicly to state Joe Biden had made inappropriate contact with them in ways that made them uncomfortable.

One of these women was Tara Reade, who said Biden used to “put his hand on my shoulder and run his finger up my neck” in 1993 when she worked in his Senate office.

Reade says there was more to her story. In an interview with Katie Halper, which aired Wednesday, according to Reade, Biden sexually assaulted her, pushing her against a wall and penetrating her with his fingers. When she pulled away, she says, he said something along the lines of, he thought she “liked” him.

“It happened all at once, and then … his hands were on me and underneath my clothes,” Reade told Halper on Halper’s podcast. “I looked up to him; he was like my father’s age. He was this champion of women’s rights in my eyes, and I couldn’t believe it was happening,” she said while describing how Biden seemed angry when she pulled away from him. “I wanted to be a senator; I didn’t want to sleep with one.”

Biden’s campaign team has categorically, vehemently denied all the allegations, which Deputy Campaign Manager and Communications Director Kate Bedingfield called “false.”

“Women have a right to tell their story, and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims,” Bedingfield said. “We encourage them to do so because these accusations are false.”

The Biden campaign also released a statement from Marianne Baker, who worked as an executive assistant to Biden from the years 1982 to 2000. “In all my years working for Senator Biden, I never once witnessed, or heard of, or received, any reports of inappropriate conduct, period — not from Ms. Reade, not from anyone,” Baker said. “These clearly false allegations are in complete contradiction to both the inner workings of our Senate office and to the man I know and worked so closely with for almost two decades.”