Tara Readethe woman who accused the US president of sexual assault in 1993 when he was a senator and she a member of his team, it is in Russia where he just defected. Reade is accompanied by Mariia Butina, the former Russian agent deported from the US and now a deputy of Vladimir Putin’s party.
It’s an incredible scene. Tara Reade, 59, appears on Russian TV and gives a press conference. She comes back to your complaint. And she tells live that in 1993 Joe Biden sexually assaulted her on the Capitol.
These accusations, never corroborated by the slightest evidence, did not lead to a trial. There will never be, because Reade has decided to move to Russia, where will apply for Russian citizenship.
He says he has arrived in Moscow only as a tourist, but that she had felt “safe for the first time in a long time”. Add that he feared for his integrity in his country and says even Florida’s Trumpist elected representative Matt Gaetz told him he could not guarantee his safety in the United States.
At her side, because she accompanies and indeed supports her, is Butina, known for having served a sentence in the United States for espionage.
Butina acknowledged that he was a Russian agent who infiltrated the NRA, the pro-arms lobby in particular, to get closer to ultra-conservative circles and establish relations with Donald Trump’s campaign. She was under the former president’s mandate when she was deported to her home country.
Butine used sex and deception to influence his connections, mainly in conservative circles across the United States and powerful figures in the National Rifle Association.
The Butina-Reade duo on Russian TV sounds like Fallen rhetoric of the Kremlin.
A complaint in the middle of the countryside
Reade’s sexual assault complaint against Biden managed to shake up the election campaign in a country already suffering the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic.
Reade’s complaint, about an alleged abuse committed 27 years ago, erupted when he barely six months to go for the 2020 presidential election.
“Tara Reade deserves to be heard and voters deserve to hear her. They also deserve to listen to Joe Biden,” wrote the Washington Post at the time.
According to the woman’s version, she he was alone with Biden in the halls of Congress. Without an “exchange of words,” the then-senator “put her against the wall” and her “fingers” as he kissed her.
Then I would ask him if he wanted to go somewhere else. Seeing her upset and facing her refusal to go any further than her, Biden allegedly told her “come on, I heard you liked it.” But since she refused, she let her go.
Biden: “It never happened”
Biden has publicly defended himself against the allegations. And in a statement he said: “They’re not true, it’s never happened”.
Biden has asked the National Archives to release any record of the complaint. “There is only one place such a denunciation could exist: the National Archives,” she said in the statement.
“The National Archives are where the records of what was then called the Office of Fair Employment Practices are kept. I request that the Secretary of the Senate ask the Archives to identify any record of the complaint that you claim you have filed and to make that document available to the press. If ever there was such a complaint, the record will be there He added.
Curious (or perhaps less curious), more than three years later and when the electoral climate heats up again in the United States with a possible new Biden-Turmp presidential duelTara Reade has once again waved her complaint, but this time under the clear protection of Moscow.
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Source: Clarin
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