A former staffer who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault
has defected to Moscow, telling state media that she felt
“safe” in Russia and would seek citizenship there.

Tara Reade, who drew headlines during the 2020 presidential
race by accusing then-candidate Biden of sexually harassing
and assaulting her, said she decided to go to Russia after
receiving threats in the US.

Biden has strongly denied Reade’s allegations, and no ex-Biden
staffer has come forward to say they ever witnessed or heard
about any kind of sexual misconduct in his Senate office.
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After being out of the headlines for years, Reade turned up
in Moscow on Tuesday, where she sat alongside convicted
Kremlin spy Maria Butina and answered questions from Russian
state media over several hours.

During the news conference, Butina promised to discuss the
possibility of granting Russian citizenship to Reade and ask
Putin “to fast track her citizenship request.”

Butina was sentenced to 18 months in a US prison in 2019 for
conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent, and now
serves in the Russian parliament in President Vladimir Putin’s
party.

Reade said she decided to come to Russia following death
threats she received this year after she reiterated her
accusations regarding Biden and announced on Twitter that
she was willing “to testify under oath in Congress if asked.”


“When I got off the plane in Moscow, for the first time in
a very long time I felt safe, and I felt heard, and I felt
respected. That has not happened in my own country,” Reade
said.
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Reade said that “this illusion of Russia as an enemy is
propagated by a few Washington elites who are determined to
cause problems.”

Не знаю даже как сие прокомментировать, здесь прекрасно
решительно все.

Я все жду когда рыжий попугай, не дожидась приговора суда
(а там зреют, кажется еще семь уголовных дел) внезапно уедет
под Ростов под аккомпанемент подобных же высказываний.
В этом букете который там собирается для полной гармонии
явно не хватает оранжевого цветка. Может быть, кстати,
и дождемся, боженька милостивый не зря в одном месте
собирает весь, кхм, цвет планеты.