‘I’ve been married to a communist, and I’ve been married to a capitalist…’

“And neither one of them would take out the garbage”:

So we’re expected to believe that American intelligence enlisted Ardin, known as a radical feminist and animal-rights activist, as a honey trap, instructing her to file a rape claim so flimsy that the prosecutor had to retract it within hours.

The probable truth looks a lot more prosaic. More likely, this was a sexual romp gone wrong, and a case of two women, as well as the police force, applying a wide interpretation of what constitutes sexual assault.

Reviewing the relevant police files, Swedish magazine Resumé recounted that a seminar volunteer and Assange went on a date, then allegedly had sex twice, the second time without protection, and afterwards he did not answer her calls.