Hillary Clinton’s dirge of a memoir, What Happened, has been widely and thunderously criticized for its self-righteous buck-passing. But you would never know that from checking its Amazon rating, because the global retailer has deleted a flood of negative reviews of the book.

According to Newsbusters, the book was being eviscerated by one-star ratings on Amazon. Those were largely and promptly removed, leaving the latest book by the Saul Alinsky protege and failed 2016 presidential candidate with a score of 4.8 stars (out of 5) and a whopping 93 percent of the reviews coming in at the highest 5-star rating.

A company spokesperson for Amazon stated: "In the case of a memoir, the subject of the book is the author and their views. It’s not our role to decide what a customer would view as helpful or unhelpful in making their decision. We do however have mechanisms in place to ensure that the voices of many do not drown out the voices of a few.”

The voices of a few? Only a few praised the book, so Amazon deleted the critical many? If a book garners overwhelmingly 5-star reviews, does Amazon then delete them because they drown out the 1-star reviews? Is it seriously Amazon's policy to balance review scores on its products? Or is boosting Hillary's book an exception? If so, why?

Perhaps the fairest appraisal comes from David Weigel, who wrote in his review of What Happened for the (Amazon-owned) Washington Post: “The Hillary Clinton of this bitter memoir resembles the shrunken, beaten Richard Nixon who told David Frost that he gave his enemies a sword and ‘they twisted it with relish.’”

With such deceptive manipulation of the reception of Hillary’s book, Amazon is twisting something far worse than a knife: it’s twisting the truth.