CBS made note of Lewinsky’s comments, and the imbalance of power, in its interview with Hillary Clinton. And in that moment, Clinton took a page out of Trump’s book, deflecting attention away from herself and onto her onetime opponent: “But let me ask you this: where’s the investigation of the current incumbent, against whom numerous allegations have been made, and which he dismisses, denies, and ridicules? So, there was an investigation [into President Clinton], and it, as I believe, came out in the right place.” (There was indeed an investigation of Bill Clinton, and it resulted in his impeachment by the House of Representatives, though the Senate declined to remove him from office. Regardless, he was nabbed on lying, not abuse of power or sexual misconduct, and it was not a criminal trial; no ”guilty” or “not guilty” verdict was ever rendered.)

The Clintons, as a unit, have not budged far from their 20-year-old positions: Hillary then stood by her husband at the time and even blamed herself, saying she had not been “sensitive enough” to her husband’s emotions. And over the weekend, she denied there was any extra layer of unseemliness afoot; Lewinsky was an adult at the time, she told CBS, disregarding the power imbalance entirely. Asked about the role she played in criticizing her husband’s accusers—one friend claims Hillary called Lewinsky “a narcissistic loony toon”—Hillary effectively closed the door on any reconsideration of history: “No role. I take responsibility for my life and my actions.”

Politicians are rarely allowed the luxury of wrestling publicly with moral gray areas, much less the Clintons, who have faced charges of moral turpitude—some entirely made up, some not—since the moment they first emerged in national politics. But this is an extraordinary time, with so much rage, hurt, and misunderstanding about behavior from decades past and present. Hillary Clinton clearly wants to redirect this pain toward Trump, a man who surely deserves it. But in this interview, as she has so many times, Clinton has proven to be a singularly imperfect vessel for all that.