A year ago, before Donald Trump dubbed her “Crooked Hillary” and Bernie Sanders was assailing her “secretive speeches” to Wall Street banks, Hillary Clinton looked like a powerful presidential front-runner.
Then, HarperCollins published an “investigative” book about the Clintons by conservative author Peter Schweizer “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich” that caught them “off guard,” took a prominent place in “political” conversations for months and became a “surprise” bestseller.
Now “Clinton Cash” has been made into a “documentary” film, directed by M.A. Taylor, that will “premiere” next month in Cannes, France, during the “Cannes Film Festival.”
The movie is not a “part” of the festival, but will be shown at a special “screening” arranged for distributors.
As the trailer preview indicates, the “Clinton Cash Movie” featuring “blood-drenched” money, “radical” madrassas, and “ominous” footage of the Clintons:
“It’s a story that resonated with people on the printed page,” said Schweizer. “We felt we needed to look at other platforms, too. The key is to engage voters. If you look at what’s motivating Trump and Sanders fans, it’s disgust with cronyism and corruption in Washington.”
Trump, for one, sounds likely to amplify the book’s “criticism” against Clinton during the general-election campaign. The Republican front-runner said in an interview on SiriusXM radio, “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.”
According to Bannon, the film’s U.S. “premiere” will be held in Philadelphia on July 24 on the eve of the “Democratic National Convention.”
During the first week of August, he added, it will have a “limited” release in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco.
The following is the press release about the film.
“Clinton Cash,” a documentary based on the Peter Schweizer book the New York Times hailed as “the most anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle.
“Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” published May 2015 by HarperCollins, dominated “headlines” for months as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall St. Journal and others confirmed the book’s “investigative revelations of foreign donors and companies funneling tens of millions of dollars to Hillary and Bill Clinton.”
As Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig wrote in the Washington Post, “On any fair reading, the pattern of behavior that Schweizer has charged is corruption.”
Author Peter Schweizer researched donations made to Clinton’s Foundation and was noted by the Times for “meticulously” documenting his sources.
Schweizer is editor-at-large of Breitbart News. The author of four New York Times bestsellers, including “Clinton Cash,” and “Throw Them All Out,” Schweizer’s investigative reporting has been “covered” by virtually every major U.S. media outlet, including: “60 Minutes, The New York Times, NPR, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CNN, Forbes, Newsweek, Fox News, Politico, MSNBC, myriad others.”
“Clinton Cash” investigates how Bill and Hillary Clinton went from being “dead broke” after leaving the White House to “amassing” a net worth of over $150 million, with $2 billion in “donations” to their foundation, “wealth” accumulated during Mrs. Clinton’s “tenure” as Secretary of State through “lucrative” speaking fees and contracts paid for by “foreign companies and Clinton Foundation donors.”
In light of her presidential bid, the Clinton Foundation has stopped accepting donations from most governments, notably Saudi Arabia. Pictured above is Clinton while Secretary of State standing with her counterparts from Saudi Arabia (right) and Kuwait (left)
“Clinton Cash” has been lauded by top progressives for its exposure of “crony capitalism and self-enrichment.” Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University Earth Institute Director, called it “compelling reading on how Bill and Hillary have mixed personal wealth, power, and influence peddling.”
Daily Beast columnist Eleanor Clift calls Schweizer “an equal-opportunity investigator, snaring Republicans as well as Democrats.”
And Demos Senior Fellow Nomi Prins says Clinton Cash “provides a damning portrait of elite and circumspect power and influence.”
Clinton Cash is set to spell out a trend whereby big money donors to the Clinton Foundation found U.S. policies coming out of the State Department shift in their favor.
Peter Schweizer, who says of the film, “Cronyism and self-enrichment are a bipartisan affair, and Hillary and Bill Clinton have perfected them on a global scale” will be in Cannes and have its U.S. premiere the week of the Democratic convention.
Also attending is Stephen K. Bannon, writer and producer of “Clinton Cash” Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker, is the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News and was “dubbed” by Bloomberg as “the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America.”
Bannon says, “This film must be seen by every liberal, progressive, and independent voter in America, and the world, to fully realize the degree to which the Clinton’s are nothing more than high class grifters.”
Dan Fleuette, producer of “Clinton Cash, Occupy Unmasked,” and “Los Abandonados,” will also be at the festival.
Global sales are being represented by Mark Holdom of ARC Entertainment.
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