Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said former President Bill Clinton should have stepped down as commander in chief following revelations that he had an affair with an intern, Monica Lewinsky.
“Yes, I think that is the appropriate response,” she said when asked by the New York Times asked if Clinton should have resigned at the time.
Clinton was impeached by the House over charges related to the Lewinsky scandal cover-up, but was acquitted by the Senate in 1999.
Gillibrand, who holds Hillary Clinton’s former U.S. Senate seat, is the most high-profile elected Democratic official yet to say Bill Clinton should have resigned.
The comments were made for a podcast that will be posted on Saturday and following revelations that Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., groped and forcefully kissed a radio host without her consent in 2006.
“It’s very disturbing,” Gillibrand said in response. “I was very disappointed. But it’s important that survivors are coming out and speaking truth to power and telling their stories.”
