Attorney Douglas Wigdor said his decision to drop Tara Reade as a client is not a judgment of her claim’s truthfulness
Photo: Donald Thompson/AP/Shutterstock A day after Politico reported that Tara Reade may have lied under oath about earning an undergraduate degree, her attorney, Douglas Wigdor, announced that his firm no longer represents her as a client. In a statement, Wigdor said that he still believes former vice-president Joe Biden assaulted Reade in the early 1990s, and says that the firm made its decision on May 20, a day before Politico published its report.
It continued: “We also believe that to a large extent Ms. Reade has been subjected to a double standard in terms of the media coverage she has received. Much of what has been written about Ms. Reade is not probative of whether then-Senator Biden sexually assaulted her, but rather is intended to victim-shame and attack her credibility on unrelated and irrelevant matters. We genuinely wish Ms. Reade well and hope that she, as a survivor, is treated fairly.
Though reports in Business Insider and The Intercept have surfaced important corroborative evidence for aspects of Reade’s story, Politico’s story is damaging. The outlet reported that while Reade had claimed that she completed a bachelor’s degree at Antioch University in Seattle, a spokesperson for the school said that she never graduated. Defense attorneys in California told Politico that they were reviewing cases in which Reade appeared as an expert witness on domestic violence.
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