‘Clinton Cash’ author wants do-over with ABC

The author of Clinton Cash wants another interview on ABC, after anchor George Stephanopoulos acknowledged he had donated to the Clinton Foundation without disclosing it on air.

Peter Schweizer, who wrote the book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation, said Thursday night that he wants another opportunity to discuss “the contents” of his controversial book on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

“Well, what I think ABC could do is: Let’s do another interview on the Sunday morning show to talk about the contents of the book,” Schweizer said during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News.

{mosads}Stephanopoulos apologized for not disclosing the donations in a statement first reported by Politico and The Washington Free Beacon earlier Thursday. On Friday morning, he offered an on-air apology during “Good Morning America,” which he co-hosts.

The ABC anchor and ex-political adviser to former President Clinton acknowledged Thursday he had donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation over three years, starting in 2012.

But Stephanopoulos did not disclose those donations during his testy April 26 interview with the Clinton Cash author on “This Week,” nor on subsequent broadcasts that included the foundation.

“Going into that interview, I kind of assumed that the relationship with the Clintons was in the past, that he had made this transition into the media, and it was a different chapter in his life,” Schweizer said on Fox News.

“It erases this question just about the coziness,” Schweizer added, referring to Stephanopoulos’s longstanding relationship with the Clintons, and citing the donations and recent notice that the ABC anchor participated in Clinton Global Initiative events in the past.

“How you can expect to be objective is really highly questionable in that kind of environment,” Schweizer said.

The Clinton Cash author noted that ABC’s investigative unit had done reporting on his book, along with other media outlets that were given full or partial copies of the book to report out its contents.

“They have substantiated what I found in the book,” he said, naming the work of Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk.