Former President Bill Clinton addressed the death of former prosecutor Ken Starr on Sunday in an awkward reaction.
Starr died a week ago at the age of 76. The attorney was known for leading the investigations into Whitewater and Clinton&#8217;s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
&#8220;[Starr] never filed a charge on Whitewater but put your presidency, your second term, upside down,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria said to Clinton. &#8220;Do you have any thoughts? Any reflection?&#8221;
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“Well, I read the obituary, and I realized that his family loved him,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;And I think that’s something to be grateful for, and when your life is over, that’s all there is to say. But I was taught not to talk about the people that — I have nothing to say.&#8221;
Lewinsky, a former White House intern whose affair with Clinton became public during his presidency, offered her own response to Starr&#8217;s death last week in a Twitter post.
&#8220;As I’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about Ken Starr bring up complicated feelings,&#8221; Lewinsky wrote. &#8220;But of more importance, is that i imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him.&#8221;
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as i’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings… but of more importance, is that i imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him.
&mdash; Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1569804404928258049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Lewinsky later became the executive producer of the 2021 HBO Max documentary &#8220;15 Minutes of Shame,&#8221; which investigated America&#8217;s culture of public shaming. She also served as a producer for &#8220;American Crime Story: Impeachment&#8221; on FX, which highlighted her relationship with the former president detailed in the Starr Report.
The 1998 Starr Report was a document presented by the attorney to Congress that included sensitive details regarding the relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky and argued for the president&#8217;s impeachment. Clinton was later impeached but acquitted by the Senate.
In 2020, Starr served on former President Donald Trump&#8217;s legal team during his first impeachment trial. The attorney argued against Trump&#8217;s impeachment based on allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
“Instead of a once-in-a-century phenomenon, which it had been, presidential impeachment has become a weapon to be wielded against one’s political opponent,” Starr <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/480115-starr-makes-trump-team-debut-we-are-living-in-an-age-of-impeachment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Senate during his words on behalf of Trump.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ken-starr-former-federal-judge-and-clinton-investigator-dies-at-76" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Starr died in Houston at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center of complications from surgery, according to a statement from his family.
“We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving Father and Grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first,” Starr&#8217;s son Randall said.
“The love, energy, endearing sense of humor, and fun-loving interest Dad exhibited to each of us was truly special, and we cherish the many wonderful memories we were able to experience with him. He is now with his Lord and Savior,&#8221; he added.

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‘His Family Loved Him’: Bill Clinton Breaks His Silence On Ken Starr’s Death With Awkward Reaction

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Ken Starr, a former federal judge who later led the investigation that resulted in former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Bill Clinton&#8217;s</a> impeachment, died on Tuesday. He was 76.
Starr died in Houston at Baylor St. Luke&#8217;s Medical Center of complications from surgery, according to a statement from his family.
Starr was appointed as a judge to the federal courts by former President Ronald Reagan and he served as Solicitor General under George H.W. Bush.
Starr was best known for his role as independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation into the Clintons, which started out focusing on real estate investments and ended up with Clinton&#8217;s impeachment after the House charged him with perjury and obstruction of justice for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
At 37, the former federal judge became the youngest person to ever serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and many thought Starr would eventually end up on the Supreme Court. Starr&#8217;s investigation of Clinton, however, likely ended any hopes of his appointment to the nation&#8217;s highest court.
During the investigation, the White House <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-bill-clinton-impeachments-district-of-columbia-obituaries-214ac9a73c640f9caf745e50cd2b6f83" target="_blank" rel="noopener">painted</a> Starr as a right-wing fanatic who was investigating Clinton at the behest of Republicans. “The assaults took a toll,” Starr said of the Clinton administration&#8217;s attempts to taint his work. “A duly authorized federal law enforcement investigation came to be characterized as yet another political game. Law became politics by other means.”
Starr is survived by his wife of 52 years, Alice Mendell Starr. He is also survived by his three children, Randall P. Starr, Carolyn S. Doolittle, and Cynthia S. Roemer, and nine grandchildren: Grace, Christiana, Hewson, and Sandhana Doolittle; William and Charlotte Starr; and Sienna, Madison, and Colton Roemer, the family said. Starr is also survived by his sister, Billie Jeayne Reynolds, and brother, Jerry Starr.
&#8220;We are deeply saddened with the loss of our dear and loving Father and Grandfather, whom we admired for his prodigious work ethic, but who always put his family first,&#8221; Randall said. &#8220;The love, energy, endearing sense of humor, and fun-loving interest Dad exhibited to each of us was truly special, and we cherish the many wonderful memories we were able to experience with him. He is now with his Lord and Savior.&#8221;
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Beyoncé’s album “Renaissance,” released just three weeks ago, has already been through many iterations.
