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Welcome to amped up. This is your host Brian Knight and we have a very special guest today. Our guest is

Tara read. Tara is a survivor, an animal rights activist, an author.

Tara, welcome to Amped Up.

Thank you for having me, Ryan. It's good to see you.

Yeah, thank you for coming back on the show.

We spoke last year during the general election, right?

Kind of when everything was happening.

And since our last conversation, which if you haven't listened to my first

conversation with Tara, I highly recommend you go listen to it because you were so

forthcoming and truthful and really spoke from the heart and I think you touched a lot of people.

You touched me just with your courage and your bravery.

But since you last came on the show, you finished your book and your new book is out and it's called

uh... left out when the truth doesn't fit in

and it's about the aftermath of coming forward against Joe Biden.

What happened to you after you spoke out last year?

Well, it was really stunning.

From my perspective, I expected, of course, maybe there would be a rejection of what I said by Joe Biden's campaign and you know as he went forward but I didn't expect to be called you know a Russian asset I didn't expect to be

class-shamed for being working class I didn't expect the vitriol that I

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