Note that Lewinsky affair ended 1997, and in Jan 1998 the scandal broke right after Clinton pushed for law banning cloning. It appears to me that a reveal may have been happening and then MSM pushed a scandal as distraction, and then that backfired as that scandal was used as basis for impeachment.
Jan. 12: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr — who had been investigating Whitewater, a scandal-plagued Arkansas real-estate venture with which the Clintons had been involved — receives more than 20 hours of tapes of phone conversations that seem to contradict the affidavit. The tapes come from Linda Tripp, who had become close friends with Lewinsky in 1996 while the two worked in the Pentagon’s public affairs office, and to whom Lewinsky had confided about President Clinton.
04MAR 1997: https://www.c-span.org/video/?79341-1/human-cloning
Note that Lewinsky affair ended 1997, and in Jan 1998 the scandal broke right after Clinton pushed for law banning cloning. It appears to me that a reveal may have been happening and then MSM pushed a scandal as distraction, and then that backfired as that scandal was used as basis for impeachment.
11JAN 1998: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jan-11-mn-7229-story.html
12JAN 1998: https://time.com/5120561/bill-clinton-monica-lewinsky-timeline/