Linda Tripp, the famous whistleblower in the sex scandal involving Monica Lewinsky, whose secret recordings led to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, is dying in the hospital.
According to The New York Post, Tripp’s daughter posted on social media that her mother doesn’t have long to live.
She’s asking for prayers for Tripp and her family.
“My mommy is leaving this earth. I don’t 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,” Allison Tripp Foley reportedly posted to Facebook on Tuesday.
Tripp’s secret recordings of her conversations with Lewinsky led to the eventual 1998 impeachment of then-President Clinton. Lewinski and Tripp became friends while they worked in D.C., and Lewinski revealed she had become involved in a secret sexual affair with the president.
Tripp encouraged Lewinski to keep records of their relationship and to secure the infamous soiled blue dress.
Tripp became the whistleblower that eventually brought the evidence to special counsel Ken Starr, who later charged Clinton with perjury and obstruction of justice based on his lies about the affair while under oath.
The Democrat-controlled Senate acquitted Clinton in 1999 despite bipartisan support to have him removed from office.
When asked about regrets by The Washington Post in a 2018 interview, Tripp said she had only one: That she didn’t have “the guts to do it sooner.”
“It was always about right and wrong, never left and right,” Tripp said. “It was about exposing perjury and the obstruction of justice. It was never about politics.”
Tripp’s son-in-law asked for privacy and had no further details to share on her condition.
“I think right now it’s a family situation,” he told The Post.
Lewinsky responded to the report on social media Wednesday —
no matter the past, upon hearing that linda tripp is very seriously ill, i hope for her recovery. i can’t imagine how difficult this is for her family.
— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) April 8, 2020
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