When Ken Starr released his famous report on Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in 1998, the embattled president couldn’t move on fast enough. Fast forward to Mueller's report today... It doesn't seem like Donald Trump is adopting the Clinton strategy
When Ken Starr released his famous report on Bill Clinton in 1998, the embattled president couldn’t move on fast enough. An estimated 20 million Americans tore through the independent counsel’s findings, laid out in a 445-page document that contained sordid, voyeuristic details about Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and argued forcefully for his impeachment.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. White House allies are starting to worry that Trump’s inability to move on to other subjects, or at the very least stick to playing up Mueller’s conclusion that his campaign did not engage in a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government, is doing more harm than good.
Clinton was able to ride out the scandal and even turn it back against the Republican-led Congress, ending his presidency with an approval rating in the 60s. Trump’s barrage at McGahn is also at odds with the special counsel’s report, which methodically assessed whether Trump’s former top lawyer might have misinterpreted his boss’s instructions -- and concluded that he hadn’t.
McGahn then contemplated resigning in protest, but the president ultimately backed down, and he remained the White House counsel until October 2018.
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