ara Reade, who accused President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, is requesting Russian citizenship from Vladimir Putin due to concerns about her safety in the United States.
She served as Biden's former aide in the 1990s when he represented Delaware as a U.S. Senator. While Biden was in the midst of his most recent presidential campaign, Reade filed a criminal complaint with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department in April 2020 accusing him of pushing her against the wall in a Senate corridor and penetrating her with his fingers.
Sitting alongside Maria Butina, who was arrested in 2018 after pleading guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent in an attempt to influence NRA and U.S. policy to benefit the Kremlin, Reade detailed her current state of mind while lamenting that she's still "never gotten an investigation" into the current U.S. president.
"One thing I want to make clear, and I want my fellow American citizens to hear this if they see this: Don't be intimidated because I'm not," Reade told the interviewer from Sputnik International as part of a four-plus hour interview. "I'm not going to be intimidated, bullied or silenced. I'm going to speak out and I'm willing to speak under oath about the corruption I witnessed, about the crime I experienced. And it is remarkable that Joe Biden raped me when I worked for him at US Congress and I'm supposed to be the fugitive. That is ridiculous and it's unacceptable."