前总统2月27日的会面恰好是所谓与实习生莫妮卡·莱温斯基事件发生29年后，该事件导致其被弹劾
作者：查尔斯·克雷茨
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年2月27日 美国东部时间下午12:24
前总统比尔·克林顿周五就爱泼斯坦案接受证词，这一天距离他与实习生发生著名的”蓝裙子”事件恰好29年。
1997年2月28日——也就是周六的29年前——克林顿据称在白宫与当时的实习生莫妮卡·莱温斯基发生了”蓝裙子”事件。
独立检察官肯尼思·斯塔尔向国会提交的正式报告在”物证”部分列出了这一日期。
斯塔尔致众议院的报告中写道：”物证最终证实总统与莱温斯基女士存在性关系。”
“1998年7月28日，莱温斯基与独立检察官办公室达成豁免和合作协议后，交出了一条藏青色裙子，她说这是她1997年2月28日与总统发生性行为时所穿。”
斯塔尔的报告称，当莱温斯基下次从衣柜里取出这条蓝裙子时，她”推测上面的污渍是总统的精液”。
这一发现促使斯塔尔办公室要求克林顿提供血液样本，1998年8月3日，克林顿在一名联邦调查局探员和斯塔尔的一名律师在场的情况下，在白宫地图室向一名医生提供了样本。
随后的两项检测得出结论：总统的DNA在裙子上被发现，且精液中的”基因标记”在78.7亿名白种男性中仅占1例。
比尔和希拉里·克林顿面对民主党要求爱泼斯坦案作证的’意外’
当克林顿就保拉·琼斯案接受证词时，他被问及是否与莱温斯基有过性接触，他予以否认。然而，2月28日的那次接触后来被斯塔尔用来指控克林顿在宣誓后撒谎。
1998年1月26日，在一场不相关的新闻发布会上，克林顿公开否认了这一绯闻：
“我想对美国人民说一件事：我要再说一遍。我没有和那个女人莱温斯基小姐发生性关系，”克林顿说。
“我从未告诉任何人说谎。一次都没有。从来没有。这些指控是虚假的，我需要回去为美国人民工作。”
克林顿后来遭到众议院弹劾，但参议院投票反对将其罢免。
记者笔记：克林顿夫妇在数月违抗传票后要求公开爱泼斯坦文件听证会
一幅描绘克林顿穿着莱温斯基的蓝裙子并摆出挑衅姿势的画作，被记录在司法部爱泼斯坦档案库的EFTA00000862页中。
这幅画最初在2019年被报道是在爱泼斯坦曼哈顿联排别墅内拍摄的。它并非克林顿委托绘制，也不是白宫图像。克林顿本人也否认知晓这幅独特作品。
同样在2月28日——这次是1989年——联邦当局实际上关闭了最终引发白水事件调查的金融公司。1989年2月28日，联邦当局将由克林顿盟友吉姆·麦克杜格尔拥有的麦迪逊担保储蓄贷款公司置于托管状态。该机构成为肯尼思·斯塔尔白水事件调查的开端，后来这一调查扩大到包括莱温斯基事件。在审查1994年开始的比尔和希拉里·克林顿与房地产交易的关联时（两人均被无罪释放），斯塔尔最终发现了总统与一名实习生的恋情以及随之而来的公开欺骗行为。
导致克林顿1998年被弹劾的事件始于十多年前，斯塔尔调查了一个名为”白水庄园”的度假社区项目中的房地产交易，该项目涉及未来的第一夫妇及其有政治关系的朋友吉姆和苏珊·麦克杜格尔成立的一家公司。
据《阿肯色百科全书》记载，克林顿夫妇和麦克杜格尔夫妇希望出售度假屋地块，但1979年利率升至近20%，让潜在买家望而却步。
吉姆·麦克杜格尔最终控制了一家后来更名为麦迪逊担保储蓄贷款公司的农村银行。
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斯塔尔最终调查了麦迪逊贷款是否与白水事件存在不当关联，以及麦克杜格尔的金融交易是否存在政治影响力。
克林顿夫妇均接受了调查，但从未因银行或白水事件被起诉，而麦克杜格尔夫妇以及克林顿的州长继任者吉姆·盖伊·塔克州长则被起诉。
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Flashback: Clinton deposed in Epstein case nearly 29 years to the day after ‘blue dress’ scandal
Former president’s February 27 sit-down comes exactly 29 years after alleged Monica Lewinsky encounter that led to impeachment
By Charles Creitz
Fox News
Published February 27, 2026 12:24pm EST
Former President Bill Clinton is sitting Friday for a deposition over the Epstein scandal nearly 29 years to the date of an infamous encounter with an intern that sparked a famous public denial.
