Monica Lewinsky says Bill Clinton should’ve resigned from office after affair in new podcast interview
Monica Lewinsky believes President Bill Clinton should’ve resigned from the Oval Office as Congress voted to impeach him for lying about his affair with the then-22-year-old.
“I think that the right way to handle a situation like that would’ve been to probably say it was nobody’s business and to resign,” Lewinsky told “Call Her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper in the episode released Tuesday night.
Lewinsky, who interned in the West Wing between 1995 and 1997, suggested Clinton should’ve been truthful about the pair’s alleged sexual relationship as a solution to finish out his second term amid the scandal.
“Or to find a way to stay in office that was not lying and not throwing a young person who is just starting out in the world under the bus,” Lewinsky, 51, added.
Lewinsky felt she was being too lenient with the former president and the magnitude of what a resignation could’ve meant.
“At the same time I hear myself say that and it’s like, ‘OK, but we’re also talking about the most powerful office in the world,'” she said. “I don’t want to be naive either.”
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A report for the House Judiciary Committee by independent counsel Ken Starr found Clinton and Lewinsky engaged in a sexual relationship in the Oval Office before the president lied about it under oath in front of a federal grand jury.
The inquiry came out of a 1994 sexual harassment lawsuit from Pamela Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, who claimed Clinton propositioned her and exposed himself inside a hotel room in Little Rock while he was governor in 1991.
During the court case for Jones’ allegations, Starr found Clinton had lied under oath when discussing his relationship with Lewinsky, which was found to be grounds for impeachment.
The president was brought up on charges of lying under oath and obstruction of justice.
The Senate ultimately voted to acquit Clinton in February 1999.
Clinton said he never thought about resigning from office. MORE......
