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		</div><p>Tara Reade, a former Senate employee who alleged Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, is being represented by a prominent lawyer and political donor to President Donald Trump’s 2016 Republican campaign.</p>
<p>Douglas Wigdor told The Associated Press he was not currently being paid for his work with Ms Reade.</p>
<p>His firm also denied there was a political motivation for his decision to represent Ms Reade in her accusations against Mr Trump’s presumptive Democratic opponent in the November US election.</p>
<p>“<i>We have decided to take this matter on because every survivor has the right to competent counsel,”</i> the firm said in a statement.</p>
<p>Ms Reade has said for weeks that she was struggling to find a lawyer willing to represent her.</p>
<p>She has accused Mr Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, when she worked on his Senate staff. He has denied her allegation.</p>
<p>On Thursday, Ms Reade said she wanted Mr Biden to be “held accountable” and called on him to drop out of the presidential race.</p>
<p>Her comments came in her first on-camera interview, conducted by former Fox News and NBC News journalist Megyn Kelly.</p>
<p>Pressed by a Florida television station about Ms Reade’s comment, Mr Biden reiterated his denial of the allegation.</p>
<p><i>“The truth is what matters,”</i> he told Bay News 9. “<i>In this case, the truth is these claims are flat-out false.”</i></p>
<p>Mr Wigdor is well known for his work on prominent cases related to sexual harassment and assault.</p>
<p>He represented six women who accused Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, of sexual misconduct.</p>
<p>In 2018, he spoke out in the media defending Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.</p>
<p>Mr Wigdor has been a supporter of Mr Trump and provided about 55,000 dollars (£44,000) in campaign contributions in 2016, according to Federal Election Commission records.</p>
<p>He has not donated to either Mr Trump’s or Mr Biden’s 2020 campaign.</p>
<p>Mr Wigdor said he plans to help Ms Reade in her dealings with the media and any independent investigations into her allegations that might occur.</p>
<p>He said the two have not discussed bringing a lawsuit based on her claims, but he did not rule that out.</p>
<p>Mr Wigdor suggested Ms Reade’s earlier struggles to find a lawyer to represent her were the result of “<i>politics</i>”.</p>
<p>“<i>I think highly of a lot of these people,”</i> he said. “<i>These are my friends and colleagues, people who I respect, but they tend to be Democrats or liberals, and they were not interested, because of that, in representing Tara Reade.”</i></p>
<p>Ms Reade first spoke out about her alleged interactions with Mr Biden in 2019, telling journalists he had touched her inappropriately while she worked on his Senate staff.</p>
<p>She came forward in 2020, around the time Mr Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee, with new allegations of assault.</p>
<p>She says she did not initially disclose the assault allegations because she was scared of backlash and was still coming to terms with what had happened to her.</p>
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