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Martin Pengelly in New York

Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, defects to Russia

Tara Reade
Tara Reade: ‘To my Russian brothers and sisters, I’m sorry right now that American elites are choosing to have such an aggressive stance.’ Photograph: Donald Thompson/AP

Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who in 2020 accused Joe Biden of sexual assault, has said she had defected to Russia.

“I’m still kind of in a daze a bit but I feel very good,” Reade told Sputnik, a Russian press outlet supportive of President Vladimir Putin, while sitting with Maria Butina, a convicted Russian agent jailed in the US but now a member of parliament in Russia.

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