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[mr_lebowski]

34. I'm just going to throw this out there ...

You combine these two parts of the story:
1) she idolized him, and
2) she 'felt like there was nothing she could do'

Is it possible it happened, but Biden's impression at the time was that this was a moment of consensual passion? Is 'nothing she could do' synonymous with 'she gave no sign whatsoever of objecting to what he was doing?'

I'm not trying to excuse something I wasn't there to see (and certainly not saying anything like this even happened at all), but this would be far from the first time that a man's impression about something like this was simply and honestly incorrect.

Or ... became incorrect in the other person's mind over time, after reflection.

To be clear, if multiple women were saying this same sort of thing, I would be much less likely to entertain this possibility.

If there were, say, 19 women, for example.