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Monica Lewinsky: Bill Clinton told me I could 'probably sign an affidavit to get out of' being a witness for Paula Jones
ZitatMonica Lewinsky implied that former President Bill Clinton suggested she deny their extramarital affair after she was named as a potential witness in Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against the then-sitting president.
Lewinsky recalled this week during an episode of the A&E documentary series "The Clinton Affair" that Clinton phoned her at 2:30 a.m. one morning in late 1997 to tell the ex-White House intern, with whom he had instigated a sexual relationship in 1995 when she was 22 years old, that he had seen she was included on the witness list for Jones' civil suit against him. Jones was an Arkansas state employee while Clinton was governor.
"I was petrified. I was frantic about my family, and this becoming public. Thankfully, Bill helped me lock myself back from that and he said I could probably sign an affidavit to get out of it, and he didn't even know if a 100 percent I would be subpoenaed," Lewinsky said, according to the Daily Mail.
However, Lewinsky said that Clinton never specifically told her to lie. He also did not encourage her to tell the truth either, she added.
Anyone else been watching this series? Eighteen years after the Democrats used every technique at their disposal to thwart this investigation and to besmirch Kenneth Starr, a decent man, the truth is beginning to emerge. And it won't make an ounce of difference.
"Eighteen years after the Democrats used every technique at their disposal to thwart this investigation and to besmirch Kenneth Starr, a decent man, the truth is beginning to emerge. And it won't make an ounce of difference."
Sad and frustrating
Illegitimi non Carborundum
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it - Orwell