In an unexpected continuation of the story about alleged Bill Clinton’s lobbying for his friend’s uranium business in Kazakhstan, the affair is expected to have even worse influence on the presidential campaign of the ex-president’s wife at the very end of the primaries on Tuesday.

As the media continue to chew on the Guistra-Clinton businesses, the nerves of the main figurant are seemingly on the verge - on Monday night he made harshly critical comments about a senior journalist of Vanity Fair, calling the staff writer Todd Purdum “a real dishonest reporter” and “sleazy” and also that the article contained “five or six blatant lies in it”, aimed to besmirch his wife while promoting her opponent, Barack Obama.

Later the same day, Clinton’s spokesman Jay Carson said the former president regretted his outburst but stood by his anger at the Vanity Fair article. He “was understandably upset about an outrageously unfair article, but the language today was inappropriate and he wishes he had not used it,” Carson said. However, it is already clear that Clinton’s anger has hurt his wife’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.