Bill Clinton: The Lewinsky Scandal

The Clinton’s are one of the most notable presidential families in American history; this name was associated with many affairs and events that cannot be forgotten by the Americans especially and the whole world generally. One of the most noteworthy incidents is The Lewinsky Scandal.

This news came down on the world like a thunderbolt, various stories were told, many rumors had spread, and a lot of information was known, whispers were well heard yet, the most reasonable one is that was told by Mandell and Chen

The affair began in November 1995, by Lewinsky’s account. Bill Clinton’s presidency was a maddening mix of brilliance, scandals, and missteps that included a failed attempt to enact health care reform. He began flirting with a young intern in his office during a government shutdown. it progressed to a series of events and spilled out early on the morning of January 18, 1998, on a gossip website called the Drudge Report (2016, 69)

Americans were waiting for explanations and defense from the president himself after this international disgrace. The first lady’s declaration was and still so far than what people expected, Moore (2018, para.4) mentioned that

Hillary was asked this week on CBS about this affair. After all, she stood at his side after he was impeached for lying. She was asked in retrospect if he should have stood down. “Absolutely not,” she said. “It wasn’t an abuse of power?” “No, no,’” she replied. Lewinsky was an adult. The context was different

Monica Lewinsky was not the only outrage in the former president’s life, yet she was an open door to a series of Bill Clinton’s scandals; After the white house intern accusation, many other victims appeared in the scandal’s yard. Lewinsky’s courage gave others the bravery to speak, expose, and accuse Bill Clinton by sexual harassment.

Hillary Clinton commented in her own book about this accident saying that ‘I will never truly understand what was going through my husband’s mind that day. All I know is that Bill told his staff and our friends the same story he told me: that nothing improper went on…’ (2003, 441) The ex-first lady was trying hard to clarify her husband’s position and to disguise categorically all these accusations. Whereas Bill Clinton after a period of denying finally “Bill himself agreed to testify before the grand jury, something that a U.S president had never done. When that news broke, Bill confessed to Hillary that he had, in fact, lied to her.” Blashfield (2011, 64) so that Hillary was so frustrated and stopped defending him immediately.

In 2018, Relman mentioned that four ladies accused him by the same mass were Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, and Leslie Millwee. Although Hillary Clinton tried to improve her husband’s image through his scandals were always used against her to unsettle her ambition.