The way this thing transpired----planning to take her by surprise, using force........... indicates someone who has very jaded sexual appetites. who can't get a thrill the normal way. He is a known womanizer and due to his status and wealth, someone who can have any woman he wants.
He obviously likes women who resist....a rapist's MO. He has done this before and been warned about this type of behavior. That's why he got hustled off to Riker's.....b/c of his history.
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Strauss Kahn may claim "consent" (or that he was set up) to save his sorry ***...... but the facts beg to differ.
There IS lots of physical evidence---DNA under her fingernails when she scratched him, blood on the bed, a paper trail indicating he had flim-flammed the hotel into thinking he had left.
Luxe hotels handle $3000 a night guests with kid gloves. There's a protocol----the help does not freely enter rooms at will. Apparently maids are not allowed to enter rooms until they are specifically told the guest has departed.
The hotel first sends in a bellman to cart off dishes, empty bottles, and the like BEFORE the maids go in to clean.
The victim had been told by the bellman that the guest had left....and got the OK to enter the room. But when she walked in, DSK was apparently hiding in the bathroom and ran out to attack her when he heard her come in.
From what we now know, it looks like HE set her up for rape.
They hustled him off to Rikers despite a high paid lawyer's plea........ b/c he's done this before and had been warned. Everyone in Paris has known for years he had something of a problem. Not many female journalists are prepared to interview him alone.
Thanks for posting a few salient facts as they are currently known -
The whole notion of this guy having been some how “set-up” flies in the face of his known history as a serial abuser of women.
{Juanita Broaddrick, etc, etc.... Opps.... - wrong abuser}