The film begins with scenes from the San Diego halfway house where D’Souza was confined nightly in fulfillment of his sentenced for pleading guilty to violations of federal campaign-finance law. Many conservatives claimed the Obama administration was exacting revenge on D’Souza for criticizing the president in “2016: Obama’s America.” Gerald R. Molen, producer of D’Souza’s two previous films, told WND in January 2015 the charges were “the equivalent of prosecuting a political dissident in the Soviet Union for jaywalking.”
As WND reported last November, during his confinement, D’Souza wrote his most recent bestselling book, “Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught me About Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party.”