First, there was the “ableist slur” controversy. News about “Renaissance” was almost overshadowed by Beyoncé’s inclusion of one controversial word on “Heated.” This word was so bad that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/arts/music/beyonce-lyrics-heated-changed.html">major</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/02/beyonce-spaz-slur/">news</a> <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/beyonce-renaissance-lyrics-ableist-slur-removed.html">outlets</a> didn’t even include it in their headlines about the drama. The offending lyric? “Spazzin’ on that a**, spazz on that a**.” 
No, the legacy media hasn’t suddenly become concerned with sexual content in pop songs. The word in question was “spaz.” Disability rights advocates complained, and Beyoncé’s team swiftly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harmful-way-beyonce-says-shell-remove-lyric-from-album-following-backlash">issued</a> a statement saying, “​​The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.” (Ironically, this exact drama played out a couple of months ago with Lizzo, who also <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-language-police-are-after-lizzo">chose</a> to have a song rewritten after backlash over the same word.)
Controversy over, listeners could now enjoy the queen of pop’s new album free from problematic content. Just kidding. “Renaissance” is full of music samples, brimming with the influence of “queer” and transgender artists, much to the excitement of <a href="https://ew.com/music/beyonce-renaissance-tribute-to-black-queer-culture-ball-scene/">entertainment writers</a>. But when Beyoncé indirectly referenced Kelis’ hit song “Milkshake” on “Energy,” the singer complained.
As BBC reports, both songs were <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62405039">updated</a> on streaming services to remove their respective offenses “just five days after ‘Renaissance’ was released.”
Given Beyoncé’s apparent flexibility with her own music, it’s no surprise that yet another person went looking for a lyric change. This time, it was Monica Lewinsky. 
Tweeting out an article about the “spaz” controversy, Lewinsky <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1554129582755721216">wrote</a>, “uhmm, while we’re at it… #Partition.”
In Beyoncé’s song “Partition” (yes, the one from 2013), the singer crudely references former President Bill Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky, saying, “He Monica Lewinski&#8217;d all on my gown.” A year later, Lewinsky objected to the lyric in an article for Vanity Fair, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-speaks">writing</a>, “Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we’re verbing, I think you meant ‘Bill Clinton’d all on my gown,’ not ‘Monica Lewinsky’d.’”
But that was the early 2010s, an age in which artists weren’t cowed by Cancel Culture into changing their music every time someone got offended, rightly or not. (Now, thanks to internet culture and the explosion of streaming over CDs, it’s easier than ever to quietly acquiesce, edit, and pretend the drama never happened.)
Nearly a decade after “Partition” came out, Lewinsky is now hoping to get the lyric change she wants, and why shouldn’t she? It’s almost too easy to act as a censor these days.
But Beyoncé, Lizzo, and other artists who change their lyrics at the behest of their fans have put themselves in a difficult position. Whether they meant to or not, they are now in the business of explicitly choosing winners and losers in their lyrics. Certain people or groups are allowed to complain and be listened to. Others just have to suck it up.
It was always the case that you could complain about song lyrics. Only recently has it been so easy for your complaint to be heard, accepted, and used to implement an accommodation to your preference within a matter of days.
And there are plenty more lyrics on “Renaissance” to which listeners might object. After bragging about “votin&#8217; out forty-five” on “Energy,” the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-news-blog/2012/dec/21/beyonce-jamie-foxx-antigun-campaign">gun-control advocate</a> sings, “I just entered the country with Derringers / &#8216;Cause them Karens just turned into terrorists.” Where are the protests about gun control? For that matter, where are the protests from Karens?
If Beyoncé (or her team, who’s really in charge of responding to these silly outrages) were to address Lewinsky’s tweet, the singer could argue that the statute of limitations has expired. It’s been nearly a decade, for goodness’ sake. You have exactly five days to stir up a Twitter mob about your personal grievance, and after that, you’re done!
But as woke culture’s Overton window swiftly shifts — even “woman” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bette-midler-gets-attacked-as-a-terf-after-saying-women-are-being-erased-due-to-terms-like-birthing-people-people-with-vaginas">isn’t an acceptable word</a> anymore when “birthing people” will do — who knows what will become problematic years, even months, down the line. After all, once a punchline, Lewinsky has become widely recognized as a <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/11/15/18095050/monica-lewinsky-clinton-affair-tv-series-interview">potential #MeToo victim</a>. It’s not very intersectional for <a href="https://time.com/3181644/beyonce-reclaim-feminism-pop-star/">noted feminist</a> Beyoncé to poke fun at Lewinsky.
