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Hillary Clinton's team "forced cuts to film about top aide", report claims
telegraph.co.uk ^

Posted on 01/22/2016 11:50:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Hillary Clinton's team "forced cuts to film about top aide", report claims By Robert Tait, Los Angeles 6:46PM GMT 22 Jan 2016

A new film about the marriage of Hillary Clinton's closest aide to a former Congressman mired in sex scandals was cut under pressure from the Democratic presidential candidate's associates, it has been alleged.

The documentary, Weiner, premieres at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday and highlights the fraught relationship between Huma Abedin, Mrs Clinton's confidante, and her husband, Anthony Weiner, as his bid to become New York mayor unravels over sex texting revelations.

However, the 90-minute film provoked political controversy even before it was publicly screened after the Hollywood Reporter claimed that scenes had been edited out showing Mrs Clinton's associates pressuring Ms Abedin to leave her husband.

"Multiple parties who viewed early cuts of the documentary say Clinton's team is seen trying to pressure Abedin to immediately cut ties with Weiner, fearing the scandal will hurt the secretary of state's bid for the White House," the magazine reported on its website.

"The footage is said to offer the kind of rare window into the cutthroat machinations of a presidential campaign that is typically reserved for such fictitious shows as House of Cards."

But Josh Kriegman, one of the two documentary's two directors, denied that Clinton's team appeared in the film, the report continued, "raising the question of whether it has been edited to expunge any fodder for the Republican Party".

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: huma; sundancefilmfestival; weiner
It's a Right Wing Conspiracy I tell ya......!!!!
1 posted on 01/22/2016 11:50:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Hillary forced to cut “Weiner.”


2 posted on 01/22/2016 11:52:57 AM PST by PJ-Comix (DUmmie Skinner: Bought & Paid For By Hillary)
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To: Sub-Driver

If she loses in the primary, maybe the cut parts will be reinserted.


3 posted on 01/22/2016 11:54:17 AM PST by Dante3
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To: PJ-Comix
 photo WEINERONDANGERDRIVE_zpsf7391e2c.jpg

4 posted on 01/22/2016 11:54:49 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Bill sleeps on his stomach.


5 posted on 01/22/2016 11:57:13 AM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Sub-Driver
"raising the question of whether it has been edited to expunge any fodder for the Republican Party".

No more fodder is needed! Sleazy slug Hillary is going down so fast now in all polls, I don't see how the piglet can sleep at night, roflmao!

6 posted on 01/22/2016 11:58:32 AM PST by Mr Apple (NO TO ALL ISLAMIC TOWEL HEAD MUSLIM RAPEFUGEES IN HALLOWEEN GOWNS !)
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To: Sub-Driver

Were the cuts made under the threats of Arkancide, killing the film-maker’s cat, or slashing the pretty legs of a jogging film producer?


7 posted on 01/22/2016 12:03:38 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Sub-Driver

If you can find the copies of “The Daily News”, and “The New York Post” of that timeframe, the references were well already in newsprint!


8 posted on 01/22/2016 12:04:14 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Sub-Driver

Who names a documentary WEINER?


9 posted on 01/22/2016 12:04:57 PM PST by doug from upland (Some of you keep telling yourself -- Romney would have been as bad or worse.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I would have told them to go to hell.


10 posted on 01/22/2016 12:07:43 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: doug from upland

11 posted on 01/22/2016 12:08:28 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Mr Apple

But don’t underestimate the Democrats for voting for the sleazy slug. They are “win at all costs” and integrity and truth mean nothing.


12 posted on 01/22/2016 12:09:34 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: PJ-Comix

Documentary = Doctoredmentary

Remember, the Truth is out there.


13 posted on 01/22/2016 12:24:32 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: Dante3
"maybe the cut parts will be reinserted"

Not sure you can do so easily.

14 posted on 01/22/2016 12:46:31 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Sub-Driver

he got 5% of the vote. What sort of audience do they expect?


15 posted on 01/22/2016 12:50:30 PM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: joshua c

“Bill sleeps on his stomach” in his own house located in a separate state than Shillary.


16 posted on 01/22/2016 1:22:35 PM PST by jayrunner
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To: doug from upland
Who names a documentary WEINER?

it'll propbly win a Little Oscar

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