Former President Bill Clinton’s scandalous presidency was as vulgar as Donald Trump’s current crudeness, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski said Thursday.
"Let's not pretend some of this stuff is new and all of a sudden vulgar because it's Donald Trump," Brzezinski said on Morning Joe. "Vulgar people come in different shapes and sizes."
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough said that profanity ruled politics "especially" from 1998 to 2000, when all eyes were on President Clinton for his affair with young White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
"I know I had kids in middle school ... that was actually beyond PG-13," Scarborough said, and Brzezinski agreed.
Brzezinski also noted that politics was crude in 1992, when then-Arkansas Gov. Clinton was accused of having a 12-year affair with Gennifer Flowers.
"You probably didn't want to watch politics back in 1992," Brzezinski said.
In response to Flowers’ allegations, he admitted that his marriage to Hillary was rocky, saying in a 60 Minutes interview, "I have acknowledged causing pain in my marriage." When he was hit with the Lewinsky affair and accompanying sexual harassment case as president years later, Clinton admitted that he had had a sexual encounter with Flowers.
In addition to Bill Clinton’s affairs with Lewinsky and Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Jones have accused Clinton of sexual assault and harassment. Aside from Bill’s womanizing tendencies, Hillary Clinton is currently facing an FBI investigation for her use of a home-brew email server as secretary of state. Both Bill and Hillary have also made millions of dollars in Wall Street speeches while refusing to release speech transcripts.
Partly as a result of the couple's involvement in numerous scandals, Hillary Clinton has consistently polled low in trustworthiness throughout her 2016 bid for president.
Clinton leads in the overall delegate count for the Democratic nomination, but she took yet another loss against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in Wisconsin.