The underlying irony in all of this comes from the title of Beyoncé’s latest album: “Renaissance.” The word <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/renaissance">references</a> “a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity,” presumably one that includes a debate of ideas in which both sides present their arguments, not one in which one side complains of hurt feelings and the other side plays along out of fear.
Now that Beyoncé has changed her recent music — not even once, but twice — there’s no way listeners will let her get away with another “mistake.” Expect Beyoncé’s next album, and musical albums from other artists, to go through a few early iterations after their release until they’re appropriately sanitized.
Even then, not everyone will be happy. So if she wants to start choosing who has a legitimate right to victimhood, Beyoncé owes everyone an apology.

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After “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston dissed celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Monica Lewinsky for becoming famous because of sexual escapades, fans belittled her comments, pointing out that Aniston’s path to fame was aided by the nepotism from famous parents.
Aniston, 53, made her comments in an interview with “Pam &amp; Tommy” star Sebastian Stan as part of the &#8220;Actors on Actors&#8221; interviews for <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/jennifer-aniston-sebastian-stan-friends-talking-penis-1235285039/">Variety</a>. The two discussed the sex tape made by Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee which served as the basis for the Hulu series.
Commenting on the 1990s, Aniston called them “the time when the internet really shaped a new culture about people becoming famous. This thing of people becoming famous for basically doing nothing. I mean — Paris Hilton, Monica Lewinsky, all those.”
“I always say I feel lucky that we got a little taste of the industry before it became what it is today, which is just different — more streaming services, more people,” she said. “You’re famous from TikTok. You’re famous from YouTube. You’re famous from Instagram. It’s sort of almost like it’s diluting our actor’s job.”
Some fans slammed Aniston on Twitter, noting that her father John had starred on “Days of Our Lives” while her mother Nancy Dow had starred in TV shows such as “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “The Wild Wild West.”
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Jennifer Aniston plays the same character which is just a version of herself in every movie and it consistently gives nothing. The only that saves her is she has pretty okay co stars to save as comic relief.. always the NEPOTISM babies with no talent wanting to give their take <a href="https://t.co/1N2e0QC9wq">https://t.co/1N2e0QC9wq</a>
— ᴳ&amp;ᵀ ᵇᵒᵗᵃⁿⁱᶜᵃˡ ᵍᵃˡ 🍹 (@est_muyunda) <a href="https://twitter.com/est_muyunda/status/1536654116319023104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Jennifer Aniston&#8217;s parents were both millionaire actors embedded in the film industry. Their connections allowed for Aniston to have the career that she has. Not trying to minimise what she did in her career but I actually think some of this move away from industry elite is good.
— Skandar (@skandarmalik4) <a href="https://twitter.com/skandarmalik4/status/1536262735096385536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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She’s not wrong… the early 00’s was revolutionizing. You actually had to have talent.
— yung ri¢h (@itsrichard_e) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsrichard_e/status/1536205100049256448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
“She kind of has a point though. Trained actors and those just coming out of training have been getting sidelined for influencers with no training whatsoever for a while now. And it’s happening across the board, no matter the race/class. Usually those influencers are white, too,” another user added.

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Monica Lewinsky said on Wednesday that she feels cancel culture has become “a little too broad,” becoming the latest high-profile figure to criticize the way public shaming occurs in the age of the internet.
Lewinsky made the remark to Trevor Noah during an appearance on &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; to discuss the new documentary she executive produced, &#8220;15 Minutes of Shame,&#8221; which examines how public shaming has exploded since the invention of the internet, targeting the vulnerable, as well as people in power.
“I don’t know what you think about cancel culture and the term ‘cancel culture,’ but I think, for me, it’s just become a little too broad,” Lewinsky told Noah.
“I think that really what felt important was for people to come to understand what happens in these shamings, and what does it feel like to be on the receiving end of that tidal wave of negativity. It has exacerbated from being just shamed; it also can be violence, and that violence — particularly for women — it doesn’t just live online,” she explained.
Lewinsky said that it became clear to her that &#8220;what happened to me — and I made a mistake — but what happened to me was now happening to many other people, especially young people.&#8221;
She added that public shaming is also &#8220;very much about power.&#8221;
“Are there people in power who should face consequences? Absolutely,” Lewinsky said. “But are there people who are not in positions of power who are facing the same consequence and it&#8217;s ruining their lives in a way that is very different? Yes to that, too.”
Lewinsky&#8217;s documentary takes viewers through some of the history of public shaming, detailing how the internet became a powerful tool to shame people like Lewinsky herself when her sex scandal with former President Bill Clinton became public in 1998. At the time, the press salivated over the story, which broke largely over the nearly brand new internet. In the film, Lewinsky refers to herself as &#8220;patient zero&#8221; with regard to public shaming.