On February 28, 1997 — 29 years from Saturday — Clinton allegedly had his “blue dress” encounter with then-intern Monica Lewinsky at the White House.
The official report from independent counsel Kenneth Starr to Congress lists the date in its section laying out “Physical Evidence.”
“Physical evidence conclusively establishes that the president and Ms. Lewinsky had a sexual relationship,” the referral from Starr to the House of Representatives reads.
“After reaching an immunity and cooperation agreement with the Office of the Independent Counsel on July 28, 1998, Ms. Lewinsky turned over a navy blue dress that she said she had worn during a sexual encounter with the President on February 28, 1997.”
Starr’s report went on to say that when Lewinsky next pulled the blue dress from her closet she “surmised that the stains” then appearing on it “were the president’s semen.”
That discovery led Starr’s office to request a blood sample from Clinton, which he provided to a physician in the White House Map Room on August 3, 1998, in the presence of an FBI agent and one of Starr’s attorneys.
Two subsequent tests concluded the president’s DNA was found on the dress and that “genetic markers” on the semen were characteristic of 1 out of 7.87 trillion Caucasian males.
BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON FACED ‘SURPRISE’ FROM DEMOCRATS CALLING FOR EPSTEIN TESTIMONY, SAYS REP COMER
When Clinton was deposed in the Paula Jones matter, he was asked whether he had sexual contact with Lewinsky, which he denied. The February 28 encounter, however, was later used by Starr to argue that Clinton had lied under oath.
Clinton publicly denied the affair at the end of an unrelated January 26, 1998, press conference:
“I want to say one thing to the American people: I’m going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” Clinton said.
“I never told anybody to lie. Not a single time. Never. These allegations are false, and I need to go back to work for the American people.”
Clinton was later impeached by the House, but the Senate voted against removing him from office.
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: CLINTONS CALL FOR OPEN EPSTEIN FILES HEARING AFTER MONTHS OF DEFYING SUBPOENAS
A painting depicting Clinton wearing Lewinsky’s blue dress and sitting in a provocative pose was recorded on page EFTA00000862 of the Justice Department’s Epstein Files cache.
The painting was originally reported in 2019 to have been photographed inside Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. It was not commissioned by Clinton and is not a White House image. Clinton himself also denied knowledge of the unique work.
Also on February 28 — this time in 1989 — federal authorities effectively shut down the financial firm that ultimately led to the Whitewater investigation. On February 28, 1989, federal authorities placed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, owned by Clinton ally Jim McDougal, into conservatorship. The entity became the genesis of Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation, which later expanded to include the Lewinsky matter. While scrutinizing Bill and Hillary Clinton’s connection to the real estate dealings beginning in 1994 — for which they were both exonerated — Starr ultimately uncovered a presidential affair with an intern and the public deceit that followed.
What resulted in Clinton’s 1998 impeachment began more than a decade earlier, as Starr examined real estate transactions in a resort community project called Whitewater Estates in the Ozarks that involved a company formed by the future first couple and their politically-connected friends Jim and Susan McDougal.
The Clintons and McDougals wanted to sell lots for vacation homes, but in 1979, interest rates rose to nearly 20%, leaving potential buyers wary, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
Jim McDougal eventually took control of a rural bank later renamed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan.
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Starr ultimately investigated whether loans from Madison were improperly connected to Whitewater, and whether or what political influence benefitted McDougals financial dealings.
The Clintons were both investigated but never charged in connection with the bank or Whitewater, but the McDougals were, along with Clinton’s gubernatorial successor, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker.
The Clinton Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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