Linda Tripp, and the trailing damage of the Clinton affair | secupp writes for CNNOpinion
SE Cupp is a CNN political commentator and the host of"SE Cupp Unfiltered." The views expressed in this commentary are solely hers. View more opinion articles on CNN.
There is a man at the center of this story, but it is really about three women. One went on to become a US senator and run for president, twice, unsuccessfully. Another spent decades trying to hide, heal, reinvent and give back. S.E. CuppThe third -- her name was Linda Tripp -- lived in relative obscurity. She died Wednesday. She and the other two women, Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, were central figures in one of the biggest political scandals in modern American history, their lives, each of them, rearranged and upended by events that would define them forever -- notably in ways that the man in this story, former President Bill Clinton, has largely escaped.
Bill Clinton opens up about Lewinsky affair 02:06Bill Clinton would ultimately be impeached -- and acquitted, in 1999 -- of charges related to his lying about the relationship. But even as recently as 2018, Hillary Clinton minimized the severity of her husband's obvious abuse of power, insisting that Lewinsky, 27 years his junior, had been"an adult." The Clintons' reputation for cravenly ducking accountability was cemented at this moment in history and in the fallout.
Lewinsky reveals timeline of Clinton affair 02:04But for Linda Tripp, there was no coming back. In betraying her young friend's confidence, and secretly taping conversations with Lewinsky about her relationship with the President, Tripp was villainized worse than Bill himself. From the brutal depictions of her looks to"Saturday Night Live" impressions that lodged unkindly in the public consciousness, escape from infamy was impossible.
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