Former President Bill Clinton is apparently obsessed with me.
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.