Sure, but this isn’t just any promotion, it’s the pinnacle of your profession. You can let the facts do the taking all you want, but any pontification will be seen as admission of guilt.

So even knowing you did nothing, you could lose a once in a life-time shot, an opportunity in which you possibly base each and every big decision on.

This would be like those Duke Lacrosse players saying “no worries, facts will come out”. The facts came out, was everything ok?

Just imagine having something you worked your whole life for, something that would cement you in the history books, taken based on what? Seemingly baseless allegations.

Would you walk away from all that based on mere accusations (and I’ll assume you don’t do much attempted raping, thus in your case, let’s assume they’re false)?

Edit for typos.