A woman who accused US President, Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her has defected to Russia and is seeking citizenship.
Tara Reade, 59, came forward during the 2020
presidential race with allegations that Biden sexually harassed and assaulted
her in 1993 when he was a senator and she worked in his office.
Biden denied the allegations, and Reade
reiterated them after he announced his reelection bid for 2024. Reade tweeted
that she was willing 'to testify under oath in Congress if asked' – and
afterwards received death threats.
She recently went to Russia and on Tuesday
May 30. Sitting next to convicted Kremlin spy Maria Butina, Reade opened up
about her 'very difficult' decision to go there.
The former staffer of the United States
Senate, said; 'I'm still kind of in a daze a bit but I feel very good' in
Russia.
''I just didn't want to walk home and walk
into a cage or be killed, which is basically my two choices,' she told Russian state
news media Sputnik.
'I'm not an impulsive person. I really take
my time and sort of analyze data points''
'And from what I could see based on the cases
and based on what was happening and sort of the push for them to not want me to
testify, I felt that while this election is gearing up and there's so much at
stake, I'm almost better off here and just being safe.' Reade added.
Convicted Kremlin spy Maria Butina, who was
sentenced to 18 months in an American prison for acting as an unregistered
foreign agent of Russia, said she will ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to
expedite Reade's request for citizenship.
Reade said to her 'Russian brothers and
sisters': ‘I’m sorry right now that American elites are choosing to have such
an aggressive stance. Just know that most American citizens do want to be
friends and hope that we can have unity again.’
She added that she is 'enjoying' her time in
Moscow and feels 'very at home'.
Reade said, 'my dream is to live in both
places, but it may be that I only live in this place and that's okay'.
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