Monica Lewinsky deserves an apology from former President Bill Clinton and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for how they treated her during the scandal involving her affair with Clinton, according to CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
“What she went through, the Clintons owe her an apology,” Tapper told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Thursday.
“They treated her poorly. She had legal bills. It is amazing to me how much, when there is a scandal like this, how much the man is able to dust himself off and move on with his life and the woman is stuck like a mosquito [in Amber]. How unfair that is,” he continued.
Tapper went on a date with Lewinsky around the time news of her affair with Clinton while she was a White House intern broke in 1998. He said he wrote about his interactions with her at the time for the City Paper where he worked at the time, because he “had a different take” on the ensuing scandal.
“I knew her as a person. People forget Clinton was denying it. Taxpayer dollars were spent on people going out and lying to the American people and trying to destroy her. If that blue dress didn’t exist, he’d be denying it today,” he said.
Lewinsky made headlines Wednesday when she claimed her invitation to Town & Country magazine’s annual philanthropic summit was rescinded because Bill Clinton was attending.
The magazine apologized over the incident on Thursday.
Tapper is promoting his first novel, The Hellfire Club, which was published April 24.
