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What specific allegations has Ashley Biden made against Joe Biden and when were they made?

Checked on November 17, 2025
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Executive summary

Ashley Biden has not publicly accused her father, President Joe Biden, in contemporary media reports of sexual misconduct beyond personal diary passages describing “showers with my dad” and questioning whether she “was molested,” material first reported after the diary’s theft and publication; Ashley confirmed the diary’s authenticity in court filings and asked for privacy, and prosecutors said the diary was stolen to harm Joe Biden politically [1] [2]. Major reporting on formal allegations against Joe Biden centers on Tara Reade’s 2019–2020 claims of workplace sexual assault and multiple women’s accounts of unwelcome touching, not on direct contemporaneous public accusations by Ashley Biden [3] [4] [5].

1. What specific statements by Ashley Biden exist and when they surfaced

Ashley Biden’s relevant statements are primarily diary entries that became public after the journal was stolen and sold in 2020; those entries include a July 2019 line describing being “Hyper-sexualized @ a young age,” a passage about “showers with my dad” described in some reporting as “probably not appropriate,” and a journal passage where she asks “Was I molested. I think so” (as reported by media that published the diary) [1] [6]. Ashley later confirmed in a court filing and in a judge-directed context that the diary is authentic and wrote to a judge describing the pain caused by the theft; prosecutors at sentencing said the diary was stolen to harm Joe Biden politically [2] [1].

2. How reporters and fact-checkers have framed the diary material

Fact-checking outlets and mainstream reporting note the provenance and handling of the diary: Project Veritas and other right-leaning outlets acquired copies after the diary was taken from a Florida residence, and Project Veritas paid for material tied to the document’s sale, according to court testimony and reporting; Snopes and Associated Press coverage trace the diary’s public circulation and stress context about the theft [1]. Reporting emphasizes that the diary was published in a partisan environment shortly before the 2020 election and that its theft and sale were prosecuted [1] [2].

3. What Ashley Biden has not publicly alleged (per available reporting)

Available sources in this set do not report Ashley Biden making an on-the-record, contemporaneous public accusation in the form of a criminal complaint, press statement, or interview alleging that Joe Biden committed a specific criminal act against her beyond the diary passages; instead, the public record here centers on the diary’s content and its theft, and Ashley’s court letters about that theft [2] [1]. If you seek claims beyond the diary text (for example, an official report filed by Ashley to police or prosecutors), available reporting in these sources does not mention such filings [2] [1].

4. How this relates to other widely reported accusations against Joe Biden

Separate from Ashley’s diary, Tara Reade publicly accused Joe Biden in 2019–2020 of sexual assault during the early 1990s while she worked in his Senate office; Biden publicly denied that allegation and invited investigation of any official complaint [3] [4]. Additionally, multiple women have made public claims of unwelcome touching by Biden; outlets and analyses (including academic commentary) treat those as distinct from any allegations tied to Ashley’s diary [3] [5].

5. Competing narratives and political context to keep in mind

Conservative outlets and commentators have highlighted Ashley’s diary passages as evidence of abuse by Joe Biden, treating the diary as proof and calling for greater scrutiny [6] [7]. Mainstream fact-checkers and reporting highlight the diary’s theft, partisan circulation, and the legal consequences for those who stole it; they also contextualize the diary amid other, separately reported allegations against Biden rather than as a formal contemporaneous accusation by Ashley herself [1] [2]. Academic commentary urges careful, fair examination of all allegations—both to take survivors seriously and to avoid politicized distortions—pointing to separate public accounts about unwanted touching and Tara Reade’s claim [5].

6. Limitations of the available reporting and how to proceed

The sources provided focus on the diary’s publication, its theft, court filings about the theft, and previously public allegations by other women (not an independent, contemporaneous investigative finding about Ashley’s diary claims). They do not include police reports or full primary-documents from Ashley alleging criminal conduct beyond her diary entries, so definitive statements about formal accusations are not found in current reporting [1] [2]. For verification beyond these sources—such as court filings by Ashley alleging abuse, forensic authentication of diary content beyond her court acknowledgment, or comprehensive investigative journalism tying diary passages to independently corroborated events—you would need access to additional primary reporting or legal records not supplied here.

If you want, I can summarize the diary passages chronologically as reported, compile a timeline of public reporting and legal actions around the diary theft, or extract the exact quoted diary lines as reported by specific outlets (noting provenance and publication dates).

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