Seriously, I love this. "There was no predatory intent."
I was just...and adult male. She was....a juvenile. And...I occupied a position of trust and power in relation to said minor. So, I had no predatory intent, I just totally lucked into the "predator-victim" dynamic, why are y'all hating on me for having such good luck?
And big-picture, the right has revealed that being sexually predatory and degrading to women is ingrained in their DNA in recent years. The Baylor rape scandals prompted some of this discussion -- how Baylor's first conservative baptist inclination was to blame the victims (what does she expect, hanging around....those types, and, ummm, let's not make any good Christian men lose their jobs because women are sluts, okay?), etc. Women are subservient to men, exist for men to do with as they please, and there's no age limit on that. If a powerful man wants any woman to do anything, the important thing is that we acknowledge that the man's status of power is a blessing from God, and is as God intended, and who are we to argue with God's intent? And it goes on, and on, and on. Conservative pastors, MAGA land, etc.
No, it's not UNIQUE to conservatives (as many have noted above, there are 100% guaranteed many more liberal/Dem types in the Epstein files doing similar predatory evil shit). But the common thread is "men of power can do what they want," and that ethos isn't just allowed in the conservative movement, it is foundational, lionized, and preached as a social good.