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AStern

(517 posts)
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:25 PM Wednesday

TNR: Woman Who Accused Joe Biden of Sexual Assault Defects to Russia

“This was a very special day,” Reade posted on X Monday, resharing a clip of her on RT, a Russian state-controlled television station. “I am now a Russian citizen! What an honor. Thank you to President Putin for this amazing honor of signing a decree making me a citizen and keeping me safe when I applied for asylum.”

Reade also gave a pointed shout-out to Maria Butina, a Russian parliamentarian and self-admitted Kremlin agent who was convicted in 2018 for conspiring to act as a clandestine foreign agent on behalf of Russia in the 2016 U.S. election. Butina leveraged her ties at the National Rifle Association, including her boyfriend—longtime Republican fundraiser Paul Erickson—to develop back channels between Moscow and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Butina first attempted to get face time with Trump as early as July 2015.

Reade first announced her intention to defect to Russia in 2023, when she claimed she no longer felt safe in the United States. Around the same time, Moscow had announced its intention to build a migrant village for American conservatives to take refuge from “liberal gender norms.” However, the project has since collapsed due to low demand, Russian outlet Vot Tak reported in July.

“I am a lucky girl,” Reade concluded.

https://newrepublic.com/post/200814/joe-biden-accuser-tara-reade-russian-spy-citizenship

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TNR: Woman Who Accused Joe Biden of Sexual Assault Defects to Russia (Original Post) AStern Wednesday OP
Good riddance JustAnotherGen Wednesday #1
Why? She would be perfectly at home with KRASNOV UTUSN Wednesday #2
She's s loose-end maxrandb Thursday #20
Many stories... Mike Nelson Wednesday #3
Few may have had that on their Bingo card, but no one is surprised. Baitball Blogger Wednesday #4
I thought she went there ages ago. niyad Wednesday #5
Yes, I thought everyone knew this. I remember making Snowden potluck party jokes. betsuni Wednesday #8
I remember that there were a great many comments, although I niyad Wednesday #13
Apparently the earlier plans fell through. yardwork Thursday #21
Enjoy your new Icehole life honey. ornotna Wednesday #6
And now I have "The Maria Butina Song" (I Can Get A Man With A Gun"), niyad Wednesday #7
I never believed her allegation, 'cause no one else ever accused Biden of such conduct. Guys that do that sort of thing, Fil1957 Wednesday #9
Is anyone particularly shocked? Warpy Wednesday #10
News to me, Honestly cannot recall this person. News or otherwise Pas-de-Calais Wednesday #11
Vlad the Bad will soon come knocking for his pound of flesh cutroot Wednesday #12
Is that where everyone goes mountain grammy Wednesday #14
That's it! yardwork Thursday #22
Chris Hayes, TYT, that Blame & Bash Democrats industry really wanted Tara "Crotchless Panties" Reade to happen. betsuni Wednesday #15
PBS debunked it thoroughly. summer_in_TX Wednesday #16
Which is why PBS had to die. yardwork Thursday #23
Special day here as well! Bev54 Wednesday #17
Hand that lucky girl an AK-12 and send her to the Western front. LudwigPastorius Wednesday #18
lol she reminds me of that secretary from the 'Americans' fujiyamasan Thursday #19

Mike Nelson

(10,764 posts)
3. Many stories...
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 08:47 PM
Wednesday

... don't need a lot of analysis. This one is exactly what it seems like. Enjoy your comfortable life, Ms. Reade.

niyad

(127,526 posts)
13. I remember that there were a great many comments, although I
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 11:02 PM
Wednesday

apologize for not remembering any specific ones.

niyad

(127,526 posts)
7. And now I have "The Maria Butina Song" (I Can Get A Man With A Gun"),
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:36 PM
Wednesday

from Sandy and Richard Riccardi playing in my head. Spasibo, y'all!

Fil1957

(234 posts)
9. I never believed her allegation, 'cause no one else ever accused Biden of such conduct. Guys that do that sort of thing,
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 10:57 PM
Wednesday

always do it to more than just one, and end up having multiple accusers.

Warpy

(113,955 posts)
10. Is anyone particularly shocked?
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 11:00 PM
Wednesday

There'd s tathere self serving autobiography by a KGB agent who came here in the 70s and was active until the mid 80s and the main thing I gleand from that book was his rather offhand statement that he could never make any headway recruiting American leftists but found extremely suggestible conservatives.

At l4east Reade's story broke down fast enough to make her a laughing stock everywhere but Pox News. The KGB just never seemed to realize just how dumb a lot of US conservatives can be.

I just hope Reade has to stay theree and face what Putin has done to Russia.

betsuni

(28,371 posts)
15. Chris Hayes, TYT, that Blame & Bash Democrats industry really wanted Tara "Crotchless Panties" Reade to happen.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 11:12 PM
Wednesday

summer_in_TX

(3,843 posts)
16. PBS debunked it thoroughly.
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 11:14 PM
Wednesday

They re-enacted the event at the time of day she said it occurred, and it became completely evident that there was no way it could have happened. Not without many, many witnesses – which of course wasn't there.

The whole PBS piece was very well done. After that, all the hyperventilating on social media just went out like a deflating balloon. All the for-profit media were getting a lot of mileage off of it until then.

fujiyamasan

(723 posts)
19. lol she reminds me of that secretary from the 'Americans'
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 02:39 AM
Thursday

I need to watch that show again.

Awww so Reade got to defect to the motherland. It would be funny if this village for American conservatives is in Siberia or some remote part of Russia.

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