Monica Lewinsky mocks Marco Rubio: ’Blaming the interns is so 1990’s'

Mr Rubio had tweaked a headline on a story written by a Politico intern

Ms Lewinsky mocked Mr Rubio with a reference to her own past ( KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)

Monica Lewinsky has called Senator Marco Rubio out after the Floridian took offence at an article criticising him, and noted that the author of the story is an intern at Politico.

Mr Rubio took to Twitter to tweak a story in that news outlet — “Rubio walks back criticism of GOP tax law” — and said that the title was misleading.

“Although written by intern at Politico, this article is a reminder of how difficult it can be to discuss policy in political press. Not only did I not back down on tax cut, I doubled down & added detail for rational,” Mr Rubio tweeted.

The article, which the website notes was written by an editorial intern, argues differently. Mr Rubio was highly critical of the tax bill just last week when he said that American workers did not receive as much out of the large corporate tax breaks as Republicans initially promised.

The article sayss that Mr Rubio then said the tax law “on the whole” helps most Americans.

Ms Lewinsky, who was at the centre of the sex scandal in the 1990s for having had an affair with then-President Bill Clinton while she was a White House intern, mocked Mr Rubio’s claim.

“Blaming the interns is so 1990’s,” Ms Lewinsky wrote on Twitter.

Mr Rubio’s initial criticism of the tax bill appeared to run counter to what leadership in the Republican Party has been saying about the overhaul. Mr Rubio said that, while Republicans promised that the tax bill would push corporations to invest in their workers, the companies had mostly bought back stocks of theirs.

Some corporations made headlines after the tax cuts were passed for giving bonuses to their employees, and in some cases for giving raises to employees.