This is just me, but I think Monica is lucky that Tripp exposed the whole thing, or Monica would be just another anonymous victim of the DC crime-world.
Adultery is bad, inexcusable, but to mess around with a powerful man is just asking to be killed. There are people who sincerely believe that the Kennedy family killed Marilyn and there are Kennedy mistresses who have ended up dead conveniently to the benefit of the Kennedy family.
He shouldn’t have messed with her, but if he was pressuring her, she should have quit the job and gotten herself out.
She was young, stupid and starry eyed. She actually believed that Billy boy loved her and was going to leave Hillary for her.
He was the President and a grown man. He should have had nothing to do with her.