Linda Tripp
Linda Tripp
Linda Rose Trippis a former U.S. civil servant who figured in the Monica Lewinsky scandal of 1998–99...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 November 1949
CityJersey City, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
filing worked
I think I'll be filing for bankruptcy. Look, I've never, ever been without a job. I've never not worked for the government.
across criminal elected evidence happened high interested might official people whether
I think what I'm most interested in getting across is to all those people out there who might have evidence of criminal wrongdoing, whether it's a high elected official or anyone, not to be put off by what has happened to me.
wish
I wish I had done a better job. I wish I had had advisers.
aware ensure job law
Well, yes. I mean, look, you can only do your job, and my job was to ensure that they were aware of what the law was.
clinton gained horrible weight
What it did for me was make me recapture the old Linda, the pre-scandal Linda, because I had gained so much weight during the Clinton years, just obsessing on these horrible things I was witnessing and didn't know what to do.
There is no evidence, so you can deny, deny, deny.
flavor political unusual
Because of the political flavor of this unusual prosecution, anything can happen.
kept low
You can tell that I've kept such a low profile.
money
No, I don't think money was really his motivator.
accept consequences full monica president talk
Much as I don't want to talk about Monica Lewinsky, I will say she and the president have a commonality: a full sense of extraordinary entitlement and an unwillingness to accept accountability or consequences for their actions.
government loyalty
Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.
So I don't see it as being a snitch.
good monica volatile
She was 21. Monica is 21 going on 14 on a good day. And she was a child. She was a mixed-up, unstable, volatile child.
decided fear january longer office telling truth
On January 12, 1998, the day I approached the Office of the Independent Counsel, I decided that fear would no longer be my master. This investigation have never been, quote, 'just about sex.' It has been about telling the truth. The truth matters.