The woman who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault finds 'refuge' in Russia

Tara Reade, a former employee of Joe Biden's Senate office who accused the then-presidential candidate during the 2020 election campaign of sexually assaulting her in 1993, has defected to Russia.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
31 May 2023 Wednesday 04:25
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The woman who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault finds 'refuge' in Russia

Tara Reade, a former employee of Joe Biden's Senate office who accused the then-presidential candidate during the 2020 election campaign of sexually assaulting her in 1993, has defected to Russia. The American assures her that she finally feels safe there, after regretting the rejection she received from the Democratic Party and that before her departure she feared for her life. She has even asked President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship, according to what she recounted in an interview with the Russian news agency Sputnik on Tuesday from Moscow.

Reade, 59, appeared on camera alongside Russian lawmaker Maria Butina, a Russian agent who was jailed in the United States for some time for trying to infiltrate political circles and the National Rifle Association. "I feel safe for the first time in a long time," she assures the agency that supports Putin. The woman assures that her desire is to live in both countries, but that if she finally has to stay permanently in Russia, she "will be fine".

He also revealed that he had received death threats. “I just didn't want to walk home and go into a cage or die, which were basically my two options,” Reade says. As he explains, when Biden presented his candidacy for 2024, he repeated his accusation and asked to testify before the United States House of Representatives, now controlled by the Republican Party. He did not find an answer and now he appears in Moscow.

In April 2020 and in the midst of the wave of

Reade's testimony hit the Biden campaign, which had based its message in opposition to Donald Trump, whom several women accused of sexual abuse, a crime for which he was convicted in early May. In fact, Biden was also widely criticized for being too affectionate with his employees. But as for the Reade case, inconsistencies appeared in his statements. For example, no trace of the complaint that he said he filed with Congress after the fact has been found. A year later the woman published a book to explain her story: Excluded: when the truth does not fit.