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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Hahahahahaha...I love the last two pictures in your series!
But to me 'abuse of power' is "sleep with me if you want that promotion."
Abuse of position is fooling around in the workplace with a willing subordinate.
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“I Believe Monica!”
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Monica must’ve just figured out that Bill’s not going to leave Hillary to marry her after all.
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Zackly!
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Post 24. .......... I hope she spent some of her ill gotten gains on a tooth.
Miss Lewinski grossly over-estimated her gold-digging hooker skills. lol
Obviously, PDJT is a fan of Seinfeld.
That sounds likely, I have only seen one episode, so I didn’t get the reference! Pretty funny!
Actually, her question is a good one, and revealing.
Where ARE the investigations of all of the allegations against Donald Trump that were made before the election?
I mean, a few of them have been shown to be rediculous, the worst being the left trying to make his ex-wife into a victim, when she denied it.
But given how clearly the left can generate these charges and evidence, and given a media that is eager to destroy him, why havent’ we seen any articles about corroberation of the stories told against him?
It’s almost like they had a purpose, and that purpose failed, and they have been shelved.
Clinton, Weinstein, and Moore all have a very similar ugly face.
Virtue signaling convinces the left of its own unimpeachable morals. When push comes to shove, it rejects guilt for any of its wrongdoing and attributes such allegations to conspiracy theories.
Peter Daou, a Democratic strategist and former advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, tweeted on Monday that Ford will be "attacked, smeared, and demonized" and that people must "BELIEVE WOMEN."
The witch and the rapist had been through the ‘sluts and nuts’ bit to the point they had it down like an art form... they planned on destroying Monica AND her mother... both Clintons being totally aware that he was doing Monica...
Who knows maybe in another 20 years the liberal ‘elites’ will discover that Bill Clinton also raped women and had the Arkansas police escort his victims to the Governor's mansion... AND yeah this was YEARS after the women's movement. Billy and Hilly knew the damage they were doing. Didn't Maureen Dowd defend Billy?
Too bad no one knows where George Stephanopoulos is ... he could tell the stories - the truth...
I think I may see what you are getting at. You are focusing on the possibility that Monica was not a victim. I'll get to that next.
First let's focus on the real "victims", the people of the United States. We (not actually including me) hired Bill Clinton to do a job. We supplied a workplace and authorized employees to be hired and that included unpaid interns. A reasonable expectation would be that sex in the workplace would be prohibited and would be a firing offense, especially sexual activity between a married senior executive and an unpaid intern. With the possible exception of Nevada brothels, I am not aware of any exceptions.
By failing to fire the offending parties, Bill Clinton abused the power we gave him to manage a workplace. The American people are the victims of this abuse of power.
Now on to Lewinsky. In her March 2018 interview with Vanity Fair Lewinsky said: "There are even some people who feel my White House experiences don't have a place in this movement [the #MeToo movement], as what transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognize that it constituted a gross abuse of power" ... "He was my boss. He was the most powerful man on the planet. He was 27 years my senior, with enough life experiences to know better. He was, at the time, at the pinnacle of his career, while I was in my first job out of college."
We haven't even talked about Clinton arranging to get Lewinsky another job in exchange for her cooperation or the obstruction committed by Clinton and others in hiding and lying about the affair in order to deny Paula Jones her day in court.
Is there proof that William Clinton told Monica Lewinsky that he was President of the United States before their dalliance commenced? Perhaps she did not know, and thought he was the White House janitor.
20 flr
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