Clinton Cash

Hang in there, Bernie.

The night before the opening ceremonies [of the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia this summer], a film will be premiered in the city that portrays [Hillary Clinton] in a very different light from the official biography.

  Guardian

The hagiography.

In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film [Clinton Cash] seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.

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For the Clinton campaign it will have an air of deja vu, as they had to deal with the turbulence caused by the book [upon which it is based] in May 2015.

On that occasion they attempted to swat away its attacks by denouncing [author and film narrator] Schweizer’s work as a “smear project” that amounted to a “concerted effort to bring the Clinton Foundation down”.

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Schweizer was a speechwriter for former president George W Bush and coach to Sarah Palin on foreign affairs during her vice-presidential run, while the producer, Stephen Bannon, is a prominent creator of such rightwing favourites as the film Ronald Reagan and His Ranch and chairman of the Clinton-baiting Breitbart News.

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To advance their ambition to cross the partisan divide, Bannon said he would be staging test screenings in the run-up to the premiere with carefully selected groups of progressive advocates who care passionately about global warming and the environment, human rights and labour protection. “We think that people who dedicate their lives to these issues will be outraged by what they see.”

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“I think we’ll whip out that book because that book will become very pertinent. I’m surprised it hasn’t been used by Sanders,” [campaigning Donald] Trump said.

As long as that's all he whips out, and after this latest publicity about the nude Trump painting, I'm not holding my breath.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.