With two thumbs up from Texas Gov. Rick Perry, New York Times best-selling author Denish D’Souza tells Newsmax.TV that his new documentary, “2016 — Obama’s America,” didn’t set out to lambaste President Barack Obama before the November election.

“Well the idea of the film here is not sort of a ‘Don’t vote for Obama’ film. It’s really more of a ‘Who is the real Obama?’ film,” D’Souza said in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. “It’s a film that sort of raises the curtain on this mysterious man in the White House, a man who is sort of different than other presidents we’ve had before.”

An impressive 82 percent of audience members liked the movie, according to the movie website Rotten Tomatoes, while former presidential hopeful Perry tweeted it’s “this summer's must see movie!!” after

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