‘#METOO’
Bill Clinton refuses to apologise to Monica Lewinsky for affair and claims HE’S the victim of White House scandal
FORMER US President Bill Clinton has insisted that he doesn’t owe Monica Lewinsky a personal apology - claiming he was the real victim of their scandalous affair in 1998.
Lewinsky became a topic of major public scrutiny after her affair with the then president, but Clinton admitted over the weekend that he has never personally apologised to her for it.
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Instead, during a television interview on NBC’s Today, he said his numerous public apologies for the incident should have been enough.
He said: “I have never talked to her. But I did say, publicly, on more than one occasion, that I was sorry. That’s very different. I apologised to everyone in the world.”
In the midst of #MeToo, Clinton bravely claimed that he was the real victim of the scandal.
He was impeached and left financially ruined by the ordeal - he and his wife Hillary Clinton were the equivalent of £12 million in debt.
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“Nobody believes that I got out of it for free - I left the White House $16million in debt.”
The disgraced president said people were only pouncing on him now because they are frustrated with Donald Trump, whose has been accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour multiple times.
He said the #MeToo movement was “long overdue”, but he still has “some questions about some of the decisions which have been made”.
He also said that the media often left out “gaping” facts to try and turn the story against him.
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In March, Lewinsky wrote about her affair with Bill Clinton for Vanity Fair magazine.
She said: “What transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognise that it constituted a gross abuse of power.”
Clinton was being interviewed to promote the political Presidential thriller novel he co-wrote with esteemed author James Patterson.
He said: “This was litigated 20 years ago. Two-thirds of the American people sided with me.
“I have tried to do a good job since then with my life and with my work. That’s all I have to say to you.”
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