Since the movie was released and its numerous flaws became apparent to objective observers, True the Vote and D'Souza have engaged in multiple rounds of finger-pointing. When D'Souza's accompanying book was pulled from shelves and allegations about specific nonprofit groups stripped out, True the Vote denied that it had been involved in identifying those organizations. Now D'Souza notes that his analyses "operated in good faith and in reliance on True the Vote."…
Salem Media distributed "2,000 Mules," which claimed Democrats conspired to steal the 2020 election. Now the company has apologized and will halt any future distribution of the film...
"Defendants never had any means to connect this video footage of voters such as Andrews with their individualized cell phone geolocation data," it adds later. "... Moreover, Defendants appear to lack any surveillance footage that actually shows any individual depositing ballots at multiple locations."…
D'Souza had previously described left-wing nonprofits as "doing vote trafficking."
The newly-released book tones down that phrase to "potentially storing ballots."…
The film also claimed that True the Vote used data from the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) to show that the ballot "mules" were leftist agitators. A spokesperson for ACLED told NPR in May, "This is not the type of analysis you can use ACLED data for, and it is highly unlikely that these conclusions have any basis in fact."
D'Souza nonetheless repeats those claims in the book...
…Then the group got lucky, convincing filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza that they had data showing a widespread effort to collect and cast ballots in swing states. The result was "2000 Mules," a movie that became a sensation on the right this year because it offered what had long been missing: apparent evidence of enough fraud to have affected the election results.
In reality, of course, the film shows no such thing…
To be clear, there are no potential illegal activities revealed in conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza's film. It is centered around the idea that thousands of people were paid to submit ballots in drop boxes in the 2020 election — the titular "mules," described using a term meant to evoke drug smuggling — but completely fails to provide any evidence to that end. It certainly creates the impression that such activity occurred, which is the point, but that's by no means the same thing...
...Right-wing pseudo-historian Dinesh D'Souza did offer up his solution for conservative survival in Biden's America. "What I'm saying is we create our own culture. We live in it. And thanks to the Second Amendment, we defend it," he said, adding on Twitter that conservatives have to stop playing nice with their Democratic neighbors: "The left has concluded that we are the 'Party of Nice Guys' and continues to take advantage of us. It's time we fix that."...
Is the west founded on Judeo-Christian values like those such as Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Dennis Prager, Steven Crowder, and many others say? Did Christianity found the separation of church and state like Dinesh D'Souza claims? What does "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" mean? A contextual look at scripture, and a brief walk through the history of secularism illuminate the answers to all these questions.....
Dinesh D'Souza is a controversial right-wing figure who is a darling of the darkest parts of conservative circles. He's beloved for his books and films, which he claims expose the "true history" of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic party itself. .... https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1768440