The affair between Lewinsky, then a 22-year-old White House intern, and the former president, then 49, led to charges of perjury and obstruction of justice against Clinton and his impeachment later that year, but Clinton was acquitted on all charges.
&#8220;One of the factors – and we do take people through this in the film – is around the idea of how shame had been used since the beginning of time as a social tool. When the printing press was invented, it all of the sudden leap-frogged into being something that could now be commoditized,&#8221; Lewinsky said Wednesday on the show.
&#8220;Once the tabloid culture bled into every area of our culture, leading up to Princess Diana&#8217;s death – which was a function of paparazzi living in that world, the tabloid world, that&#8217;s where their income comes from – and so there was that moment,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That was only five months before 1998, so we didn&#8217;t make a cultural shift.&#8221;

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Actress Sarah Paulson will be portraying Linda Tripp &#8212; a key figure in the 1998 President Clinton sex scandal that culminated in his impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives &#8212; in the upcoming season of &#8220;American Crime Story: Impeachment&#8221; on FX. Speaking with <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/02/sarah-paulson-golden-globe-nominations-ratched-american-crime-story-impeachment-linda-tripp-1234686559/">Deadline</a>, the actress discussed the challenge of finding &#8220;the humanity&#8221; of Tripp while portraying her.
According to Paulson, who portrayed prosecutor Marcia Clarke in the previous season about the O.J. Simpson trial, she had to avoid sitting in judgment on Tripp for the role she played in the impeachment  &#8212; a trick she learned while shooting &#8220;12 Years a Slave.&#8221;
&#8220;I think about something that Steve McQueen said to me when we were shooting &#8217;12 Years a Slave&#8217; with him, how important it was for me to stand back from my own judgement of the character and to not sit in a space of judgement, and that it wouldn’t help me play the part, and it wouldn’t help me tell the story,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, I remember that from many years ago, and it’s something I’ve been reaching for on this part.&#8221;
&#8220;Unlike Marcia Clarke, who was so misunderstood and vilified erroneously, this story with Linda is much more complicated,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I don’t think a lot of people in life don’t stand in the mirror and constantly assess what they’re doing. I think Linda was just not one of those people who was, perhaps, not aware of just how far this story was going to go, and what her part was going be. It’s totally challenging in a way that is very exciting to me as an actor, but it’s not super easy to live inside of it as a human being.&#8221;
Paulson added that the current impeachment trial of President Trump has not changed her perception of the material.
“It’s not changed for me from our current political landscape,” she said. “I’m more interested in the gender dynamics that are in play.”
Linda Tripp became a household name in the late-1990s after she recorded several conversations between herself and Monica Lewinsky about Lewinsky’s affair with President Clinton. The discussion eventually gave way to a series of events that culminated in Clinton’s impeachment. At one point, Tripp encouraged Lewinsky to document her relationship and keep the infamous semen-stained navy blue dress from being dry-cleaned. Tripp’s tapes were turned over to independent counsel Kenneth Starr and served as key evidence in a perjury case against the president.
The New York Post provided a detailed timeline of events:
<blockquote>Tripp was a civil servant in the Pentagon when she became close to the then-22-year-old Lewinsky, who also worked in the public affairs office.
During their conversations, Lewinsky revealed that she had a physical relationship with Clinton when she was a White House intern, and Tripp began to <a href="https://nypost.com/1999/12/17/monica-tripp-tapes-terrified-me/">secretly record their talks</a>.
Tripp also encouraged Lewinsky to document her relationship with the president.
Tripp turned the tapes over to then-independent counsel Kenneth Starr in exchange for immunity from illegal wiretapping charges.
She also told Starr about a key piece of evidence – the <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/11/13/how-monica-lewinsky-finally-noticed-that-stain-on-her-dress/">semen-stained navy blue dress</a> Lewinsky said she wore during a sex act.
Lewinsky had shown Tripp the dress and she encouraged her to keep it and not have it dry cleaned.
Using the information on Tripp’s recordings, Starr got approval from then-Attorney General Janet Reno and the special court overseeing the independent counsel to expand the investigation into the relationship between Lewinsky and the president.
Lewinsky’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2015/07/28/linda-tripp-breaks-silence-after-nearly-20-years-unloads-on-hillary/">conversations laid the groundwork</a> for the perjury charges against Clinton, who had denied the affair.
He was impeached by the House in December 1998 but was acquitted by the Senate in 1999.</blockquote>
At the time, and over the ensuing years, the media largely deemed Linda Tripp a vindictive partisan. Speaking with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/07/30/linda-tripp-says-she-was-the-victim-of-a-real-high-tech-lynching-in-first-public-address-since-2000/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a> in 2018, Tripp said she only regrets “not having the guts to do it sooner,” arguing she was a victim of a “high-tech lynching” of her own.
