Tripp Says She Would ‘Do It All Again’
Linda Tripp, whose secret tape-recordings spurred the impeachment crisis, said Thursday that she would “do it all again” and expose a relationship in which she said President Clinton “abused, used, discarded” former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky.
In her first television interview since the scandal broke more than a year ago, Tripp told NBC that “the public has no clue . . . absolutely no idea what Monica endured . . . the histrionics, the hysteria, the throwing of lamps, the damage to herself,” and that Clinton “emotionally abused Monica.”
“People think this” relationship was “consensual and that I inserted myself somehow,” but “it was not,” Tripp said in the interview, to be aired today on the “Today” show.
Tripp has emerged as one of the most unpopular figures in the presidential scandal, accused of betraying her friendship with Lewinsky by secretly taping the calls in which Lewinsky talked about her affair with the president and then turning the tapes over to independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr.
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