I guess the alternative is to just quit prosecuting rape cases because rapists can't get a fair trial. Maybe we could put that on the ballot.
Based on my reading (from Swedish newspapers at the time of the accusations)....I would say that Assange was on some “hiding-tour” where different people were giving him a week in their house or apartment in order to “protect” him. They all believed in his crusade.
Some Swedes (not those on the accusing side)...described his behavior like some secret-agent or James Bond-style misfit. Women were attracted to him in some way.
The fairness angle hasn’t been explored enough. I do think if you lined up all the Swedish women that he enjoyed the company of.....prior to these two women in the accusation area....there would be more than a dozen ladies who didn’t think it was rape. That could play into the court case. But at the rate of things....I think he will be in the embassy for another year or two.
Course, I also think that Trump will say that there are no hard feelings and they won’t go after him....so he might step out of the embassy by Feb of next year and face what the Swede court might dish out.