The crimes are Bill Clinton’s, but the punishment is mostly borne by the women unlucky enough to find themselves in his proximity. amandamwhiting recaps this week's 'Impeachment: American Crime Story'
American Crime Story The Grand Jury Season 3 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next Photo: Tina Thorpe/FX/ Juanita Broaddrick comes forward with the allegation that Bill Clinton raped her back when he was running for governor and she was a campaign volunteer. . It’s a bombshell claim, but for Ken Starr, it’s lowkey inconvenient. He wants to charge Bill with lying and abusing his power; rape is too distracting.
Alas, she falls in line by the end of the day, for who can resist Bill’s Tin Man routine, how the sorrow renders his drawl even drawlier as he laments his fate as Andrew Johnson, part deux. Hillary offers to call Rep. Jim Moran and persuade him to close rank on impeachment. This isn’t about Bill’s affair anymore; it’s about showing the GOP that hunting season is over.
Before she can defend herself without endangering her immunity deal, though, Linda still has to testify in front of the grand jury, which is made up of 23 people who absolutely hate her guts. They hate her descriptions of Monica’s neediness and volatility as a friend, which sound self-serving despite being accurate. They sensibly question why, if Monica was so annoying, Linda didn’t simply ask her to stop calling.
When it’s time to testify about the day Starr’s team held her at the Ritz, Monica asks Mike to leave — a move that speaks succinctly and affectingly to how threatened and confined she must have felt that day. The jury is putty in her hands. At the end, when they ask Monica if she has anything else to say, she apologizes profusely for the affair. As she did in real life, Monica adds with a flourish: “And I hate Linda Tripp.
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