Tara Reade on Being Exiled to Russia After Accusing Joe Biden
Former Senate aide Tara Reade credibly accused Joe Biden of sexual assault. Now the DOJ is after her and she’s moved to Russia seeking political asylum. We spoke to her in Moscow.
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Yeah, well, my attorney actually had filed a complaint with the Inspector General about the way I was treated by the FBI and DOJ and how they were harassing me.
And they didn't receive a response.
Surprise, surprise.
So after we waited, there was no response.
He filed a tort claim, and it's for $10 million.
And basically what the outcome will be, hopefully, is that they will open my FBI files and then expunge them.
And the criminal case that has been opened against me in Northern California, the one that's sealed, will be revealed because that was opened by DOJ and FBI, where they took all my Twitter communications, now X, it's called, but Gmail, you name it, all my social media was taken under sealed warrants.
The only reason I know about the sealed warrants and it was publicized is because a Twitter lawyer had called and told me that this has happened and they had made a motion in court to tell me.
And so this case had impaneled a grand jury, so it went pretty far.
So it's just like shy of indictment.
But what are they going to indict me for?
Well, they won't tell me.
Now, as an American citizen, that's infuriating, right?
I think a lot of people watching this are confused.
You, of course, are most famous for recounting in public your experience of sexual assault, and I think it was a sexual assault by then Senator Joe Biden in an elevator when you worked for him.
And unlike a lot of people who make these claims, you have contemporaneous evidence in your mother's call to Larry King Live, which came out years later.
It's an amazing story.
And I think it's a credible story.
But what did you do wrong?
How did you wind up the subject of a sealed potential indictment of a criminal investigation by the U.S. government?
And I posted the sealed warrant, and that's been in the media.
So the sealed warrant is visible.
You can see the case number.
Journalists have tried to look it up.
My attorneys tried to look it up.
No one will tell them what it is.
Then they started coming at me in more subvert ways, which was, you know, basically harassment, death threats.
Particularly, it amped up when Marjorie Taylor Greene and Representative Matt Gates asked me to testify in the whistleblowers panel.
Like I was going to talk about how difficult it is to be a whistleblower because I've been so targeted.
And then when I was about to testify, you know, I'll get to that part, but when I was about to testify, things really amped up as far as threats and undermining me.
And it was hard to get a job.
People thought I was a security threat.
There were, you know, innuendos.
You know, my reputation was destroyed.
And we've talked about this.
So my attorney basically said, okay, that's that.
You know, we're going to, you know, file this complaint.
And this came after, you know, when I was here in Moscow, Russia, I came here to publicize my book and to oversee the translation of it.
And I did an interview with Channel 1.
And Russian TV channel.
And Channel 1 is sanctioned, apparently.
And apparently that was, I was here for vacation.
So I had packed literally for seven days, five days, didn't have much with me.
And then about midway through, I started getting, you know, messages that I was from former intelligence.
They were trying to get me messages, whistleblowers, like, look, you know, you're in danger of being indicted if you go back.
I talked to my lawyers about indicted for what?
For FARA, the Foreign Registration Act, which is the same thing they went after Maria Butana for.
And Paul Manafort.
And Maria Butina, if you read, there's a really good article called The Spy Who Wasn't, who really lays out why she wasn't a spy and she wasn't.
She's now working for the state Duma, but she was definitely targeted.
But that set the president, Paul Manafort, in her case, set the president.
But wait, just to be clear, you're an American who has accused the sitting president of sexually assaulting you while you worked for him as a young woman.
Well, they, in 2019, if you recall, one of the smears that they made against me was that I was a Russian asset, even though I had no ties to Russia, immediately out the gate.
That was the Biden campaign, told that to the New York Times.
They said that was their first response.
Not a denial, not anything else.
They said, oh, she's a Russian asset.
And that started in 2019 and got spread around.
And then it continued on and had a life of its own because it was spread by former Obama staff, Edward Isaac Dovere, people like that, who have some clout on social media and people listen.
