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'I got hot under the collar': Bill Clinton clarifies his comments about Lewinsky apology
ABC "News" ^ | June 5, 2018 | By MEGHAN KENEALLY

Posted on 06/05/2018 3:00:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Clinton came under fire early Monday after a testy exchange with an interviewer about whether or not he should have privately apologized to Lewinsky.

During an evening event later that day, Clinton revisited the conversation and defended the public apology he gave in September 1998.

"The hubub was I got hot under the collar because of the way the questions were asked," Clinton said Monday night, referencing his interview on NBC's Today Show earlier that day.

"I think what was lost were the two points that I made, that are important to me: the suggestion was that I never apologized for what caused all the trouble for me 20 years ago," the former president said. "So first point is I did."

"I meant it then and I meant it now," he continued. "I apologized to my family, to Monica Lewinsky and her family, and to the American people before a panel of ministers in the White House, which was widely reported. So I did that, I meant it then and I mean it today. I live with it all the time."

"The second is that I support the #MeToo movement and I think it's long overdue and I have always tried to support it in the decisions and policies that I've advanced," he said Monday evening, at an event held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: admittedperjerer; cigars; creep; dna; lewinsky; liar; slick
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Saw this on Foxnews last night and I finally figured out why there is such a divide now in the US.

When the left says: “I defended the constitution” they mean: “I got a BJ from an intern in the Oval Office”.


21 posted on 06/05/2018 3:13:27 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Puppage

Rush did a great segement in his 3rd hour today with a caller on the “Most Cheated on Woman in the World”. Bitterness will kill the broomrider.


22 posted on 06/05/2018 3:18:29 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Carry, practice, pray it don't happen. You ain't carrying you lose automtically)
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To: ealgeone
: the suggestion was that I never apologized for what caused all the trouble for me 20 years ago," the former president said. "So first point is I did."

.... for what caused all the trouble for me.......... How about .... for WHAT I DID....

23 posted on 06/05/2018 3:19:05 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

was this BEFORE the stain or after?


24 posted on 06/05/2018 3:19:21 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A poster yesterday posited that the Lewinsky scandal was a calculated leak to keep America away from the treasonous and seditious actions regarding China, Loral Space, and the whole campaign criminality..


25 posted on 06/05/2018 3:19:22 PM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yet another great catch. I never heard that but will look into details. I remember Arkansas troopers security guys’ revelations were tossed by the media into a sinkhole and bulldozed over with concrete.

Scary: the young women witches all over the US have been casting spells and curses against Trump and apparently us.
What if their black magic works? In Exodus, God allowed Moses to work superior magic against the Egyptian magicians (serpents,staff and so on) as a way to convince the dimwitted ancient mobs that it is powerful to worship and believe in ours God and abandon their idols and pseudogods.
It was not that the primitives magic didn’t work.

Are Sessions and the Comey and Mueller evil part of the curses? Or chance?


26 posted on 06/05/2018 3:19:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorhip or we're finished.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe he was worried about the four new women who are preparing to sue him.


27 posted on 06/05/2018 3:25:22 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Sasparilla

As soon as Bill,Hillary & Obama have no political or other power to use, the left will drop them and start drooling over Bernie and Kamala and Oprah and Warren.

They are not in office now. They can’t shift money to candidates. They CAN use stolen IRS records and FBI and CIA records for blackmail, however. Ask Justice Roberts and Sessions about that (privately).

Aren’t the leftists peachy and swell scumbags? I think so too.


28 posted on 06/05/2018 3:25:37 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorhip or we're finished.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Clinton’s 1998 National Prayer Breakfast apology:

“I don’t think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned - It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine — first and most important, my family, also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/246952

My personal opinion is that Clinton only need to have apologized to his wife for the ML BJ.

The article say ML suffers from PTSD from the aftermath.


29 posted on 06/05/2018 3:27:51 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Sasparilla
... I got hot under the collar because of the way the questions were asked...

Hey Bill, out some ice on it.

30 posted on 06/05/2018 3:31:02 PM PDT by Go Gordon (My dog's name is Grady Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Go Gordon

out = put


31 posted on 06/05/2018 3:31:28 PM PDT by Go Gordon (My dog's name is Grady Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: frank ballenger

There’s plenty on the net about it. I forget the guy’s name who wrote it, but there was an episode not too long after the inauguration in 1993 when Hillary beat Bill bloody and they almost intervened physically.

Stuff started to make more sense after reading that and you can tell that Hillary hardly controls herself when it comes to not only her mood swings, but speeches as well.

This is part of the Spiritual War we’re all in.


32 posted on 06/05/2018 3:31:46 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hillary is almost attractive in that picture. (I can’t believe I actually wrote that.)


33 posted on 06/05/2018 3:37:44 PM PDT by KevinB (I do not care for that Obama fellow.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


34 posted on 06/05/2018 3:39:38 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Re: the suggestion was that I never apologized for what caused all the trouble for me 20 years ago,” the former president said

What caused all the trouble for him or who caused it? Clearly, he still sees himself as the victim.


35 posted on 06/05/2018 3:43:49 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you have to explain you’ve already lost.

Bye, Bill.


36 posted on 06/05/2018 3:53:43 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Hmmm.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bill Clinton’s record of misogyny and brutality against women:

Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - “forced himself on her, biting, bruising her”
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidation, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidation
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances while married to one of his supporters

And Hillary was orchestrating the vicious smears of these women once they spoke out. Now she promotes herself as a champion of women’s rights and has said that women accusers against rapists should be believed .( Unless the accused is her rapist husband) Go figure.

BTW. Hillary took down her quote from her website about always believing the victims of sexual assault. Wonder why?


37 posted on 06/05/2018 3:57:55 PM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST


38 posted on 06/05/2018 4:01:49 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: butlerweave

Probably the last time he had a human humidor also.


39 posted on 06/05/2018 4:08:30 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LMAO, The Bent One thinks he’s still God’s gift to women, a real sex machine. Thinks he can still lie and charm his way out of anything.

Bill, you’re an impeached, disbarred serial sexual harasser and rapist, a perjuror and a suborner of perjury!!!!!! Nothing will ever change that, you will always be remembered in history as the disgusting POS that you are!!!


40 posted on 06/05/2018 4:09:43 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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