— “I got into every scandal as it was being hatched,” Linda Tripp tells Nancy Collins,
answering accusations that she tried to stir up scandal in the Clinton White House.

     It is Tripp’s first TV interview in nearly two years, airing tonight on ABCNEWS’ 20/20. She speaks
 candidly about what she saw while working behind the scenes in Washington as well as her two new
 facelifts and her much-publicized relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky.

 Reluctant Alliance

 Tripp claims to have not been friends with Lewinsky,

 Of course they weren't friends. Tripp has to put as much distance as she can between
 her and the woman she stabbed in the back to pretend she's not a friend-killer.

 ...explaining the former intern “accosted” her and “blurted out” her involvement with.
 She admits she was “completely fascinated and horrified at the same time.”
 While not interested in befriending a 22-year-old, Tripp became the intern’s confidante because,
 she says, “something kicked in with Monica, she was so completely needy.”

 You sure it wasn't your book deal that was "needy?"

 Tripp also knew Monica was well-connected and rebuffing her could be dangerous to her career.

 Oh, what a bunch of horseshit.
 Monica, the power-broker?
 Monica the king-maker?
 Monica has about as much brains as Reagan did.
 

 Tripp views Monica as an emotionally unstable young woman who was obsessed with the president.
 When describing an occasion of Clinton’s snubbing of the young woman, Tripp succumbs to tears.

 ha ha
 Linda Tripp, crying on cue for the 20/20 cameras?
 I can't decide which is the bigger whore - Tripp or Disney/ABC.
 

 When 20/20 presses Tripp on why she tape-recorded her conversations with Lewinsky, she defends
 herself, explaining that it was the only way to protect herself. She says, “I found myself in the crosshairs of
 the president of the United States ... Remember, I was going under oath, so was he, so was Monica.
 They were both going to lie. They said, essentially, I’m gonna be the one convicted for perjury.”

 But Linder - what if all you did was tell the truth?
 What if you didn't create a secret audio library that Hardon Kenny could replay, again and again,
 alone in his office, with his Smirnoff bottle open, zipper down, lonely night after lonely night?
 What if you didn't call Luci the Bat and arrange a lucrative book deal?
 What if you didn't call Hardon Kenny with all the juicy details?
 Until you hatched your little "Kill the King" scheme, you couldn't have possibly
 been in anybody's "crosshairs," you stupid cow.
 Like paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers and Kathleen Willey and Dolly Cow Browning and the others,
 you intentionally chose to run into the national spotlight screaming, "Look at me, me, me, me,me!"
 because you know thw right wing will throw millions at any slut with a story.
 ...and now that your plan failed and you're the most hated woman in the entire country,
 even hated more than Laura Schlessinger, now you claim your efforts were merely defensive?

 Nobody believes you, liar.
 That's why America still hates you, because America doesn't like liars.
 (Clinton's approval is still in the high 60's)

 'I Was Horrified'

 Tripp says she understands why many Americans view her as a modern-day Judas.

 Christ, I hope so. I just explained it in small words.

 But she argues that the White House portrayed her as a villain to discredit her testimony.

 But Linder, it would have been 1,000 percent impossible for the White House to have known
 what your testimony was going to be if you hadn't run into that spotlight screaming "Look at me."
 All you had to do was shut the hell up and tell what you thought was the truth.
 But the truth wouldn't sell any books, so you chose another path.

 She also broaches the subject of her appearance, saying her looks made it easy for the public to put her down.
 “I did not realize how ugly I was ‘till I saw the pictures,” she says, “I was horrified, as was the rest of the country.”
 Although she’s now comfortable with her looks, she says her plastic surgery did not heal her confidence.

 Tripp arrived in the White House in 1990 as a staffer in the Bush administration.
 She stayed on when the Clintons arrived and worked for more than a year as a floating secretary.

 ha ha
 I think that means she was big enough to be in the Macy's Parade.

 She says that it had been her dream to work in the West Wing, admitting
 “I would have cleaned the toilets with my tongue to work in the White House.”
 

 I did NOT make that up - that's a real quote.
 It gives us an idea of how far she'd go to frame Clinton, tho...
 Licking toilets clean?
 Linder, did you ever work for Jay Leno?
 He uses the same vivid imagery you do.

 Or was there something else you wished your tongue was cleaning?
 Were you jealous of Monica?
 The president liked Monica, but nobody likes you, Linder.
 Was jealousy behind your lying, your acts of betrayal and your back-stabbing?

 Under the new administration she says she witnessed an array of scandals almost immediately:
 Travelgate,

 ...was not a scandal.

 Vince Foster’s suicide,

 ...that was a suicide, not a scandal

 and Kathleen Willey’s encounter with the president.

 ...you mean Kathleen's money-seeking scheme that she hatched when she found out her idiot husband
 tricked her into co-signing a $300,000 loan that was about to go bust, that money-making scheme?

 Tripp’s private tape recordings of Lewinsky, which launched the Clinton impeachment scandal,
 arguably helped George W. Bush win the election in 2000. Now, no longer in the media spotlight,
 Tripp lives in rural Virginia and still works at the Pentagon. She recently shed 30 pounds,
 has had two rounds of cosmetic surgery, and claims to rarely think about Monica Lewinsky

 She was a lying back-stabber when we met her, she's did nothing but lie all through her little
 impeachment crusade with Hardon Kenny and she continues to lie today, hoping to alter her
 most-hated-bitch in America status.

 I think this calls for a John Goodman appearance on this week's Saturday Night Live.