美國總統拜登前助理、前參議院員工里德 (Tara Reade) 曾控訴遭拜登侵犯,且因收到威脅訊息被感壓迫,決定逃到俄羅斯,並稱「感受到久違的安全感,還感受到被傾聽與被尊重」。
2020 年拜登競選民主黨總統候選人提名時,里德曾出面揭露, 1993 年在參議院走廊被拜登推倒牆上,還被伸手進裙裡侵犯,但此事遭到拜登本人與團隊一概否認。由於拜登否認犯行,里德再次上訴,卻收到「條條大路通向拜登」的威脅訊息。
據《衛星通訊社》報導,里德透露,「來俄羅斯是一個很艱難決定」,自己不是衝動的人,花了很多時間思考投奔俄羅斯,這個決定「我感覺被保護與安全圍繞著」,若在美國只剩兩條路「真的不想回家就是走進牢籠或可能被殺」。因此決定逃奔俄羅斯。
Tara Reade announced today that she was defecting to Russia, after Matt Gaetz told her that he was Worried About Her Safety in the United States“I did talk to US congressman Matt Gaetz. I have not concealed anything. I told him I was in Moscow, Russia, and I told him why. And… pic.twitter.com/LD5aGpFDSN
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