“It was always about right and wrong, never left and right,” Tripp said. “It was about exposing perjury and the obstruction of justice. It was never about politics.”
Linda Tripp <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/linda-tripp-key-figure-in-clinton-impeachment-dies-at-70-monica-lewinsky-responds">died in April 2020</a> at the age of 70 from pancreatic cancer.

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Former President Bill Clinton lectured President Donald Trump on Tuesday night about his conduct in the Oval Office. Clinton, who had an affair during his presidency with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky, made the remarks during his speech at the Democrat National Convention.
&#8220;At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;Instead, it&#8217;s a storm center. There&#8217;s only chaos. Just one thing never changes—his determination to deny responsibility and shift the blame. The buck never stops there.&#8221;
Clinton was impeached during his presidency for lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice about the affair that he had with Lewinsky inside the White House.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/icreport/6narritiii.htm">highlighted</a> one of the encounters that Lewinsky had when she was summoned to the Oval Office by Clinton:
<blockquote>According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her at her desk and suggested that she come to the Oval Office on the pretext of delivering papers to him. She went to the Oval Office and was admitted by a plainclothes Secret Service agent. In her folder was a gift for the President, a Hugo Boss necktie.
In the hallway by the study, the President and Ms. Lewinsky kissed. On this occasion, according to Ms. Lewinsky, &#8220;he focused on me pretty exclusively,&#8221; kissing her bare breasts and fondling her genitals. At one point, the President inserted a cigar into Ms. Lewinsky&#8217;s vagina, then put the cigar in his mouth and said: &#8220;It tastes good.&#8221; After they were finished, Ms. Lewinsky left the Oval Office and walked through the Rose Garden.</blockquote>
The Post highlighted numerous other sexual encounters that the two had when Clinton summoned Lewinsky to the Oval Office.
Clinton&#8217;s speech at the Democrat National Convention comes on the same day that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/never-before-seen-photos-of-bill-clinton-getting-massage-from-epstein-accuser-released">new photos were released</a> that showed him getting a massage from one of Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s victims. Multiple witnesses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clinton-was-with-epstein-on-private-island-at-same-time-as-2-young-girls-witness-claims-in-unsealed-court-docs">say</a> that have seen Clinton on Epstein&#8217;s &#8220;pedophile island,&#8221; which Clinton denies.
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Linda Tripp, a key figure in the 1998 President Clinton sex scandal that culminated in his impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives, has died at the age of 70 from pancreatic cancer. Her death was not related to the coronavirus.
Tuesday night, reports surfaced that Tripp was on her deathbed as her daughter, Allison Tripp Foley, announced the unfortunate news <a href="https://www.facebook.com/allison.tripp.9/posts/10218884479081773" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">on Facebook</a>.
“My mommy is leaving this earth. I don’t know myself if I can survive this heartache. Please pray for a painless process for the strongest woman I will ever know in my entire lifetime,” said Tripp Foley before making her profile private, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/linda-tripp-whistleblower-in-lewinsky-scandal-near-death/">New York Post</a>.
Prior to Tripp’s passing, Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose illicit affair with Bill Clinton nearly derailed his presidency, expressed well-wishes to Linda Tripp and her family.
&#8220;No matter the past, upon hearing that Linda Tripp is very seriously ill, I hope for her recovery. I can’t imagine how difficult this is for her family,&#8221; tweeted Lewinsky.
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no matter the past, upon hearing that linda tripp is very seriously ill, i hope for her recovery. i can’t imagine how difficult this is for her family.
&mdash; Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1247943682088525825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Linda Tripp became a household name in the late-1990s after she recorded several conversations between herself and Monica Lewinsky about the affair with President Clinton, which eventually culminated in his impeachment in the House. At one point, she even encouraged Lewinsky to document her relationship and keep the infamous semen-stained navy blue dress from being dry-cleaned. The tapes were turned over to independent counsel Kenneth Starr, serving as key evidence in the perjury case against the president.
The New York Post provided a detailed timeline of events:
<blockquote>Tripp was a civil servant in the Pentagon when she became close to the then-22-year-old Lewinsky, who also worked in the public affairs office.
During their conversations, Lewinsky revealed that she had a physical relationship with Clinton when she was a White House intern, and Tripp began to <a href="https://nypost.com/1999/12/17/monica-tripp-tapes-terrified-me/">secretly record their talks</a>.
Tripp also encouraged Lewinsky to document her relationship with the president.
