A day after a woman who claimed Joe Biden had once sexually assaulted her announced she was applying for Russian citizenship, a top White House spokesman said that her contention that she faced any danger from the United States government is “absolutely false.”
Tara Reade worked as an aide in Joe Biden’s Senate office for less than a year in the early 1990s. During the 2020 presidential campaign, she publicly accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993.
On Tuesday, Reade appeared in Moscow on a Russian state-sponsored broadcast, saying she felt her life was threatened in the U.S. after she came forward with allegations against Biden, and that she was asking President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship. During the broadcast, Reade sat with Maria Butina, a member of the Russian parliament and a convicted Russian agent who was jailed in the US before being returned to Russia in 2019.
Asked if the White House had any reaction to Reade saying she felt safer in Russia, John Kirby, the National Security Council’s Coordinator for Strategic Communications, said he’d “be loath to comment on the musings of a potential Russian citizen” and that her motivations and intentions for asking for Russian citizenship were for her to describe. “The one thing I will say is that the allegations that her life is at risk by the United States government—absolutely false,” Kirby said.
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