On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline White House,” Jennifer Palmieri, who served as Communications Director for Hillary for America and White House Deputy Press Secretary during the Clinton administration, stated that while former President Clinton shouldn’t have resigned or been impeached over his behavior with Monica Lewinsky and has been held accountable for his behavior, Clinton did take advantage of power dynamics “on a historic scale.”
Palmieri said, “Monica Lewinsky was my intern. And the relationship the president had with her was very inappropriate, and I feel that he was held accountable for that. He was impeached over it. I don’t think he should have been impeached over it, but he was. It was a consensual relationship, but he was the president of the United States and she was a 24-year-old intern. That is a — taking advantage of a power dynamic on a historic scale. But I don’t believe — but the Republicans took it. They politicized it. They made it about him and stopping his agenda. And I don’t think he should resign or I don’t think that he should have been impeached. I do think — I saw — Iran into Monica for the first time in 20 years in april. And I told her that I was really sorry just for what — everything that she had been through.”
Palmieri added that it is good that things are changing so someone like Lewinsky doesn’t have their whole life ruined and that Lewinsky has said she didn’t feel like a victim until she was bullied online.
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