COMMENT: Dominique Strauss-Kahn feared that an opponent would pay $ 1 million to a woman to claim that he tried to rape her. Whether his allegations are substantive or not, his fears have, to an extent, been played out.
Note that, in addition to the fact that he called for a world currency in February to allay the world’s economic difficulties and replace the dollar as the reserve currency of choice, Strauss-Kahn was widely viewed as the most potent challenger to Nicholas Sarkozy to become President of France.
Certainly, Strauss-Kahn has enemies. Did they pay for the rape allegation, as he has claimed?
EXCERPT: Dominique Strauss-Kahn feared that one of his political opponents would pay a woman more than $1million to say he raped her, it emerged today.
The extraordinary revelation emerged in Paris as the International Monetary Fund head remained in a New York police cell accused of launching a sex attack on a hotel maid.
A writer in the French capital has also come forward to say that the 62-year-old attempted to rape her a decade ago. . .
. . . Discussing his plans to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy as Socialist candidate for the presidency in 2012, he said he imagined ‘a woman who had been raped in a car park and who was offered between €500,000 and €1,000,000 to make up such a story.’
Because he was the clear favourite to beat Mr Sarkozy, Strauss-Kahn feared he would be subjected to a smear campaign by the President and his Interior Minister, Glaude Gueant. . . .
. . . Such theories were bolstered by the fact that the first person to break the news of Strauss-Kahn’s arrest was an activist in Mr Sarkozy’s UMP party – who apparently knew about the scandal before it happened.
Jonathan Pinet, a politics student, tweeted the news just before the New York Police Department made it public, although he said that he simply had a ‘friend’ working at the Sofitel where the attack was said to have happened.
The first person to re-tweet Mr Pinet was Arnaud Dassier, a spin doctor who had previously publicised details of multi-millionaire Strauss-Kahn’s luxurious lifestyle in a bid to dent his left wing credentials.
Strauss-Kahn could just as easily been set up by rivals inside the IMF, as well as by rivals within the French political establishment.
Michelle Sabban, a senior councillor for the greater Paris region and a Strauss-Kahn loyalist said: ‘I am convinced it is an international conspiracy.’
She added: ‘It’s the IMF they wanted to decapitate, not so much the Socialist primary candidate. . . .
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Well........I’ve also noticed that one Ian Santiago claimed, on here, that this could’ve perhaps begun to benefit Marine Le Pen and the crook outfit known as the National Front her father Jean-Marie started back in the early ’70s.
If this is all true, Dave, then it’s looking more and more like Msr. Strauss-Kahn may very well have done something which the world crime network REALLY did NOT appreciate.
As imperfect, incompetent, and perhaps even crime-ridden as the IMF may be.......it’s replacement may be even worse, TBH.