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

2023-05-31 12:48:13

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 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 with Russian MP Maria Butina, a Russian agent who had spent some time imprisoned in the United States for having tried to infiltrate political circles and the National Rifle Association. “I feel safe for the first time in a long time,” she told 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”.

Reade says his life was in danger

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 #MeToo wave, Reade claimed that Biden had sexually assaulted her in a corridor of the US Congress. when he was a senator and she worked for him. In another version of the events that she herself gave, Reade recounted that Biden used to put his hand on her shoulder and run her finger along her neck and assured that she was fired from her for refusing to waitress. . The then presidential candidate kept a more than awkward silence before the accusation, that in the end denied.

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 heavily 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.