Posted on 05/13/2022 1:24:55 PM PDT by Heartlander
On May 5, when Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote went on Tucker Carlson’s FOX News show to discuss election fraud, she very strangely did not mention the name of the movie, 2,000 MULES, she had produced with Dinesh D’Souza. The movie she thought she was there to promote, the one premiering that week.
Apparently, she’d been instructed not to.
The resulting conversation was bizarre. According to D’Souza, just before the interview, Tucker and producer Justin Wells quickly got with Engelbrecht and, incredibly, told her she couldn’t say the name of her film on the air. And she was forbidden to say the election was stolen. So if her speech during this interview seemed a little halting and unsure, it’s likely because she was self-editing on the fly.
The caption appearing onscreen was just “A Look Into What Happened in the 2020 Election.”
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1522410956395098114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed
D’Souza himself has a similar story: he’d been booked on Grant Stinchfield’s Newsmax show but was abruptly canceled. “...why isn’t this a legitimate news story?” he tweeted. “How can so-called news networks pretend it doesn’t exist?”
Unlike FOX News, Newsmax did respond, with this statement:
“Newsmax has covered ‘2000 Mules,’ including airing its trailer dozens of times, airing President Trump’s comments on it, and featuring ‘2000 Mules’ in our daily podcast. Also covered it on Newsmax.com.
We’ve allowed the for-profit ‘2000 Mules’ to run their ads on @Newsmax. We’ve extensively covered the 2020 election, its results, and President Trump’s challenges to the race. Voter integrity issues are of national importance.”
Why, yes, they are. Still, it would’ve been nice for them to explain the cancelation.
https://waynedupree.com/2022/05/znewsmax-2000-mules-dinesh/?yptr=yahoo
Needless to say, the left is loving this. I’ll spare you links to stories from Newsweek, The Daily Beast and other leftist outlets that call D’Souza a “far-right conspiracy theorist” (and worse) and his movie a “bizarre flick that baselessly claims the 2020 election was stolen,” and a “propaganda film peddling a wholly flawed and faulty premise about ballot fraud in the 2020 election.”
Really? We’ve read the so-called “fact”-checks and found them to be amusingly insufficient. Word to the not-wise: SAYING a claim is “debunked” is not the same as actually debunking. Some left-leaning news outlets are linking to the “debunk” from PolitiFact as if it were definitive. Their “fact”-check is laughable.
Yes, there are questions we’d ask about the claims in the film. We’d like to get experts on to go on record about how closely the geospatial cellphone tracking corresponds to a person’s movements. We’d also like to know if the filmmakers ever got security video of the same person at multiple drop boxes and if not, what the explanation for that would be. Of course, the same story is told when one cellphone ID shows up at different locations, but think how effective it would’ve been to see one person show up repeatedly!
If there weren’t such a media blackout on the movie, all this could be discussed in the light of day, on, say, FOX News. (Full disclosure: I’m a FOX News contributor.) That’s what the producers of this movie wanted. But as David Burge (Iowahawk) famously tweeted, “Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.”
My understanding is that most –- perhaps all? –- states require security cameras at drop boxes, but that many states ignore that requirement. Some states that do have cameras are withholding their video. And Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests are being ignored, as is typical.
But in other states, such as Arizona, there’s action. The sheriff of Yuma County, who was in the film, says his office is teaming with the county recorder to investigate 2020 election fraud. They announced Wednesday that as of March, they had 16 open voter fraud cases. Not only are they looking at 2020, but they’ve seen evidence of a “pattern” of fraudulent voter registration forms ahead of the 2022 primary election. Engelbrecht at True the Vote is encouraged.
“What has been happening in Yuma County is happening across the country,” she said. “The targeting of vulnerable communities and vote abuse must be stopped.”
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has already indicted half a dozen people for illegal ballot harvesting. And D’Souza told investigative reporter John Solomon that the alleged Yuma County “mule” interviewed in the movie is cooperating with authorities. “It seems to be a direct response to the work of both True the Vote and the movie,” D’Souza said.
Solomon goes on to report that despite the lack of media and being relegated to alternative platforms such as Locals and Rumble, 2,000 MULES has made over $10 million. D’Souza told him that in just five days, a million people have seen it, “which, for a political documentary, is like downright insane.”
Finally, for weekend reading, David Horowitz and John Perazzo have a must-read article about Mark Zuckerberg’s funding of that tax-exempt foundation, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), largely to pay for drop boxes. For Biden to win, by the teensiest margin in history, all they needed to do was spend his strategic influx of cash on “harvesting” ballots and getting them dropped into artfully-placed boxes. $350 million went to their “Safe Elections” Project --- as in, safe for the Democrat candidate? --- and another $69.5 million went to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), whose founder had been a director of People For The American Way. The money to both these foundations was funneled through yet another one, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which supports get-out-the-vote campaigns for the Democrat Party.
