Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp and Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky Photo: Tina Thorpe/FX Networks You likely know the major beats of Impeachment: American Crime Story. There’s President Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, the allegations of sexual harassment former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones files against the president, and Clinton’s eventual impeachment by the House and acquittal by the Senate.
American Crime Story starts after the affair has already begun, the first episode ending with Lewinsky telling Clinton about her first day in her new position at the Pentagon. The show as a whole works to reframe what happened between Lewinsky and the president, portraying the then-22-year-old as a smart young woman who fell in love, was manipulated by powerful people many years her senior, and ultimately, dehumanized in the media.
Given her proximity to Foster and the Clintons, Tripp had contacted literary agent Lucianne Goldberg in hopes of selling a book on her experience in the White House. After Lewinsky confided in Tripp about the affair, Goldberg advised Tripp to secretly record her conversations with Lewinsky as book fodder. However, those tapes could have gotten Tripp charged with wiretapping.
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