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Former US President Bill Clinton had a sex scandal with White House intern Lewinsky. In the rapidly changing international politics, sex scandals have never left people's sight. Whether having an affair with an assistant or hanging out in a brothel, once a male politician is involved in the pomegranate skirt, it is difficult to get away with it. Most of them can only be forced to step down in the dark and get rid of the shadow by luck. Looking at the erotic events in international politics, it really answers the old saying of China, "If you don't want others to know, you must do it yourself." As a politician, only the affairs of governing the country and keeping the country safe can be immortalized.
During the administration of former US President Bill Clinton, the American economy has been very prosperous, but what impressed the public most was his sex scandal with former White House intern Lewinsky.
Clinton and Lewinsky knew each other as early as 1995. They had sex in the White House, but Clinton firmly denied it. 1998, Clinton, then president, was investigated for lying about her sex scandal with Lewinsky, and was accused of perjury and obstruction of justice. In August of the same year, Clinton made a televised speech to the people of China, and publicly admitted for the first time that there was "no proper relationship" with Lewinsky. Soon after, the House of Representatives passed two impeachment clauses, which were rejected by the Senate in February of the following year, and Clinton was able to escape impeachment.
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1996 After the US presidential election, Clinton's White House was in a relaxed state after the election. Just then, * * * and the party's Congress fought with the White House over the budget, freezing federal spending, and many government employees were instructed not to come to work for the time being, resulting in many government agencies, including the White House, being empty. It is in this environment that Clinton met and flirted with Monica Lewinsky, an intern at the White House, and developed into lovers.
The close relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky lasted for five months. Although the outside world doesn't know, it is an open secret among the staff on duty around the president. 1in April, 997, Lewinsky's boss was worried that she was too close to the president, so she was transferred to the Ministry of National Defense.
Lewinsky met Linda Tripp at the Department of Defense, and they became close friends. Lewinsky began to reveal to Tripp the contents of his contact with the President. She didn't know that the telephone conversation about this terrible secret was secretly recorded by Tripp.
1998 65438+ 10, the plaintiff's lawyer in Paula Jones' sexual harassment case began to collect evidence of the president's philandering, trying to prove the president's lewd character. Lewinsky submitted a written testimony, claiming that he had no contact with the President, and tried to persuade Tripp to lie for her, but Tripp didn't want to risk perjury, so she took her tape to see Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor of Baishui case. So Starr got involved in the investigation.
Clinton initially denied having an affair with Lewinsky. In public and under oath, he categorically stated that he had no sexual relationship with Lewinsky. The logic that Clinton relies on to lie confidently is, "Because he is only the party receiving the service, he is not considered to have sex."
But the tape and Lewinsky's detailed diary forced her to tell the whole truth, and the evidence provided by Lewinsky proved that the president had lied. The most crucial evidence is a blue dress stained with the president's semen. Lewinsky wanted to keep it as a souvenir, but he left DNA evidence of the president. After the test results came out, the president had to address the nation, apologize to the people, and admit that he and Lewinsky had proper relationship.
* * * Republicans caught Clinton by the balls, accused him of perjury and impeached him. Obviously, because of their hatred for Clinton, * * * and Republicans took an extreme stand and made a big deal out of it. Their behavior has not been recognized by voters; 1998' s mid-term election should have yielded a small defeat for the * * * party. But Clinton also admitted that he asked for it. According to his own account, he "gave his political opponents a knife and they stabbed him in the heart".
Clinton became the third president to be impeached in American history. According to the US Constitution, the president's accusation is tried in the Senate, with William Lanquist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as a judge, all senators as juries, and 15 members of the House of Representatives as prosecutors. Before the charges are established, two-thirds of the senators must vote in favor. As a result, not even more than half of the senators voted in favor; The president's accusation is not valid. The whole thing is finally over.
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The zipper scandal was the most familiar event when Clinton was president of the United States. When people mention Clinton, they will think of the zipper scandal.
The overall evaluation is that the zipper case has a strong political flavor in this sense. Mainly because Clinton was suspected of telling lies in the case, Clinton's opponents and the party took the opportunity to make a fuss and impeach Clinton. But a lot of the focus is still on morality: extramarital affairs and sexual relations happen to public figures like the president, so they are no longer purely personal moral issues. People in the church and education circles accused Clinton: As a public figure, how can he set a correct example for Americans if he does such an act and does not impeach him? However, more people believe that Clinton's bad example in the incident is not extramarital affairs, but false confessions that hinder judicial justice. And this is also the fundamental reason why * * * and the party impeached Clinton.
Obviously, politically, the zipper case reflects that Clinton has always been the object of conservative criticism. A series of scandals, such as erotic relationships (such as the zipper case) and business transaction fraud (such as the White House whitewater incident), made Clinton attacked by conservatives when he was in office. It was even pointed out that Vice President Al Gore's chances of winning the 2000 US presidential election were also affected by the zipper case. In fact, when Gore was campaigning, he specifically asked Joe, a conservative. Lieberman's intention is to win the approval of conservative voters.
Because of the emotional nature of the incident, the Lewinsky incident may be the most disgraceful page in the history of the Clinton administration. However, the reversal of the situation was the most crucial battle during Clinton's term.