The Hunting of the President :: President Bill Clinton

The Hunting of the President presented an argument by enkindle Thomason and Nickolas Perry that from 1990 to 2000 a group of people were committed to destroying the reputation of William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton. Through plump out testimonials, the claim is that this group of well-funded individuals as well as media attempted to accomplish from Clintons alleged misfortunes.The film begins with a narration that took place somewhat ten days before the 1992 presidential election, Andrew Cooper, a reporter from unexampled Zealand, is approached by a man named Everett Hamm. According to Cooper, who explains his horizontal surface to the television camera, Hamm explained that he was a part of a group called the Alliance for the Rebirth for an Independent the States (ARIA). The right-wing, well-funded organization, Cooper claimed, was dedicated to discrediting the Clinton family by any means possible. The filmmakers show a tall, bald-headed, burly man with a lot of shadow over his o rganisation to portray Hamm has a monstrous individual. Hamm and his well-known co-partner, lawyer Cliff Jackson, aforethought(ip) to do everything they could to hurt Clintons reputation.The filmmakers secernate that in 1988, the state of are hired an ex-jingle producer as a marketing representative by the name of Larry Nichols. The film makes it known that after it was discovered that Nichols was using his state office and resources to help fund the contras in Nicaragua, Governor Clinton fired Nichols. quaternity years later, in 1992, Star Magazine paid Nichols $50,000 for his story that Clinton had trip out with a group of women while Governor in the state of Arkansas. The camera immediately shows the front cover of Star Magazine and Nichols story about Clinton. All the women denied the affair happened, except one woman by the name of Gennifer Flowers. Flowers publicly claimed that she and Clinton had a 12-year relationship. The film presents Flowers standing at a podium wher e she t one-time(a) the press about her alleged affair with Clinton. However, the woman who happened to be a former recording artist at Nichols old recording studio eventually changed her story.The filmmakers also state that in disdainful 1993, two Arkansas troopers alleged that Clinton asked them to cover up numerous extracurricular liaisons while he was Governor. They were represented by a former Oxford class fellow of Clinton, Cliff Jackson. It is believed that the troopers had two motives for their allegations. Jackson told the troopers that he would cut them in on everything from magazine features to movie deals.