bdmetronews Desk ॥ Monica Lewinsky weighed in Tuesday on the handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on President Trump in a three-word tweet that compared it to the Ken Starr investigation that exposed her affair with President Bill Clinton.
Lewinsky was responding to a law professor’s comparison of Mueller’s still-confidential report on the ties between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government to the 1998 release of the Starr Report. Mueller delivered a report on his probe, which began in mid-2017, to Attorney General William Barr last Friday. On Sunday, Barr issued a four-page summary of Mueller’s report, stating that Mueller did not find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Mueller did not come to a conclusion on the question of whether Trump obstructed justice, but Barr concluded there was not enough evidence to charge the president with a crime.
“Imagine if the Starr Report had been provided only to President Clinton’s Attorney General, Janet Reno, who then read it privately and published a 4-page letter based on her private reading stating her conclusion that President Clinton committed no crimes,” Orin Kerr, a professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, tweeted Tuesday evening.
The revelation of Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky when she served as a White House intern led to his impeachment by the House in late 1998. Clinton was subsequently acquitted in the Senate. During the course of Starr’s four-year investigation, Linda Tripp, a former White House staffer, provided Starr with secretly taped conversations in which Lewinsky discussed having oral sex with Clinton.
