American woman who blamed during the 2020 election campaign Joe Biden for sexual assault in the 1990s, applied for Russian citizenship on Tuesday.

Tara Reid, 59, appeared in a video broadcast by Sputnik along with Russian MP Maria Butina, who is in jail in the US on espionage charges.

Reed explained that she went to Moscow simply as a tourist, but there she felt “safe for the first time in a long time.” She decided to stay in Russia after a Republican politician told her she was in danger.

“I promise to be a good citizen”

“I want to ask for Russian citizenship” from President Vladimir Putin, she said, promising to be a “good citizen.”

In early 2020, Reed alleged that Biden, then a presidential candidate, raped her in the halls of Congress in 1993, when he was a senator and she was working for him.

The American president vehemently denied the accusation. In addition, several inconsistencies appeared in Reade’s complaint, such as the complaint she said she filed with Congress after the incident was not found.

An American who claims to be an expert in geopolitics said yesterday that she received death threats after her allegations were made public.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}