Bill Clinton keeps it civil when asked about death of Kenneth Starr, whose probe led to his impeachment

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Former President Bill Clinton kept things civil while discussing the death last week of Kenneth Starr, whose investigation led to Clinton’s 1999 impeachment.

“I read the obituary and I realized that his family loved him, and I think that’s something to be grateful for,” Clinton said in an interview aired Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”

Starr died Tuesday at age 76 due to complications from surgery.

“When your life is over, that’s all there is to say,” Clinton said.

Starr’s probe of Clinton began in 1994 when he was appointed to investigate the president and then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s roles in a complex real estate venture known as Whitewater.

But as the inquiry broadened over five years, Starr gathered evidence about Bill Clinton’s sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky — salacious details of which dominated headlines at the time.

Clinton was eventually impeached over charges including perjury, though the Senate voted against kicking him out of office.

The former president was more talkative when it came to his party’s prospects in the upcoming midterm elections, in which Democrats are fighting to maintain control of Congress.

“Absolutely, we could hold both these Houses, but we have to say the right things,” he said.

“The Republicans always close well. Why? Because they find some new way to scare the living daylights out of swing voters about something. That’s what they did in 2021, when they made critical race theory sound worse than smallpox.”

Clinton also lamented the hyper-partisan atmosphere of politics today.

“The break point in American politics is not that much different than the ‘90s,” he said. “You still have to get those people — it’s just that there’s so many fewer of them. Because as the parties have gotten more ideological and clear and somehow psychically intolerant, they pull more and more people towards the extremes.”

With News Wire Services