President Bill Clinton on Monica Lewinsky And The #MeToo Movement

Daily Mail: Sorry for what? Bill Clinton insists he doesn't owe Monica Lewinsky an apology for hijacking her life by seducing her while president – and says HE'S a victim because the legal fallout left him $16 million in debt

* Clinton rocked the political world during the 1990s when he was forced to admit an affair with young White House intern Monica Lewinsky
* Now he insists he doesn't owe her a face-to-face apology for turning her life upside down and subjecting her to international ridicule
* The former president says he's a victim of his own transgressions since he was $16 million in debt when he left the White House
* He and Hillary Clinton have amassed a fortune since then through six-figure speaking appearances
* James Patterson, who co-authored a political fiction book with Clinton, insisted he shouldn't have resigned because philandering JFK and LBJ set the standard

Former President Bill Clinton insisted in a weekend interview that he doesn't owe a personal apology to Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose adult life has been defined by their inappropriate sexual affair and the global scrutiny that followed.

'No,' he told NBC in an interview airing Monday on the 'Today' show. 'I do not – I have never talked to her. But I did say publicly on more than one occasion that I was sorry.'

'I apologized to everybody in the world,' Clinton said, implying that was enough.

And the flustered former president, more famous for his Don Juan-like seductions than for his policy legacy, portrayed himself, not Lewinsky, as history's victim in the mass-media's retelling of the 1990s saga.

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Update #1: President Bill Clinton on Monica Lewinsky, #MeToo and whether his apology was enough (Today)
Update #2: Bill Clinton: Book PR Backfires, Ambushed by NBC, Today Show on Monica Lewinsky Story (Showbiz 411)

WNU Editor: I watched the interview this morning .... and I cringed. It did not go well for the former President. But what was he and his publisher thinking? The culture on this type of behavior has completely changed in the past few years, and it is a legacy that he will have to deal with for the rest of his life. And then there is this .... Bill Clinton Says He Doesn't Need to Apologize to Monica Lewinsky — Then Juanita Broaddrick Swoops In (IJR).