{"id":63947,"date":"2020-04-09T02:31:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63947"},"modified":"2020-04-09T02:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:31:06","slug":"linda-tripp-whistleblower-clinton-lewinsky-sex-scandal-dead-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63947","title":{"rendered":"Linda Tripp, whistleblower in Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal, dead at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Tripp, whose secret conversations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, died on Wednesday, her son-in-law told The Post. She was 70.<\/p>\n<p>Tripp has been seriously ill and on her deathbed Tuesday night, according to a Facebook posting by her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mommy is leaving this earth. I don\u2019t know myself if I can survive this heartache. Please pray for a painless process for the strongest woman I will ever know in my entire lifetime,\u201d\u00a0Allison Tripp Foley posted on Facebook\u00a0late Tuesday, adding that she was at her 70-year-old mother\u2019s bedside. Her profile was later made private.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Tripp\u2019s son-in-law, Thomas Foley, told The Post on Wednesday afternoon that she had passed. Her illness was unrelated to the coronavirus, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook it\u2019s hard to talk right now. Linda has passed on,\u201d Foley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe fought on as hard as she could. We just have to let all the grandkids know as it was so sudden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know all the press will focus on the other stuff but she was a special person and a fantastic grandparent who was devoted to her family,\u201d Foley added. \u201cPeople forget this part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewinsky expressed concern for Tripp and her family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cno matter the past, upon hearing that linda tripp is very seriously ill, i hope for her recovery. i can\u2019t imagine how difficult this is for her family,\u201d Lewinsky wrote in a tweet after news broke that Tripp was dying.<\/p>\n<p>Tripp, who has been called a \u201cwhistleblower\u201d for revealing the relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky, defended herself against the allegations in 2018, saying she regretted \u201cnot having the guts to do it sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was always about right and wrong, never left and right,\u201d\u00a0Tripp told the Washington Post\u00a0in an interview. \u201cIt was about exposing perjury and the obstruction of justice,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt was never about politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Tripp was a civil servant in the Pentagon when she became close to the then-22-year-old Lewinsky, who also worked in the public affairs office.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Tripp, whose secret conversations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, died on Wednesday, her son-in-law told The Post. She was 70. 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