Pressed by NBC’s Craig Melvin to answer tough questions about his affair with Monica Lewinsky this week, Bill Clinton put up a tone deaf performance abound with smirks and deflections that was widely panned. But Melvin didn’t even broach the allegations of nonconsensual sexual misconduct women have leveled against Clinton over the years, enough to leave any #MeToo conversation with Bill Clinton incomplete.
Many in the media, of course, have given Clinton a pass for too long, so Melvin’s willingness to push the former president on Lewinsky, who was on the wrong end of a glaring power imbalance, was welcome and refreshing. But if you’re going to talk to Bill Clinton about #MeToo, the allegations of rape and assault are not an optional part of that conversation.
