WASHINGTON: Dinesh D’Souza is back. This time with a film, which he calls a documentary, to take down Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. Predictably, Republicans are cheering loudly.
Donald Trump strongly recommended the film in a tweet Saturday with a two-word pitch -“see it ”— misspelling D’ Souza as “D’Sousa”, which, keeping in character, he hasn’t bothered to correct.
And Laura Ingraham, a firebrand conservative whose speech drew rapturous applause in Cleveland last week, retweeted Trump, saying everyone should see it before the elections.
Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, which opened this week, seeks to unmask the nominee and her party with the express purpose of causing her defeat.
D’Souza, an Indian-American who says in the film he left India (decades ago) to escape the gangs running it, ends the movie exhorting Americans to come out and vote to defeat Clinton.
As a convicted man, he adds, he cannot vote.
D’ Souza starts the film with his guilty verdict for violating election campaign contribution laws, which, he says was the Obama administration’s retribution for an earlier film. It was also a hit job, as the current one, called 2016: Obama’s America, was released a day before the Republican Party convention in 2012 that nominated Mitt Romney.
In that film, he reminds viewers — mostly old white men and women at a theatre in Democratic-leaning Maryland—he had predicted Obama’s real purpose was to enfeeble the US.
{{/usCountry}}In that film, he reminds viewers — mostly old white men and women at a theatre in Democratic-leaning Maryland—he had predicted Obama’s real purpose was to enfeeble the US.
{{/usCountry}}And he has been proven right, he claims. In a staged courtroom scene, a menacing judge sends D’Souza to jail, where he figures out, with the help of hardened con men, the scam Democrats are pulling on the country.
D’Souza was born in Mumbai, came to the US as an exchange student, went to Dartmouth, an Ivy League school, and stayed on, says his website dineshdsouza.com.
He worked as a policy analyst in President Ronald Reagan’s White House and ended up writing several books and making three films including his latest, Hillary’s America.