A female who implicated Joe Biden throughout the 2020 governmental race of sexual attack appeared Tuesday in Moscow, where she said she was asking President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship.
Tara Reade, who operated in Bidens congressional workplace for a short period in 1993, said she wished to stay in Russia after a Republican lawmaker informed her she remained in physical danger.
Reade, 59, stated in a streamed interview with the Sputnik media group that she had shown up in Russia as a tourist.
However, she said, When I got off the plane in Moscow, for the very first time in a very long time I felt safe, and I felt heard and felt appreciated.
Reade stimulated headlines in early 2020 by claiming that then-senator Biden sexually assaulted her in a Capitol Hill corridor in August 1993, when she was 29.
Her accusation came simply as Biden was ramping up his project against incumbent president Donald Trump, who himself has actually faced allegations of sexual assault and rape.
Biden unconditionally denied her claim.< p > It is not real.
Im saying unquestionably it never ever, never ever took place, he stated.
Reade said she submitted a complaint after the supposed event, however no record of it has been found.? But a 1996 court file records her ex-husband mentioning that she had actually complained of sexual harassment while operating in Bidens office.< p > It is not clear if her allegations have ever been formally examined.
Reade, who called herself a geopolitical analyst, said in the Sputnik interview that after making her claims public in 2020, she was threatened with jail, her life was threatened, and she was called a Russian representative.
Sitting together with Maria Butina, a Russian legislator who was apprehended and locked up in Washington in 2018 as an alleged spy, Reade told the recruiter she has always loved Russia.
I do not see Russia as an opponent nor do a number of my fellow American residents, she said.
She had one big demand.
I d like to get citizenship in Russia, from the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, she stated.
I do promise to be a good citizen, she said, including that she likewise wishes to hold onto her United States citizenship.