{"id":121442,"date":"2021-02-08T18:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121442"},"modified":"2021-02-08T19:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:12:41","slug":"actress-sarah-paulson-talks-finding-the-humanity-in-clinton-whistleblower-linda-tripp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-sarah-paulson-talks-finding-the-humanity-in-clinton-whistleblower-linda-tripp\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Sarah Paulson Talks \u2018Finding The Humanity\u2019 In Clinton Whistleblower Linda Tripp"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factress-sarah-paulson-talks-finding-the-humanity-in-clinton-whistleblower-linda-tripp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121442&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Paulson.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actress Sarah Paulson will be portraying Linda Tripp \u2013 a key figure in the 1998 President Clinton sex scandal that culminated in his impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives \u2013 in the upcoming season of \u201cAmerican Crime Story: Impeachment\u201d on FX. Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/02\/sarah-paulson-golden-globe-nominations-ratched-american-crime-story-impeachment-linda-tripp-1234686559\/\">Deadline<\/a>, the actress discussed the challenge of finding \u201cthe humanity\u201d of Tripp while portraying her.<\/p>\n<p>According to Paulson, who portrayed prosecutor Marcia Clarke in the previous season about the O.J. Simpson trial, she had to avoid sitting in judgment on Tripp for the role she played in the impeachment&nbsp; \u2013 a trick she learned while shooting \u201c12 Years a Slave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think about something that Steve McQueen said to me when we were shooting \u201912 Years a Slave\u2019 with him, how important it was for me to stand back from my own judgement of the character and to not sit in a space of judgement, and that it wouldn\u2019t help me play the part, and it wouldn\u2019t help me tell the story,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, I remember that from many years ago, and it\u2019s something I\u2019ve been reaching for on this part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike Marcia Clarke, who was so misunderstood and vilified erroneously, this story with Linda is much more complicated,\u201d she continued. \u201cI don\u2019t think a lot of people in life don\u2019t stand in the mirror and constantly assess what they\u2019re doing. I think Linda was just not one of those people who was, perhaps, not aware of just how far this story was going to go, and what her part was going be. It\u2019s totally challenging in a way that is very exciting to me as an actor, but it\u2019s not super easy to live inside of it as a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paulson added that the current impeachment trial of President Trump has not changed her perception of the material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not changed for me from our current political landscape,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m more interested in the gender dynamics that are in play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linda Tripp became a household name in the late-1990s after she recorded several conversations between herself and Monica Lewinsky about Lewinsky\u2019s affair with President Clinton. The discussion eventually gave way to a series of events that culminated in Clinton\u2019s impeachment. At one point, Tripp encouraged Lewinsky to document her relationship and keep the infamous semen-stained navy blue dress from being dry-cleaned. Tripp\u2019s tapes were turned over to independent counsel&nbsp;Kenneth Starr, and served as key evidence in a perjury case against the president.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post provided a detailed timeline of events:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\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<p>During their conversations, Lewinsky revealed that she had a physical relationship with Clinton when she was a White House intern, and Tripp began to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/1999\/12\/17\/monica-tripp-tapes-terrified-me\/\">secretly record their talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tripp also encouraged Lewinsky to document her relationship with the president.<\/p>\n<p>Tripp turned the tapes over to then-independent counsel Kenneth Starr in exchange for immunity from illegal wiretapping charges.<\/p>\n<p>She also told Starr about a key piece of evidence \u2013 the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/11\/13\/how-monica-lewinsky-finally-noticed-that-stain-on-her-dress\/\">semen-stained navy blue dress<\/a>&nbsp;Lewinsky said she wore during a sex act.<\/p>\n<p>Lewinsky had shown Tripp the dress and she encouraged her to keep it and not have it dry cleaned.<\/p>\n<p>Using the information on Tripp\u2019s recordings, Starr got approval from then-Attorney General Janet Reno and the special court overseeing the independent counsel to expand the investigation into the relationship between Lewinsky and the president.<\/p>\n<p>Lewinsky\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/07\/28\/linda-tripp-breaks-silence-after-nearly-20-years-unloads-on-hillary\/\">conversations laid the groundwork<\/a>&nbsp;for the perjury charges against Clinton, who had denied the affair.<\/p>\n<p>He was impeached by the House in December 1998 but was acquitted by the Senate in 1999.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time, and over the ensuing years, the media largely deemed Linda Tripp a vindictive partisan. Speaking with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/reliable-source\/wp\/2018\/07\/30\/linda-tripp-says-she-was-the-victim-of-a-real-high-tech-lynching-in-first-public-address-since-2000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;in 2018, Tripp said she only regrets \u201cnot having the guts to do it sooner,\u201d arguing she was a victim of a \u201chigh-tech lynching\u201d of her own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was always about right and wrong, never left and right,\u201d Tripp said. \u201cIt was about exposing perjury and the obstruction of justice. It was never about politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linda Tripp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/linda-tripp-key-figure-in-clinton-impeachment-dies-at-70-monica-lewinsky-responds\">died in April 2020<\/a> at the age of 70 from pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Sarah Paulson will be portraying Linda Tripp \u2013 a key figure in the 1998 President Clinton sex scandal that culminated in his impeachment in the U.S. House of Representatives &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892932,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5880,5855,5883,5881,3975,3745],"class_list":["post-121442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-actress","tag-clinton","tag-humanity","tag-paulson","tag-sarah","tag-talks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}