Tripp turned the tapes over to then-independent counsel Kenneth Starr in exchange for immunity from illegal wiretapping charges.
She also told Starr about a key piece of evidence – the <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/11/13/how-monica-lewinsky-finally-noticed-that-stain-on-her-dress/">semen-stained navy blue dress</a> Lewinsky said she wore during a sex act.
Lewinsky had shown Tripp the dress and she encouraged her to keep it and not have it dry cleaned.
Using the information on Tripp’s recordings, Starr got approval from then-Attorney General Janet Reno and the special court overseeing the independent counsel to expand the investigation into the relationship between Lewinsky and the president.
Lewinsky’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2015/07/28/linda-tripp-breaks-silence-after-nearly-20-years-unloads-on-hillary/">conversations laid the groundwork</a> for the perjury charges against Clinton, who had denied the affair.
He was impeached by the House in December 1998 but was acquitted by the Senate in 1999.</blockquote>
At the time, and over the ensuing years, the media largely deemed Linda Tripp a vindictive partisan. Speaking with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/07/30/linda-tripp-says-she-was-the-victim-of-a-real-high-tech-lynching-in-first-public-address-since-2000/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a> in 2018, Tripp said she only regrets “not having the guts to do it sooner,&#8221; arguing she was a victim of a &#8220;high-tech lynching&#8221; of her own.
“It was always about right and wrong, never left and right,” Tripp said. “It was about exposing perjury and the obstruction of justice. It was never about politics.”

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Linda Tripp, Key Figure In Clinton Impeachment, Dies At 70. Monica Lewinsky Responds.

The former White House intern who had sexual relations with President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office has finally weighed in on the White House response to the coronavirus.
Monica Lewinsky asked her 750,000 Twitter followers to mail feces to the White House.
“They’ve now decided they will test EVERYONE for the Covid-19 Virus. Please send a stool sample to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500,” she wrote.
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The tweet has been liked more than 42,000 times and retweeted nearly 7,000 times.
The response on Twitter wasn&#8217;t pretty.
&#8220;Should we send it to the Oval Office oh wait you are the only one that gets samples there,&#8221; one Twitterer wrote.
&#8220;Not funny Monica. One family has lost 4 family members and your [sic] using this sick humor is not funny,&#8221; wrote another.
&#8220;You know, I have always taken up for you, been on your side. But people who take joy in political jabs during this time of world wide crisis are despicable. I will never take up for you or have any sympathy for you ever again. I hope you realize you’ve lost at least 50% of USA,&#8221; wrote a third.
Of course, many were supportive. &#8220;You just made my day,&#8221; wrote one.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and the White House Coronavirus Task Force remained hard at work, announcing additional actions on Friday as part of the ongoing, government-wide response to the global pandemic:
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<li>To help American families and businesses, the Treasury Department announced that Tax Day will be moved from April 15 to July 15. No interest or penalties will be charged for filing during this extended window, but any American expecting refunds or credits may claim now to get their money sooner.</li>
<li>To minimize impact on our nation’s students, the Department of Education is temporarily waiving all interest on federally held student loans. Secretary Betsy DeVos has also directed federal lenders to allow borrowers to suspend their student loan payments without penalty for at least the next 60 days.</li>
<li>Early, decisive travel restrictions helped slow the spread of Coronavirus to our country. Today, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States and Mexico have agreed to restrict non-essential travel across their border.</li>
<li>More help is on the way. The Trump Administration worked with Congress last week on a bipartisan deal to deliver economic relief and support for American families, which the President signed into law on Wednesday. More legislative action is expected soon.</li>
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The Trump administration also took measures at both borders. &#8220;Numerous countries around the world have taken safety measures at their borders to stem the spread of the virus. The President, like dozens of other leaders across the world, is taking action to protect the health and well-being of our citizens during this public health crisis,&#8221; the White House said in a statement.
Trump also took measures to stem the flow of foreigners into the country. &#8220;President Trump took action early to restrict travel from China and stem the spread of coronavirus to the United States. The President took further action to restrict travel from additional impacted areas, including Iran, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The State Department has issued a global level 4 travel advisory, informing Americans that they should avoid all international travel,&#8221; the White House said.

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It probably wasn&#8217;t the clip Hillary Clinton was hoping would go viral from the forthcoming Hulu documentary, &#8220;Hillary,&#8221; but in an interview about his time in office, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8078733/Bill-Clinton-says-having-sex-Monica-Lewinsky-manage-anxieties.html">first reported by the Daily Mail</a>, former president Bill Clinton admits to filmmakers that he had sex with Monica Lewinsky as a way of &#8220;managing his anxiety&#8221; over holding the nation&#8217;s highest office.
