That would be my guess too. Some sharp person read an early proof or bound copy and warned D’Souza or the publisher that there was an actionable statement about somebody in there.
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Here’s what’s in the book:
D’Souza names nonprofits that he claims helped ‘steal’ the 2020 election
The central thesis of “2,000 Mules” is essentially that left-wing nonprofit groups engaged in illegal ballot trafficking and paid people (the “mules” of the title) to gather ballots and stuff dropboxes with pro-Biden votes. To build that case, “2,000 Mules” relies on True the Vote, which claims that it used cell phone location data to prove its case.
The film version of “2,000 Mules” does not name a single nonprofit that D’Souza or True the Vote allege took part in the alleged scheme, let alone give them a chance to respond to the accusation that they committed crimes.
D’Souza told interviewers that the reason for the omission was due to legal concerns.
“Basically, when you’re putting a movie in the theater, you need three different types of insurance,” D’Souza told Megyn Kelly on her podcast earlier this year. “And so we got into a big fight with these lawyers who insisted that we can’t name the nonprofits. Now, normally, I would have battled them over this. But the problem was I was trying to get the movie out right away because it’s so timely.”
The book, however, does name seven different groups. NPR contacted all of them for comment.
One of the groups D’Souza names is the New Georgia Project, an Atlanta-based group that focuses on registering and mobilizing young voters and voters of color.
Aklima Khondoker, the Chief Legal Officer for the New Georgia Project, called the allegations “malarkey and hogwash. Because they’re not based in fact. They’re based on conspiracy theories.”
Khondoker said the allegations in D’Souza’s book “can be viewed as libelous,” and noted that neither True The Vote nor D’Souza contacted the New Georgia Project for comment - a fundamental step for any journalistic or documentary project.
Khondoker declined to say whether the New Georgia Project would take legal action in response to the book, but said, “It sounds like a bunch of lies committed to paper. And there are legal consequences for doing that.”
A spokesperson for the labor union the National Education Association (NEA), which D’Souza also names in the book, condemned the allegations as “trash,” noting that D’Souza’s attorneys apparently would not allow him to name any groups in his film.
“We would hope anyone looking at his nonsense can quickly see that these claims are false and designed to gin up those who persist in peddling the Big Lie about the 2020 election,” said the NEA spokesperson.
Other groups declined to comment, with one citing a desire not to give the project “further oxygen.” Given the dubious nature of the allegations, NPR is not naming the groups that did not comment.
NPR asked True the Vote whether it provided the names of the groups to D’Souza. Brian Glicklich, the group’s spokesperson, did not answer that question directly, but simply re-sent the group’s statement with “We made no such allegations” in bold.
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