Woman who accused Biden of sexual assault seeks Russian citizenship

An American woman who accused US President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her has flown to Moscow and is seeking Russian citizenship.

Speaking to a state-run Russian news outlet, Tara Reade, 59, said she felt safe in the country and wanted to stay. Reade alleged that  Biden assaulted her while she was working in his congressional office in 1993.

Biden strongly denied her allegation. “Unequivocally it never, never happened,” he said.

Reade worked as an assistant to Biden when he was a senator for Delaware. She made headlines in 2020 as his presidential campaign was getting under way, when she claimed that he assaulted her in a Capitol Hill corridor when she was 29.

She accused him of forcing her against a wall and putting his hands under her shirt and skirt.

(BBC)