Bill Clinton’s Memoir Riddled with Errors, Attempts to Rewrite History…Again
The Great Truth Bender from Arkansas
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Former President Bill Clinton is apparently obsessed with me. ~Peter Schweizer
In his new memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House, Clinton spends at least 1,500 words spread across four chapters accusing me of engineering his wife’s 2016 defeat, an electoral humiliation from which the Democratic Party continues to reel.
Clinton’s tale stands as a masterpiece of prevarication, beginning with his foundational whopper: that my 2015 book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, was “political propaganda designed to help elect far-right wolves in populist clothing.” Patently false.
I began my Clinton Cash investigation in 2013 while Hillary Clinton was still secretary of state—long before she and Donald Trump announced their candidacies. What drew me to the subject was the Clintons’ own financial disclosures (thank you, Bill!) which revealed that torrents of cash ebbed and flowed with the Clintons’ political power.
Particularly jarring was the fact that foreign cash—linked to corrupt countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine—surged once Hillary was able to affect her benefactors’ diplomatic interests (the obvious purpose of the Clintons’ international money-raising operation was made clear when, after her loss in the 2016 presidential race, donations to their foundation dropped to nearly nil.).
Much of Clinton’s focus is on a key revelation in Clinton Cash regarding the Russian takeover of strategically vital American uranium assets, subsequently confirmed in exposes by the New York Times and the Washington Post. The sale of American uranium to adversarial Russia was alarming enough; what made it scandalous was the fact that several Clinton cronies and megadonors were enriched by the deal. Such a strategically risky transaction required approval by Hillary’s State Department – which was granted.
Clinton baldly claims that there was no scandal there, employing the same dodge that Clinton defenders used when the scandal was first exposed – that Hillary Clinton did not personally approve the uranium deal. That, as the former president knows, is a distinction with no difference. In fact, it is not even a distinction. The required approval was handled by a State staffer who’d later be shown to have close ties to John Podesta, Clinton operative and Hillary’s campaign chairman.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and husband, Former President Bill Clinton address the audience at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting on September 22, 2014, in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
In one of his most preposterous claims, Clinton alleges, falsely, that my “book achieved its larger purpose when, amazingly, The New York Times and The Washington Post joined Fox in signing ‘exclusive’ agreements to use the book as a ‘resource’ for the campaigns, knowing full well whose payroll the author was on and his past work as a right-wing propagandist.”
Clinton somehow hopes you’ll believe that the New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, Bloomberg News, and many other left-leaning or mainstream outlets were operating as part of some vast right-wing conspiracy. He libels these outlets and me by alleging that we somehow colluded to take down his wife’s campaign. I signed no financial “agreements” or “partnerships” with the Times or the Post. That is an absurd lie.
Bestselling “Clinton Cash” author and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer. (Photo courtesy of GAI)
The truth is that those outlets reported on the enormous sum of cash that the Clintons received from foreign governments and businesses—hundreds of millions of dollars in total—because it was and remains a huge conflict-of-interest scandal….
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