The former president does not comment, however, on how long he has had anxiety, or whether his many other alleged affairs related in any way to self-treatment for mental health issues.
Clinton tells the &#8220;Hillary&#8221; filmmakers that &#8220;the pressure of being in the White House made him feel like a boxer who had gone 30 rounds and his affair was &#8216;something that will take your mind off it for a while,&#8217;” <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/05/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-affair-was-to-manage-my-anxieties/">according to the New York Post</a>.
“Nobody thinks they’re taking a risk,” Clinton says in the documentary, which is supposed to drop on Hulu Friday at midnight. “That’s not why we do stupid things.”
The interview is actually a bit of &#8220;PR rehabilitation&#8221; for the former president, designed to make Hillary Clinton, who supported her husband during his own impeachment &#8212; a direct result of his affair with Lewinsky &#8212; into a hero for handling the incident with poise and grace.
Bill Clinton portrays himself as penitent in the film, recalling how he sheepishly admitted his affair to his wife after the Drudge Report broke news of his dalliances.
“I went and sat on the bed and talked to her. I told her exactly what happened, when it happened,&#8221; Clinton says. &#8220;I said I feel terrible about it.&#8221;
&#8220;We’ve been through quite a bit in the last few years,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;I said I have no defense, it’s inexcusable what I did.”
Hillary Clinton, in the documentary, claims she was taken by complete surprise, clearly unaware of he husband&#8217;s trail of alleged affairs &#8212; some which threatened to bubble to the surface during Clinton&#8217;s first campaign for president, according to accounts written at the time.
She was &#8220;devastated,&#8221; she tells interviewers. &#8220;I could not believe it. I was so personally just hurt and I can’t believe this, I can’t believe you lied,&#8221; she says she told the then-President.
She then says she demanded the pair enter marriage counseling and engaged in “painful, painful discussions.”
&#8220;She deserved it, Chelsea deserved it and I needed it,” Bill says of the counseling sessions.
Oddly enough, though, it appears Bill feels little for his former intern, who, according to her own recent admissions, has suffered greatly because of the incident, which saw her, a young intern, taken advantage of by a much older, powerful man.
“I feel terrible about the fact that Monica Lewinsky’s life was defined by it,&#8221; Bill Clinton says, quickly quantifying that Lewinsky suffered, &#8220;unfairly I think.”
&#8220;Over the years I’ve watched her trying to get a normal life back again, but you’ve got to decide how to define normal,” he says.
The &#8220;Hillary&#8221; documentary premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival, but clips, released in the interim between its premiere and its addition to the Hulu catalog, show the former presidential candidate trying desperately to recraft her image yet again, excusing her loss to President Donald Trump, and re-imagining her public image, Bill Clinton&#8217;s story included.
Although Bill Clinton admits to the Lewinsky affair in the documentary, it&#8217;s not clear he is willing to also admit to what some believe are &#8220;dozens&#8221; of affairs over the course of decades, as well as a number of alleged rapes and sexual assaults. As far as Bill and Hillary Clinton are concerned, it seems, there was only a single incident.

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Bill Clinton Told ‘Hillary’ Doc Filmmakers He Had Sex With Monica Lewinsky To ‘Manage His Anxiety’ Over Being President

On Friday, The New York Times broke the news that President Trump has added three high-profile names to his impeachment team — and two of them happen to have been involved in the investigation that resulted in the only other presidential impeachment in the last 150 years.
Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose relationship with then-President Clinton, around which that investigation revolved, responded to the news with a brief but memorable tweet. &#8220;[T]his is definitely an &#8216;are you f***ing kidding me?&#8217; kinda day,&#8221; she wrote.
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this is definitely an “are you fucking kidding me?” kinda day.
&mdash; Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1218192875931959296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Lewinsky — who was just 22 when Clinton, then 49, carried on a sexual relationship with her and has since gone on to become an anti-bullying activist — appears to have been responding to the news that former independent counsels Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray were joining Trump&#8217;s impeachment team, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/trump-impeachment-lawyers-starr-dershowitz.html">reported</a> by the Times&#8217; Maggie Haberman Friday morning:
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President Trump plans on adding former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and the defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz to his legal team for his trial by the Senate, a person briefed on the plan said Friday.
Mr. Starr, whose investigation into President Bill Clinton’s sexual relationships led to his impeachment, will be joined by Robert Ray, who succeeded Mr. Starr as independent counsel and <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/the-starr-report-full-text-of-findings-sent-to-congress-part-two-of-thirteen.html">wrote the final report</a> on Mr. Clinton, the person said.
Rounding out the team will be Mr. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus who became famous as a defense counsel for high-profile defendants like O.J. Simpson.
