Posted on 10/15/2018 10:14:51 AM PDT by simpson96
Hillary Clinton has defended her husband, Bill Clinton, over his affair with Monica Lewinsky by directly contradicting Lewinsky's characterization of what happened.
In 1995, when Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern, she had multiple sexual encounters with the then-president, which he later lied under oath about.
After the affair became public, Lewinsky was targeted by pundits belonging to both parties and reported feeling bullied to the point of feeling suicidal.
Back in March, a few months into the #MeToo movement of women coming forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, mostly against powerful men, Lewinsky wrote that she had been moved to tears and deeply empathized with the accusers.
"What transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognize that it constituted a gross abuse of power," she wrote in Vanity Fair.
But during an interview on "CBS Sunday Morning," the former first lady gave a different version of events.
"In retrospect, do you think Bill should've resigned in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal?" the CBS correspondent Tony Dokoupil asked her.
"Absolutely not," Clinton said.
"It wasn't an abuse of power?" Dokoupil continued.
"No, no," Clinton said.
Clinton then redirected the conversation toward President Donald Trump and the numerous accusations of sexual misconduct and assault against him. Lewinsky "was an adult," Clinton said, continuing: "But let me ask you this: Where's the investigation of the current incumbent against whom numerous allegations have been made?"
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“Anyone who believes in sexual harassment guidelines should have seen that the disparity of power between Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was one of the most grotesque ever in the history of sex crime. He’s a sex criminal!” (Camille Paglia)
Bill Clinton had so little self control that he couldnt set up a rendezvous.
He just dropped his pants in a hallway and told her to service him there.
In The White House.
The Peoples House.
That displays such a lack of respect for her and the citizens of The United States.
And then he lied about it.
Like he was 13 years old.
"Yes, I did in fact smoke that cigar afterwards. But I didn't inhale."
You've never used a $50 illegal, Cuban cigar, to perform anal sex on one of your co-worker subordinates?
I wonder if he made her smoke it, after the fact?
Where is the deviance? S/Off.
While that may be true, if it was any run of the mill CEO, they would’ve been out on their ass.
Not 1/2 as bad as what he was doing on the phone while doing this to her. The pos was discussing troop movements. He was ordering our sons and daughters and fathers and mothers possibly to their deaths while getting blown.
So the next time someone says it was just a bj, hit them with that little fact.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Or not.
Every Rat woman over 50 will suddenly remember what a great guy the POS was, especially for staying with his wife so long.
The same ones who gushed about his “charisma” 25 years ago.
She doesn’t get it. It would only have been abuse of power if it was a republican.
Democrats can’t abuse power, because they are the righteous.
The whole sexual harrassmwnt thing (like the war on women) was a phony constuct to take out republicans, Clarence Thomas, Bob Packwood, etc.
Therefore, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, etc. were not abusers.
Bill (B.J.) Clinton will never look like a dignified former president. You can line up all the living ex-presidents (including Obama), but B.J. will always elicit a bit of a chuckle as the “horndog president”. Must suck to be seen as a joke for the rest of one’s life.
Keep talking, Hillary, lest people forget how utterly sickening those years were.
The man was a serial predator who used his power to get sex. That's why he assumed Paula Jones would service him at the drop of his trousers.
This is great! Let’s keep this story in the news.
LOL!!! Yeah, Pres. Bill Clinton, ‘The most powerful man on earth’, could only end up with a spitter!
Trump was well known for having his own time when he got back on the plane during the campaign. They would get a bunch of specific newspapers, and put them on a table near a comfortable chair he always used, and when he came back, he took some "alone" time to read the newspapers, and everyone tried to avoid bothering him.
One day after a campaign appearance, Trump came on the plane, went to his chair, picked up a paper and began reading.
There were two staffers who were involved in some kind of love triangle, and one of the staffers had gotten upset and left the appearance early. When Trump came on the plane, he saw her and asked how she liked the speech, and she said she hadn't seen it because she left early. Trump didn't ask why, and sat down and began reading.
The other female staffer came on, and they began having a heated discussion that got louder and louder, until it was impossible to ignore. Other people began to nervously look at Trump and each other as the volume rose...Trump liked his private time uninterrupted.
Finally, as the two female staffers were heatedly exchanging loud words, Trump finally looked up from his newspaper, impassively took in the situation, then yelled out:
"CAT FIGHT!"
And went back to reading his paper as if nothing was going on! There is something that just slays me about that! (I guess it sounds like what a normal guy might do...)
Would that be the "snapping thong" exception to the prohibition against sex in the workplace?
Who, besides BJ Clinton, would not have been fired for such a thing?
I'm pretty sure that Monica could have obtained an unpaid intern position at lots of places. The reason she chose the White House is because of the power of the Presidency. That was Clinton's bait. Landing Monica was an abuse of that power.
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