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Hillary Clinton: "Russian secret services still work for Trump"

2020-02-25T19:12:12.549Z


Democratic politics presents a series about his life at the Berlin Festival. Putin went for me, he wanted to defeat me, he affirms in a meeting with EL PAÍS and four other international media


Behind the sturdy wooden doors of a room at the Adlon Hotel, one of the most royal in Berlin, the laughter of Hillary Rodham Clinton is clearly heard. A group of European journalists awaits the former US secretary of state around a table in the suite's main room, while on the other side Clinton talks to the director of the Hillary documentary, Nanette Burstein, and two others. The singing voice is that of the former senator (Chicago, 72 years old), but above all her laughter is heard.

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Those laughs and that good humor are some of the details that illuminate the documentary series Hillary, with four chapters of 65 minutes each, produced by Hulu - Disney property - to release on its platform, and that makes a superb and incisive A journey through the life of a lawyer who was not the first president of the United States. Hillary , which is screened in the Special section of the Berlinale, has three sources of material: all the audiovisual about the life of its protagonist, 2,000 hours of recordings filmed by the candidate's team during the 15 months of the campaign that ended bringing Donald Trump to power, and interviews conducted by Burstein (who was offered the project, which he accepted in exchange for absolute control of the final result) to anyone who can contribute something.

From the same Hillary (gave 35 hours of interview in seven days in a row) and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, who cries remembering the Lewinsky affair, colleagues, subordinates, friends and journalists and even another former president, Barack Obama, who with a Single phrase sums up the terrible myth of Sisyphus in which Hillary Clinton's political life became, marked by a constant start over. “She is a victim of double standards. When he is in a position, his popularity levels skyrocket because of his firmness and his wisdom and that is exactly what turns against him when he presents himself to another position. ”

Clinton enters. Ask to be introduced to each journalist. Burstein says that his protagonist never rejected a question or vetoed a subject - and indeed, everything is spoken on screen - and in person the ex-sender is no less. About the newly convicted Harvey Weinstein says: “The jury has spoken clearly and it is time for him to be accountable. He donated money to my campaigns as he did with any Democratic candidate to any position. ” About the candidate Bernie Sanders is heard in a documentary conversation in the 2016 campaign: “It has been in Congress for decades. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him because he hasn't done anything. He is a career politician. ” Yesterday, in Berlin, Clinton explained: “I will support the Democratic candidate, whatever. We have had four bad years and if there are four others, it may be very difficult to recover from the damage. I have my opinion on Sanders, obviously ... and I will campaign for him. Any Democrat is better than Trump, a danger to democracy. But I would have liked that Sanders had supported me in 2016 as I supported Obama at the time and asked my people to support him. ”

Almost at the beginning of the documentary, the case of e-mails appears, the double account that Clinton used when she was secretary of state and that motivated an FBI investigation: “I never did anything illegal, nor did I give any classified information, nor did I skip any regulation, and it was a devastating issue for my campaign. When the echo of that maneuver was over, the FBI director returned to the subject 10 days after the presidential election and sank me. Three days later he said there was nothing, it was the same as always, but it was already late. The clear advantage it had in areas where it could have won disappeared. ” Do you feel that there was an organized conspiracy against her? "Of course! And meticulously calculated. For a year the Obama Administration considered how to make Russian interference public and how they were manipulating public opinion, and when they did, a few hours later, they stole and distributed emails from my campaign manager. There is no mystery. Russia used Wikileaks leaks to pollute people. ”

And it goes further: “It was a sophisticated, concerted operation. Putin went for me, he wanted to defeat me, and he is Trump's role model. Putin is surrounded and financed by the Russian oligarchy, has invaded three countries and has committed war crimes in Syria ... And Trump admires that leadership, he even likes no legislative or journalistic controls. ” The current president of the United States qualifies him as a "master of distraction and that is why he says 10 stupidities a day." For Clinton, "Russian secret services still work for the Trump campaign, because distraction is part of the strategy." And they have a perfect subscriber field: social networks. "We have to regulate the networks. In the US, half of the people are informed by Facebook and there is no control." As an example, he exposes a couple of lies used against her in campaign. "People are uninformed and that makes me doubt democracy. A study by the Ohio State University focused on Obama voters who later turned to Trump in that state found that they did it believing that I was very sick - and that that Sanders had a heart attack, a detail that confirms the difference in valuation between the sexes - or that Pope Francis supported Trump. All lies distributed through Facebook. And that is manipulative propaganda. "

Clinton is still surprised by "the overwhelming amount of ridiculous stories" that circulate about his life: "Conspiracy theories, diseases, crazy things spread through the networks." And that's why he wanted someone to see him from outside. “I have lived amazing experiences. But the documentary uses me as a magnifying glass to talk about decades of history. I hope that young people draw a conclusion: never give your rights as guaranteed. Never believe that the fight is over or that these freedoms are guaranteed. It is a struggle and I am a small part of that battle. ” On the future, he reflects: “I am optimistic, because I think it is the best way to live, but I am concerned with the growth of xenophobia, nationalism and populist movements. They are dominating the discourse and that makes democracy in danger. I understand that people feel fear, but solutions are not born from it and political leaders are there to create constructive dialogues. Not to scream furious. ”

Source: elparis

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