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Originally Posted by GearHeadDave
The only reason why Clinton survived impeachment is that finally, he had to come clean and admit to the lie. The fact that Clinton admitted guilt (even under duress) puts him miles above Trump. He knew that to continue the charade, not only would he lose the Presidency, he would be causing enormous damage to the USA, and he was not willing to go there.
Do you really think Trump will ever admit guilt? DJT is one sick puppy that is so egomaniacal that he would rather see the whole country burn than admit a fault or a lie.
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"The only reason why Clinton survived impeachment is that finally, he had to come clean and admit to the lie."
B.S.
The senate was controlled by the dems and they were NOT going go for impeachment EVER.
"The fact that Clinton admitted guilt"
". He knew that to continue the charade,"
NOT until the blue dress was discovered,
He DENIED EVERYTHING for a sold YEAR and right up to when the dress was disclosed.
He even LIED IN a COURT OF LAW, so quit trying to distort his record.
Check out the dates and i still do NOT see an apology as you claim.
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Allegations of sexual contact
Monica Lewinsky in May 1997
Lewinsky stated that she had sexual encounters with Bill Clinton on nine occasions from November 1995 to March 1997. According to her published schedule,
First Lady Hillary Clinton was at the White House for at least some portion of seven of those days.
[15]
In April 1996, Lewinsky's superiors relocated her job to the
Pentagon, because they felt that she was spending too much time around Clinton.
[16] According to his autobiography, then-
United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson was asked by the White House in 1997 to interview Lewinsky for a job on his staff at the UN. Richardson did so, and offered her a position, which she declined.
[17] The American Spectator alleged that Richardson knew more about the Lewinsky affair than he declared to the
grand jury.
[18]
Lewinsky confided in
Linda Tripp about her relationship with Clinton. Tripp persuaded Lewinsky to save the gifts that Clinton had given her, and not to dry clean a
semen-stained blue dress. Tripp reported their conversations to literary agent
Lucianne Goldberg, who advised her to secretly record them,
[19] which Tripp began doing in September 1997. Goldberg also urged Tripp to take the tapes to
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and bring them to the attention of people working on the
Paula Jones case.
[20] In the fall of 1997, Goldberg began speaking to reporters (including
Michael Isikoff of
Newsweek) about the tapes.
[21]
In the Paula Jones case, Lewinsky had submitted an
affidavit that denied any physical relationship with Clinton. In January 1998, she attempted to persuade Tripp to commit perjury in the Jones case. Instead, Tripp gave the tapes to Starr, who was investigating the
Whitewater controversy and other matters. Starr was now armed with evidence of Lewinsky's admission of a physical relationship with Clinton, and he broadened the investigation to include Lewinsky and her possible
perjury in the Jones case.
Denial and subsequent admission
Remarks including response to Monica Lewinsky scandal (January 26, 1998)
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Bill Clinton making a presentation that ends with a short commentary on the
Monica Lewinsky scandal. The presentation is known for the quote "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." (6:20)
Remarks including response to Monica Lewinsky scandal (January 26, 1998)
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Problems playing these files? See media help. News of the scandal first broke on January 17, 1998, on the
Drudge Report,
[22] which reported that
Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter
Michael Isikoff exposing the affair. The story broke in the mainstream press on January 21 in
The Washington Post.
[23] The story swirled for several days and, despite swift denials from Clinton, the clamor for answers from the White House grew louder. On January 26, President Clinton, standing with his wife, spoke at a White House press conference, and issued a forceful denial in which he said:
[24] Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you.[25]
Pundits debated whether Clinton would address the allegations in his
State of the Union Address. Ultimately, he chose not to mention them. Hillary Clinton remained supportive of her husband throughout the scandal. On January 27, in an appearance on
NBC's
Today she said, "The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this
vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president."
For the next several months and through the summer, the media debated whether an affair had occurred and whether Clinton had lied or obstructed justice, but nothing could be definitively established beyond the taped recordings because Lewinsky was unwilling to discuss the affair or testify about it. On July 28, 1998, a substantial delay after the public break of the scandal, Lewinsky received
transactional immunity in exchange for
grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with Clinton.
[26] She also turned over a
semen-stained blue dress (that Linda Tripp had encouraged her to save without
dry cleaning) to the Starr investigators, thereby providing unambiguous
DNA evidence that could prove the relationship despite Clinton's official denials.
[27]
Clinton admitted in taped grand jury testimony on August 17, 1998, that he had engaged in an "improper physical relationship" with Lewinsky. That evening he gave a nationally televised statement admitting that his relationship with Lewinsky was "not appropriate".[28]"
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewinsky_scandal
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