Linda Tripp, the former White House employee who exposed the affair between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and then remained silent for 20 years, has finally spoken out about her experience with Hillary Clinton, telling the Daily Mail that the 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner is inherently dishonorable, corrupt, power-hungry, and certainly doesn't possess the integrity fit for a president.
Tripp had unparalleled access to and an extremely unique perspective on the Clintons during their time in the White House, working outside of the Oval Office for three months, and then in an office directly adjacent to Hillary's second floor West Wing office.
Saying she feels obligated to speak out in an effort to prevent Hillary and her culture of corruption from winning the White House, Tripp, 65, described Clinton as a manipulative and ruthless liar who will stop at nothing to reach her goals.
"I think the most compelling thing about Hillary is that she will stop at nothing to achieve her end and that she views the public as plebeians easily seduced into believing her point of view," Tripp told the Daily Mail.
Clinton's presidential run "has been planned for so many years," Tripp said. "I remember one of the quotes in my first week in the Oval Office which was the week after Clinton's first inauguration. Everybody had this little mantra, 'Eight years for Bill. Eight years for Hill.' And when I asked a senior person, 'What does that mean?' He said, 'Well eight years for his administration and eight years for hers.'"
Tripp, who secretly recorded conversations with Lewinsky about the affair and then went public with it, explained that Hillary "ruled the White House even as early as 1993," and needed Bill's help to achieve her presidential aspirations. Being so, she took full control of every scandal to ensure that she was portrayed in the best light possible - in the case of the affair, as an unwitting and loving spouse who had fallen victim to a cheating husband. "Literally within the blink of an eye she propelled herself to First Victim status. This turned the corner for Hillary," Tripp said.
"Every scandal that originated in the Clinton administration was the brainchild of Hillary," Tripp added. "In the case of Monica Lewinsky the story was never really about Monica or Linda Tripp. It was about subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice and a true abuse of power on the part of a sitting president. That should have been the story. It never was ... And now the very person who orchestrated that cover up and all the other cover ups over the years including those surfacing today is running for president of the United States."
And for all of Bill's transgressions, the former president "is not as unscrupulous as his wife," she said. "He is complicit but he is not as deceitful as Hillary Clinton is. Don't get me wrong, they are both missing the integrity chip but while she is inherently dishonorable, his seems to be learned behavior," she said.
On countless occasions, Tripp watched Hillary "blatantly lie to the American people and knowingly lie."
"This was not a mistake or error or even spin. This was pure manipulation of the truth," she said, claiming Hillary operates under the assumption that "the rules do not apply" to her or her husband.
Tripp explained what Clinton's modus operandi was and continues to be: "I will do what I want and then when I'm questioned I will say, 'oops,' or 'bureaucratic snafu,' and then after a couple of months her refrain will be, 'this is old news, it's been investigated, I did nothing wrong, let's move on, it's time to address the issues facing the middle class of America.'"
"That's what she has always done and that's what she will continue to do and the frightening aspect of that approach is that it works," she said, pointing to the ongoing scandal involving Hillary's exclusive use of a private email account and server during her tenure as secretary of state.
While Hillary maintains that she did nothing wrong by operating the private system and has insisted multiple times that she did not handle classified information on it, critics have pointed out that she at the very least violated a number of State Department guidelines. Further, two government inspectors general said on Friday that after examining a sample of only 40 of Hillary's emails, the emails were found to contain "classified information when they were generated" and remain classified today. "This classified information should never have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system," the inspectors general said.
After leaving the State Department, Clinton's use of a private email system allowed her the chance to unilaterally decide which emails should be turned over for public record-keeping purposes. Absent of independent oversight, she eventually turned over about 30,000 of them that she classified as "work-related" and then decided to delete the other 30,000 that she deemed personal in nature.
Tripp added: "The scandals simply continue. She covers them up and moves on. People should be aware that she is probably the first cabinet secretary in the history of our country who has operated with their own private server, for a reason. Every lowly government employee understands that electronic communication on government-operated computers belongs to the United States.
"Hillary knows this and it's why she chose to break the rules. Because every document written on a government device is a record and it is retrievable forever more. Hillary's voluminous documents are not retrievable. She is answerable to no-one."
Tripp said she would love to see a female president in her lifetime, but "without a doubt," it is "not the time nor will it ever be the time for Hillary Clinton to be that president. She simply lacks the integrity."
