Tara Reade, a former U.S. Senate aide to Joe Biden who has accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee of sexual assault, has hired high-powered Manhattan attorney Douglas Wigdor, as she prepares to share her story in a nationally televised interview.

Wigdor said in a statement Thursday afternoon that his firm believes that ”every survivor of sexual assault has the right to competent legal counsel, and we will represent Ms. Reade zealously, just as we would any other victim of sexual violence.”

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