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Starr, Ray, and Dershowitz will join White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow to represent the president in the Senate trial. In a statement Friday, the team specifically addressed Dershowitz&#8217;s role in the process.
“Professor Dershowitz will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal,” the team announced in a statement reported by the Times. “While Professor Dershowitz is nonpartisan when it comes to the constitution — he opposed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and voted for Hillary Clinton — he believes the issues at stake go to the heart of our enduring Constitution. He is participating in this impeachment trial to defend the integrity of the Constitution and to prevent the creation of a dangerous constitutional precedent.”
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A Republican-majority House passed two articles of impeachment against Clinton on Dec. 19, 1998, for perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice related to his affair with Lewinsky. The evidence brought against Clinton came largely from the report produced by Starr, then head of the Office of the Independent Counsel.
What would come to be known as the &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/the-starr-report-full-text-of-findings-sent-to-congress-part-two-of-thirteen.html">Starr Report</a>&#8221; presented “substantial and credible information that President Clinton criminally obstructed the judicial process, first in a sexual harassment lawsuit in which he was the defendant and then in a grand jury investigation.” The report detailed “the President’s efforts to get Ms. Lewinsky a job, Ms. Lewinsky’s subpoena in Jones v. Clinton, the role of Vernon Jordan, the President’s discussions with Ms. Lewinsky about her affidavit and deposition, the President’s deposition testimony in Jones, the President’s attempts to coach a potential witness in the harassment case, the President’s false and misleading statements to aides and to the American public after the Lewinsky story became public, and, finally, the President’s testimony before a federal grand jury.”
Ray, who succeeded Starr as head of the Independent Counsel in 1999, submitted the final report on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
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Monica Lewinsky Responds With F-Bomb To New Additions To Trump Impeachment Team

Ahead of the rapidly approaching impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, President Trump has reportedly added a few more key players to his impeachment team, among them two former independent counsels responsible for reports on the sex scandal that ultimately got Bill Clinton impeached, Kenneth Starr and Robert Ray, as well as prominent Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz.
The New York Times&#8217; Maggie Haberman first <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/trump-impeachment-lawyers-starr-dershowitz.html">reported</a> on the additions of Starr, Ray, and Dershowitz Friday morning:
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President Trump plans on adding former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr and the defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz to his legal team for his trial by the Senate, a person briefed on the plan said Friday.
Mr. Starr, whose investigation into President Bill Clinton’s sexual relationships led to his impeachment, will be joined by Robert Ray, who succeeded Mr. Starr as independent counsel and <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/the-starr-report-full-text-of-findings-sent-to-congress-part-two-of-thirteen.html">wrote the final report</a> on Mr. Clinton, the person said.
Rounding out the team will be Mr. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus who became famous as a defense counsel for high-profile defendants like O.J. Simpson.
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The three will join White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow to represent Trump in the trial.
In a statement reported by Haberman, Trump&#8217;s impeachment team detailed the role Dershowitz — a self-described liberal who has frequently defended Trump publicly since he took office — will play.
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“Professor Dershowitz will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal,” the statement reads. “While Professor Dershowitz is nonpartisan when it comes to the constitution — he opposed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and voted for Hillary Clinton — he believes the issues at stake go to the heart of our enduring Constitution. He is participating in this impeachment trial to defend the integrity of the Constitution and to prevent the creation of a dangerous constitutional precedent.”
Starr&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/12/us/the-starr-report-full-text-of-findings-sent-to-congress-part-two-of-thirteen.html">famous report</a> on Clinton&#8217;s sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky presented &#8220;substantial and credible information that President Clinton criminally obstructed the judicial process, first in a sexual harassment lawsuit in which he was the defendant and then in a grand jury investigation.&#8221; The Starr Report&#8217;s findings ultimately led to the Republican-majority House passing two articles of impeachment against Clinton, for perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice, on both of which the president was acquitted in the Republican-led Senate.
Among the damaging information detailed in the Starr Report are &#8220;the President&#8217;s efforts to get Ms. Lewinsky a job, Ms. Lewinsky&#8217;s subpoena in Jones v. Clinton, the role of Vernon Jordan, the President&#8217;s discussions with Ms. Lewinsky about her affidavit and deposition, the President&#8217;s deposition testimony in Jones, the President&#8217;s attempts to coach a potential witness in the harassment case, the President&#8217;s false and misleading statements to aides and to the American public after the Lewinsky story became public, and, finally, the President&#8217;s testimony before a federal grand jury.&#8221;
Ray submitted the final report on the Lewinsky scandal after he took over as head of the Office of the Independent Counsel in 1999, a position he held until 2002.
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This article has been updated to include more context.
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