Hurricane Monica didn’t have to happen. A simple acknowledgment by President Clinton back in May 1994 that Paula Corbin Jones was so far as he knew of good character and had not engaged in any improper conduct would have prevented the filing of her lawsuit. Instead, a White House official attributed her delay in filing to the weakness of her case, and Mrs. Jones responded by rejecting the negotiated statement. The subsequent four years of legal wrangling gave Mrs. Jones’s legal team the time to track down so many Clinton paramours that you need a deck of trading cards to keep track of them. And now there is a whiff of impeachment in the air as the case of Jones v. Clinton finally goes to trial in Little Rock on May 27.
The Jones suit has convincingly made the case that the President is a reckless sexual predator, but there’s a pesky little legal problem still to be addressed. Mrs. Jones faces real difficulty in proving her case on the terms on which the suit was filed. Despite compelling evidence that Paula Corbin Jones is telling the truth about what happened at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock in 1991, her legal claim really is weak, as that White House official said, and Bob Bennett is likely to get the last laugh—at least in the courtroom.
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