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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTNR: 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 boyfriendlongtime Republican fundraiser Paul Ericksonto develop back channels between Moscow and Donald Trumps 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

JustAnotherGen
(37,106 posts)UTUSN
(75,825 posts)maxrandb
(16,864 posts)I'd stay away from 5TH floor windows if I were her.
Mike Nelson
(10,764 posts)... don't need a lot of analysis. This one is exactly what it seems like. Enjoy your comfortable life, Ms. Reade.
Baitball Blogger
(50,981 posts)niyad
(127,526 posts)betsuni
(28,371 posts)niyad
(127,526 posts)apologize for not remembering any specific ones.
yardwork
(68,145 posts)ornotna
(11,368 posts)
niyad
(127,526 posts)from Sandy and Richard Riccardi playing in my head. Spasibo, y'all!
Fil1957
(234 posts)always do it to more than just one, and end up having multiple accusers.
Warpy
(113,955 posts)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.
Pas-de-Calais
(10,187 posts)cutroot
(1,020 posts)mountain grammy
(28,246 posts)When raptured?
yardwork
(68,145 posts)betsuni
(28,371 posts)
summer_in_TX
(3,843 posts)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.
yardwork
(68,145 posts)Bev54
(12,908 posts)LudwigPastorius
(13,481 posts)fujiyamasan
(723 posts)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.