Hillary Clinton says Bill would have kept affair with Lewinski secret

2022-09-08

Hillary Clinton says Bill would have kept his affair with Monica Lewinski secret if they weren’t in the public eye and insists he was embarrassed and ‘there are circumstances where telling is crueler than not telling’

The former secretary of state even appeared to make excuses for her husband to keep the affair a secret, claiming sometimes it was ‘crueler’ to come clean
‘If you were not in the public eye, do you think he would have told you?’ Clinton was asked. ‘Oh no,’ she replied
The interview was played on The View as part of a trailer to promote the show show debuting Sept. 9 on Apple TV+
Clinton’s husband, as president, had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky from 1995-1997

Hillary Clinton said in a new clip from her new series ‘Gutsy’ that her husband would have never told her about his affair with his intern if the couple were ‘not in the public eye.’

The former secretary of state even appeared to make excuses for her husband to keep the affair a secret, claiming sometimes it was ‘crueler’ to come clean.

‘You have said the gutsiest thing you have ever done is deciding to stay in your marriage. If you were not in the public eye, do you think he would have told you?’ the ‘Gutsy’ host Rev. Whittney Ijanaten, a chaplain at UCLA Health who officiates LGBTQ marriages, asked Clinton.

‘Oh no,’ the former first lady said immediately. ‘No because he was so embarrassed, and, you know, really ashamed about it.’

‘Do you think we deserve to know?’ the host asked.

Hillary Clinton said in a new clip from her new series ‘Gutsy’ that her husband would have never told her about his affair with his intern if the couple were ‘not in the public eye’

‘You know, i think that’s one of the age-old questions,’ Clinton replied. ‘There are circumstances where telling is crueler than not telling.’

The interview was played on The View as part of a trailer to promote the show show debuting Sept. 9 on Apple TV+ on which Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea serve as executive producers.

Clinton’s husband, as president, had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky from 1995-1997. She was aged 22 to 25 at the time of the affair, he aged 48 to 51.

Lying about the clandestine romance famously led to his political demise – the House impeached Clinton in 1998.

‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,’ Clinton claimed in a televised speech in 1998.

Clinton had an affair with Lewinsky from 1995-1997

‘I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people,’ Clinton said in a Jan. 26 address, flanked by his wife.

On Jan. 27, Hillary called the affair rumors a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy.’

‘The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this – that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president,’ the then-first lady said on NBC Today.

Clinton finally admitted in taped grand jury testimony on Aug. 17, 1998 that he had engaged in an ‘improper physical relationship’ with Lewinsky. That night he offered a nationally televised statement admitting that his relationship with Lewinsky was ‘not appropriate’

Lewinsky said she had sexual encounters with Clinton nine times over the course of two years.

Clinton is seen in Midtown on August 23, 2022 in New York City.

This photograph shows Lewinsky with Clinton at a White House function and was submitted as evidence in documents by the Starr investigation and released by the House Judiciary committee September 21, 1998

Clinton was held in civil contempt of court by Judge Susan Webber Wright for giving false testimony in a case where Paula Jones accused him of sexual assault. He had been asked about the Lewinsky affair and lied about it then too.

She also spoke about why she stuck by her husband after he cheated and lied.

Hillary opened up about learning of the infidelity in a 2020 Hulu series about her entitled, Hillary. ‘I was just devastated,’ she said in the documentary. ‘I just could not believe it. I was just so personally hurt and, ‘I can’t believe this. I can’t believe you lied.’ It was—anyways, horrible. And I said, ‘If this is going to be public, you’ve got to go tell Chelsea.”

‘I defended and stood by him because I thought the impeachment process was wrong, but that wasn’t the necessary answer to what I would do with my marriage,’ she revealed. ‘It was not—to me—the same. I still had to decide whether I wanted to stay in the marriage, whether I thought it was worth saving.’

Bill also spoke about his decision to cheat on the first lady.

‘It’s … you feel like you’re staggering around. You’ve been in a 15-round prize fight that’s been extended to 30 rounds and here’s something that will take your mind off it for a while. Everybody’s life has pressures and disappointments, terrors and fears of whatever. Things I did to manage my anxieties for years—I’m a totally different person than I was.’

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