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
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.
kept low
You can tell that I've kept such a low profile.
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.
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.
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.
flavor political unusual
Because of the political flavor of this unusual prosecution, anything can happen.
So I don't see it as being a snitch.
money
No, I don't think money was really his motivator.
government loyalty
Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.
coffee linda saw
The only person I ever saw her with was Linda ... I'd see them having coffee once in a while.
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.
al eight gore voted watched
I watched his metamorphosis for eight years, and where I could have voted for Al Gore eight years ago, I could not have voted for him now.
wish
I wish I had done a better job. I wish I had had advisers.