So a common criticism of Republicans on the Atlas seems to be the overuse of the "but... but muh emails" argument. However, as someone with little experience with what this is all about (I wasn't alive at the time), it seems like that is exactly what all the red avatars are using on this post. Honestly, the two things I have read are "well Trump's bad too" and "looks like the Trumpkins are in panic mode". Where are the facts? Where are the refutations? Come on people, you can do better then that.
I'll bite. Kathleen Willey, who started this website, had told some major sex-related proven lies in the past (in fact she'd confessed to doing so), her testimony was inconsistent over time and also inconsistent with what Linda Tripp claimed Kathleen had told her. Furthermore, Julie Steele wrote an affidavit that Willey had asked her to lie about Clinton as well. Why should we believe the known big-league liar who can't keep her story straight over her friend who has no such problems and no ulterior motivations (note that Willey waited five years after the assault, until Linda Tripp was on the hunt and needed a case, to come out with her allegations)?
As for Linda Tripp, other than Kathleen Willey she has no actual rape charges to bring against Bill and her only claim to fame is that she secretly wiretapped a conversation Monica Lewinsky had about her
consensual, desired sex with Clinton and then released it, to Lewinsky's neverending humiliation and shock, to further her own selfish goals. That's unethical. Tripp also had a criminal background that she lied about on her government application, and after the whole scandal was over she tried to convince everyone that it was retaliation when she was let go along with the rest of the Clinton administration on the day George W. Bush took office. Additionally, if you actually go back to 1998 and read or listen to Tripp, it's very clear that she just plain hates Clinton and is out to get him from the get go. She claimed to be able to prove all of Clinton's scandals, but everyone ignored her on those, and (what a shock) she never bothered to actually release any of her supposedly damning evidence, even though she had no problem releasing a wiretap of an innocent young woman to destroy her life.
So what we have is one woman, a liar, criminal, deeply unethical, with a major grudge against Clinton, who desperately wanted to make his phony scandals become reality. This one woman is clinging to the testimony of another woman, testimony that has changed multiple times, that her close friend has said is a lie, and that is being given by someone who has told major, major lies in the past. There is no evidence to support either of their claims that this is a real story, and the circumstantial evidence is overwhelmingly against them.
That was true at the time and it's true now, regardless of how much time people have had to forget why they were all on Clinton's side at the time. The only reason this blew up into an impeachment scandal had nothing to do with rape and everything to do with the fact that Clinton was so sick of the rape allegations that when they finally found out about some consensual sex he had, he tried to kill the story and it backfired into perjury.
