WASHINGTON — The surge of publicity surrounding Anthony Weiner’s sex-tainted mayoral campaign seems to have inspired someone to release long-hidden details of Bill Clinton’s scandalous relationship with Monica Lewinsky 16 years ago.
The National Enquirer yesterday revealed the contents of a tape recording it says Lewinsky, the former White House intern who just turned 40, made for the then-president in 1997 after Clinton cooled to her advances.
“I could take my clothes off and start . . . well . . . I know you wouldn’t enjoy that?” Lewinsky says in the recording, which the Enquirer said was delivered to Clinton at the White House.
“I hope to see you later and I hope you will follow my script and do what I want,” she says in the tape, which lasts less than four minutes.
The jolting reminder of Bill’s infamous sex scandal emerged as the Clintons are trying to distance themselves from Weiner, who is drawing constant unwelcome comparisons to the Clintons for cheating on wife Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton.
By the ultra-low standards set by Weiner’s crotch shots and crass come-ons to total strangers, Lewinsky’s flirtatious recording sounds like a tween romance novel.
“Since I know you will be alone tomorrow evening, I have two proposals for you, neither of which is you not seeing me,” Monica flirts, urging Clinton to pre-plan a rendezvous.
The Enquirer reports it got the tape from a confidential source who was hired as a “cleaner” by people “close to” Lewinsky more than a decade ago.