The article goes into much more detail about how they use these funds. They claim to be nonpartisan, but, clearly, that is a joke. In 2020, it was easy to use COVID as an excuse to do elections the “safe” way, which coincidentally made cheating safe, too, as easy as pie.
Read the whole thing and be shocked. The list of grants goes on and on, obviously targeted to help Democrats. As The Federalist has noted, “The practical effect of these massive, privately manipulated election-office funding disparities was to create a ‘shadow’ election system with a built-in structural bias that systematically favored Democratic voters over Republican voters.” It “essentially created a high-powered, concierge-like get-out-the-vote effort for Biden...”
And as the Internal Revenue Code unambiguously states, partisan political activity by non-profits is illegal.
This is the sort of conversation a movie like 2,000 MULES should be sparking in TV newsrooms. That would be real reporting, the lack of which is shameful. The political hacks at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS won’t permit it, and now we see they’re not the only ones who won’t. If this is some sort of “collusion” or “conspiracy” or “joint venture” among the powers that be, to maintain the illusion of an honest election process when we have something very different, then a REAL newsroom would distinguish itself by refusing to be a part of that.
I’m watching it tonight with a group of friends. Looking forward to it.
The width and breadth of the corruption in the media and our government is breathtaking. Maybe we deserve the nuclear holocaust that the Biden administration is steering us in to.
Fix News is just another outlet of the Ministry of Propaganda.
I’m still waiting for my DVD, was supposed to be shipped Sunday.
This morning was watch Fox News between 4am and 5am hosted by Carly Shimkus and Todd Pirro, they had David Webb on as a guest and he casually mentioned being in Mar a lago for the premier of 2000 Mules, nothing was made of it.
The media live in dire fear that their grip on the news is collapsing.
I started a thread here on the media response to it, and there was plenty of good discussion on the issue:
FREE REPUBLIC THREAD: 2000 Mules and Refutations of The Left (VANITY)
Here is a passage from your linked article, which should be on the side of D'Souza fully, but we get this: Yes, there are questions we’d ask about the claims in the film. We’d like to get experts on to go on record about how closely the geospatial cellphone tracking corresponds to a person’s movements. (NOTE: The Supreme Court and law enforcement have both said it is extremely accurate, far more accurate than the "tower triangulation" used in the past). We’d also like to know if the filmmakers ever got security video of the same person at multiple drop boxes and if not, what the explanation for that would be. (NOTE: In the documentary, they said they did indeed see the same person at multiple drop boxes) Of course, the same story is told when one cellphone ID shows up at different locations, but think how effective it would’ve been to see one person show up repeatedly!
My understanding is that most –- perhaps all? –- states require security cameras at drop boxes, but that many states ignore that requirement. (NOTE: There were states (Arizona) that had DELIBERATELY shut off video feeds at some dropboxes.) Some states that do have cameras are withholding their video. And Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests are being ignored, as is typical.
I am waiting as well.
Sigh. I had a close friend who refused to watch it when I invited him. He said he just couldn’t read, listen, or hear about it all anymore, even though he knows it happened.
I know what he means, but I cannot turn away.
The jackass media.
EVeryone should to to FOX news stores and paste links to the trailer...
Look at this, taking place at 2 AM, and then listen to the Leftists who intone with straight faces: "Oh, this could have been someone going to work, or going to the convenience store for milk..."
This is ONE person on ONE tracked route on ONE evening:
My feeling is this is a Fox verses Salem showdown. Salem has produced the movie in conjunction with DeSouza.
Why wouldn’t Fox want to promote even though Salem funded it??
What are they going to do when the real investigations get underway ? The Atlanta Journal Constitution is already on record that the traffickers in Mules were probably legal — delivering ballots for their friends and family. Didn’t even bother with the WAPO>
So you need to see this video to convince you that the election was stolen?
Tucker and Dinesh made up; https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1525203277742211073
On his tonight show, Tucker told Katherine he’d like to talk to her at greater length which tells me, his Today show where he gets away with pretty much anything. It’s fox news management or the Murdoch kids that are preventing any mention of 2000 Mules and the 2020 election in general.
I suspect that most people would not want to reinstate Trump as President, even if convinced that he won in 2020, so they deny any possibility of The Steal — and against plain logic and evidence.
So they will do anything to deny that proof of fraud, as their largest fears in the world — Russian invasions, not having vaccinated children, admitting that the Wu came from a lab, etc, etc. — are simply projections of Trump, their greatest fear.
And you didn't already know that the election was stolen?
“The resulting conversation was bizarre. According to D’Souza, just before the interview, Tucker and producer Justin Wells quickly got with Engelbrecht and, incredibly, told her she couldn’t say the name of her film on the air. And she was forbidden to say the election was stolen. So if her speech during this interview seemed a little halting and unsure, it’s likely because she was self-editing on the fly.
I saw that interview. It was strange. I thought, at the time, that Engelbrecht was just a bad interviewee. This article explains a lot. Shame on FNC.
Was the best documentary ever made. The size and scope of the fraud was incredible.
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