So unfortunately, there was that kind of overhanging it.
It's someone like me that just had a claim against my former employer that should have been investigated properly and should have been adjudicated in a proper way.
And I should have been treated with some dignity instead of having my life torn to pieces.
You're in Moscow, where we are now, and you hear that you could be indicted or punished under the Foreign Agent Registration Act for giving this interview with a local TV station.
Because I was supposed to go the first week of June and walk with him on the Senate floor to get my Senate thing open and I wanted to do that and he advised me.
He didn't advise me.
I should rephrase that, he gave me information.
He basically just said, you know, I'm worried about you, I'm worried about your personal safety and you're good where you are.
You know that kind of thing, and he was.
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He just said he knew how those people operated and so he was concerned about me, those people being employees of the U.S. Government.
So when a U.S. Congressman tells you something like that, it's remarkable, that's a remarkable data point right, a remarkable data point.
And I trusted him he could, because he could have easily just said, oh sure, it'll be fine.
And I did ask him.
I said please, you know um congressman, can you help me?
Can you get me off these charges, can you?
And he said no, I can't.
I'm sorry, I can't.
I'm, my hands are tied, I I don't even know what they are and sometimes some of this intelligence isn't shared.
But what I can tell you is just that um, I understand how these people operate and yeah, i'm really worried about your personal safety because I had received death threats at that point.
And you think about it.
I'm not that well known.
I would have been in the news maybe a day or two, maybe you or someone else might have talked about me for a couple of times, but it would have been considered a conspiracy theory, like Adam Rich Right and his death.
So I I reached out, and i'm forever grateful to Maria Butna because Masha helped me and she helped me with the process of how to, just the how-to of applying for political asylum, which I did, and And it took a few weeks.
Only 10% of those cases get accepted, but they do their due diligence and they felt that there was enough of a problem where they had to give me a test.
It was a big decision, but it wasn't just what he said.
And I don't want to put this all on your shoulders.
Yeah.
It was several people's.
And one, I can't really say who it was, but went to great risk to send me a message to say if you get off that plane, they're going to take you into custody.
For what?
And violation of the FAR Act.
Probably they were talking about violation of sanctions.
There was talk that I had red notices, which are, you know, arrest warrants.
You know, but no one has called what's so interesting to me is we have supposedly free media in the United States as a backstop against a check against government overreach, too much power in the hands of too few.
And so it's supposed to be a self-correcting system.
If something truly crazy and totalitarian happens to an American citizen, our media is supposed to take an interest and alert the rest of the country so they know what's going on.
So they can say, whoa, I may not like Tara Reed and I don't agree with her or whatever, but you can't do that.
You can't arrest someone for no crime or for complaining about the president.
Like, has anyone from the New York Times called you?
The first month I was here, a bunch of Democratic troll farms or whatever doxed her, photo, her work address, tried to get her fired.
She was interning as a therapist.
She's a therapist with children.
She works with play therapy, with children who've been traumatized.
And they tried to get her fired and they were saying it out loud and calling the work.
But luckily, you know, my daughter's work is, you know, not interested in those kinds of, you know, smears.
So my daughter's fine.
But like, you know, having her face plastered everywhere because she's associated with me.
My horse was almost kidnapped.
They literally came and took him almost on a trailer.
And luckily the owners of the stable were there.
So I'm getting these calls at three in the morning in Moscow that my horse is being loaded on a trailer by someone I don't know who's going to take him for Joe Biden.
That was what they were saying.
They were taking him for Joe.
Like some, so luckily he's safe.
But I mean, it's been sort of relentless.
It's been, you know, and I know public figures, you know, I don't consider myself a public figure, but other public figures do get harassed like that.
But when you're a regular citizen like I am, it's it's really daunting, especially if we don't have the resources to protect yourself, right?
And which I didn't.
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Do you expect to be able to see your daughter anytime soon?