Bill Clinton: ”Monica Lewinsky affair was dealt with correctly”

Bill Clinton says he would not respond any differently today to reports of his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky than he did in 1998. “If the facts were the same today, I wouldn’t,” the former US president told NBC’s Today programme. When asked if, in light on the #MeToo movement, he thought […]

Bill Clinton says he would not respond any differently today to reports of his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky than he did in 1998.

“If the facts were the same today, I wouldn’t,” the former US president told NBC’s Today programme.

When asked if, in light on the #MeToo movement, he thought his handling of the scandal had been correct, he said: “I think I did the right thing.” 

Mr Clinton was impeached for lying to investigators over the relationship.

The House Republicans’ move against Mr Clinton in 1998 made him only the second US president to have been impeached. However he was later acquitted in the Senate and remained in power until 2001.

Speaking to NBC on Monday, Mr Clinton said it was not necessary for him to resign following the revelations of an affair with Ms Lewinsky, who was 22 years old at the time. 

He also said that while he has never apologised personally to her at the time, he had done so publicly: “I have apologised to the entire world.”