Has Bill Clinton Pursuer Ken Starr Softened On His Old Adversary?

Baylor University President Ken Starr testifies at the House Committee on Education and Workforce on college athletes forming unions, on May 8, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
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Though Ken Starr is best known for relentlessly spearheading a string of highly politicized investigations of Bill Clinton, the former prosecutor now seems to have kind words for the former president.

During a panel discussion last week in Philadelphia, Starr called Clinton “the most gifted politician of the baby boomer generation,” according to the New York Times.

“His genuine empathy for human beings is absolutely clear,” he said. “It is powerful, it is palpable and the folks of Arkansas really understood that about him — that he genuinely cared. The ‘I feel your pain’ is absolutely genuine.”

Starr — whose ever-expanding investigations into Whitewater, the death of Vince Foster, and the Monica Lewinsky scandal ultimately led to the impeachment of Clinton — mentioned what he called the “unpleasantness” during the discussion last week.

“There are certain tragic dimensions which we all lament,” he said.

But he added that Clinton had taken part in a “redemptive process,” according to the New York Times.

“President Carter set a very high standard, which President Clinton clearly continues to follow,” Starr said.

Starr, now the president of Baylor University in Texas, did not mention Trump, but indicated he was concerned about the Republican presidential candidate’s popularity, according to the Times. He said he was worried about “the transnational emergence of almost radical populism, deep anger, a sense of dislocation.”

He also said that the “utter decline and erosion of civility and discourse” in politics has “troubling implications.”

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  1. Cheating on your wife isn’t illegal in this country, we don’t yet practice Sharia Law. Launching an unjustified war should be impreachable; obviously they zealously and prematurely shot their wad.

  2. Ken Starr’s true redemption will come when he endorses Hillary and actively campaigns for her, standing next to Hillary and Bill. Don’t hold your breath.

  3. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Maybe he ought to spend his time looking into his school’s football program. Baylor’s getting to the point where it’s not safe for women.

  4. He also said that the “utter decline and erosion of civility and discourse” in politics has “troubling implications.”

    Disappointed with the monster he enabled.

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