Bill Clinton Issues ANOTHER Non-Apology As He Tries To Clean Up Monica Lewinsky Mess By Saying He 'Did Apologize' To The Whole World At Staged Prayer Breakfast – And Insists He's A #Metoo Backer Despite Long Trail Of Accusations

Former president Bill Clinton doubled down Monday night on his view that he doesn’t owe Monica Lewinsky a person-to-person apology for taking advantage of her when she was a White House intern.

He said during a book-tour event in Harlem, as he had the day before in an interview broadcast on NBC, that the blanket mea culpa he offered in 1998 should have been enough.

‘The suggestion was that I never apologized for what caused all the trouble for me 20 years ago,’ Clinton said Monday night – not mentioning the trouble it caused Lewinsky.

‘I did,’ he said. ‘I meant it then, I meant it now. I apologized to my family, to Monica Lewinsky and her family and to the American people before a panel of ministers in the White House, which was widely reported.’

‘So I did that. I meant it then and I mean it today. I live with it all the time.’

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Clinton was referring to the 1998 National Prayer Breakfast, where he said he was sorry for the affair that nearly ended his political career.

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On Monday night the former president painted himself as a supporter of the #MeToo movement, a public groundswell of women who have come forward to tell their stories of sexual abuse and harassment at the hands of powerful men.

At least four women maintain such accusations against Clinton, including one, Juanita Broaddrick, who claims he raped her decads ago in an Arkansas hotel room while he was the state’s married governor.

‘I support the Me Too movement,’ he said, adding that he believes ‘it is long overdue.’

‘And I have always tried to support it in the decisions and policies that I advanced. Beyond that, I think it would be good if we could go on with the discussion’ about his book.

Lewinsky’s adult life has been defined by Bill Clinton’s successful sexual advances and the global scrutiny that followed. But Clinton’s new book, co-authored with fiction writer James Patterson, has him engaged for the first time in a no-apologies tour about his past conquests.

‘No I do not’ owe her an apology, he told NBC in an interview airing Monday on the ‘Today’ show. ‘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.

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