Hillary Clinton Says Bill Clinton's Affair With 22-Year-Old Monica Lewinsky Was Not an Abuse of Power
During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning this weekend, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton continued to defend her husband's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. When asked if Bill Clinton should have stepped down as president in the wake of his affair with the then-White House intern, Hillary said, "Absolutely not."
When pressed and asked if the relationship was an abuse of power, Hillary said, "No," and said that at the time Lewinsky was an adult. (Lewinsky was 22 and Bill was 49.)
Hillary then deflected and turned the conversation over to President Donald Trump and the sexual assault allegations against him: "Let me ask you this. Where's the investigation of the current incumbent against whom numerous allegations have been made and which he dismisses, denies, and ridicules?"
Back in 1998, Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice in relation to the affair; he was then acquitted during a Senate trial.
Earlier this year, in the midst of the #MeToo movement, Lewinsky wrote about the scandal for Vanity Fair. She said, "Now, at 44, I’m beginning (just beginning) to consider the implications of the power differentials that were so vast between a president and a White House intern. I’m beginning to entertain the notion that in such a circumstance the idea of consent might well be rendered moot... He was my boss. He was the most powerful man on the planet. He was 27 years my senior, with enough life experience to know better. He was, at the time, at the pinnacle of his career, while I was in my first job out of college."
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