Linda Tripp manipulated Monica Lewinsky to admit affair

Linda Tripp recalls how she got Monica Lewinsky to confess to her affair with Bill Clinton almost two years after she first heard rumors about the White House intern in a new interview.

‘It was tough making the decision to manipulate her at the end because I had to have her recreate all I had heard for a year-and-a-half, and it was enough to curl your hair,’ says Tripp on the new episode of Fox News’ Scandalous.

‘I literally had to lead her down the garden path and get her to sort of reiterate everything that had come before. And that was tough.’

Tripp then added: ‘And that was hard to do knowing that it would break her heart, burst the bubble, destroy the fantasy of their growing old together.’ 

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New face, same attitude: Linda Tripp (above) is speaking about the recordings she made of Monica Lewinsky confessing to the fact that she had an affair with Bill Clinton

Time’s up: At the time the affair began in November 1995, Clinton was 49-years-old and Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House intern (Lewinsky and Clinton in 1997)

At the time the affair began between the president and his intern in November 1995, Clinton was 49-years-old and Lewinsky was a 22-year-old White House employee.

Lewinsky would later claim the two were together nine times between that first encounter and March of 1997.

The affair became public in January of 1998 after Tripp gave tapes of Lewinsky admitting to her relationship to Kenneth Star, who at the time was pursuing the Whitewater controversy and Clinton’s alleged sexual harassment of Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.

When Clinton was under investigation for the affair in 1998, he denied having an relations with the brunette from Beverly Hills, famously saying: ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky’ in a nationally televised White House news conference.’

He later admitted to the affair and claimed that his definition of sexual relations differed from that of others.

In a 2016 interview, Tripp suggested that she is the reason that Lewinsky is still alive.

‘I say today and I will continue to say, that I believe Monica Lewinsky is alive today because of choices I made and action I took,’ Tripp said in a radio interview with Breitbart’s Aaron Klein.

Tripp told Klein she realized she sounded ‘melodramatic,’ but ‘I can only say that from my perspective, I believe that she and I were at the time in danger, because nothing stands in the way of these people achieving their political ends. 

Women in black: The affair became public in January of 1998 after Tripp (left in 1999) gave tapes of Lewinsky (right in 1999) admitting to the relationship to Kenneth Starr

Ambitious love: ‘It was tough making the decision to manipulate her at the end because I had to have her recreate all I had heard for a year-and-a-half,’ says Tripp (The Clintons above at the 1996 Olympics)

Tripp had worked in both the Bush 41 and Clinton White House, and then worked in the Pentagon alongside Lewinsky when the former White House intern opened up to her about her affair with Bill Clinton.

Tripp taped their conversations and, to get out of a wiretape charge, handed the recordings over to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.

She was demonized in the media, as being motivated by money and for wanting to write a book. On ‘Saturday Night Live’ she was portrayed by John Goodman. 

Scandalous airs Sunday, February 11th at 8pm on Fox News. 

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