More: Read Joe Biden's full statement on Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation 'We've known each other for quite some time now,' Butina said in asking Putin himself to “fast track” Reade’s citizenship request. “My dream is to live in both places, but it may be that I only live in this place and that's okay,' Reade said.ĭuring the joint appearance, Reade described Butina as 'my friend,' and Masha, a fond Russian diminutive of Maria. She stopped short of saying she was formally defecting and renouncing her U.S. 'I'm still kind of in a daze a bit but I feel very good,' Reade told Sputnik, saying she made the “very difficult” decision to leave the United States because of her security concerns. federal prison before being deported back to Russia in 2019, and thanked Butina for her assistance.īiden has denied the allegations made by Reade, who claimed Tuesday that her continuing efforts to speak out publicly about the president made her feel unsafe about living in the United States. She appeared on a broadcast alongside Maria Butina, a suspected Kremlin spy who spent 13 months in a U.S. Reade made her surprise announcement on Tuesday in a lengthy interview with the pro-Russian Sputnik media organization. for Russia and asked President Vladimir Putin for citizenship. Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who in 2020 accused then-Presidential candidate Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her nearly three decades earlier, has fled the U.S.

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