Posted on 06/01/2024 11:04:58 AM PDT by GulliverSwift
Dinesh D’Souza’s movie that sought to prove former President Donald Trump’s fantasy that the 2020 election was stolen from him by widespread fraud has been debunked time and time again. Now, years after its release, its executive producer is retracting the film entirely.
Following the 2020 election, D’Souza released 2000 Mules as an attempt to justify Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden. Trump famously held a screening of the movie at his Mar-a-Lago estate and MAGA supporters promoted the film during it’s release in May 2022.
The film was produced by Salem Media Group, a conservative radio juggernaut that airs the likes of Sebastian Gorka and Charlie Kirk.
In a new statement, Salem apologized for the film and said it would cease distributing it. The move came after a man featured in the movie sued Salem for defamation.
The movie featured video showing the man, Mark Andrews, putting five ballots in a drop box in Lawrenceville, Georgia in 2020. D’Souza falsely claimed in the film that Andrews’ actions were criminal, describing the votes as “fraudulent.”
The statement from Salem blamed D’Souza for the smear.
“In publishing the film and the book, we relied on representations made to us by Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, Inc. (‘TTV’) that the individuals depicted in the videos provided to us by TTV, including Mr. Andrews, illegally deposited ballots,” the company said in a statement. “We have learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has cleared Mr. Andrews of illegal voting activity in connection with the event depicted in 2000 Mules.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
The truth is the left you pretend to hate is controlling your life with their stance on abortion.
If anyone is distracted from what's important to everyday people, it's YOU. You're a mindless nuisance with a one track mind and they know it.
You haven't changed anything in your favor. Things have only gotten worse.
exactly
The movie has not been debunked but one case , one man cite is wrong,Salem is afraid of lawsuits. Its exactly how they did it, hustling and filling in votes and dumping them by the thousands
“The claim is that he was depositing ballots for immediate family members. “
Is that why he took pictures of the ballots as he dropped them in the collection box?
That is his defense. It is impossible to prove otherwise, as long as the family members back him up.
“So all talk of total bans, or setting the limit to less than six weeks - should cease immediately.”
Well, is it OK for candidates to talk about limiting abortions after six weeks?
Shouldn’t Dinesh have done his homework then on such a crucial case? He talks big, but overall has proved to be a eunuch when it comes to impact.
The movie has NEVER been debunked because it is TRUE!
Thanks for the replies. For the film-makers not to have verified something that simple is appalling.
Abortion is a loser because so many middle of the road people are against total stops and most conservatives won’t get behind a middle of the road approach.
The best answer right now is Trump. The fact that our Republic has just been damaged at its foundations is the one thing that will motivate people who ignored politics in their day to day lives.
Well said.
I would add that those votes were apparently added while counting had supposedly stopped. How do you add thousands of votes without counting them?
I think you’re crazy.
In another article it said that he was putting in ballots for he and his wife and voting-aged children that lived at home. I have done the same.
Seems odd though that one would trash the entire movie rather than just removing that part, and perhaps do a more complete job of vetting the rest of the movie.
“He’s not controlled op, he’s just a Dravidian midwit that conservatives give far too much credence.”
Dinesh is definitely not smart, I agree with you there. But it seems very suspicious to me that a guy who is so moronic is given millions of dollars to make a movie which completely blew up in his face. This is why I think he’s controlled opposition. Not that he’s directly managed by leftists, but rather that they steer him in a discrediting direction and he goes for it.
“Thanks for the replies. For the film-makers not to have verified something that simple is appalling.”
I don’t know that they could have been able to determine who the individuals were without a facial recognition database. But this is why True the Vote declined to get involved legally. They did not endorse Dinesh’s claims that the people shown on camera had committed crimes. He decided to be reckless on his own.
The correct approach was to publicize the footage and then ask law enforcement to investigate. Dinesh did not do this. He was irresponsible and the company that paid him for the movie had to pay out a huge sum of money for slandering Andrews.
Those spikes in the late night ballots seems to me like it should be obvious to EVERYONE that the 2020 election was rigged.
Instead, Trump is convicted for election tampering over a book keeping entry.
“I hate to break it to you, but it’s Republicans too. An extremely low percentage of EITHER party approves of limiting abortions to less than six weeks. So all talk of total bans, or setting the limit to less than six weeks - should cease immediately.”
I hate to break it to you, but most people do not think the 2020 election was stolen by Biden. So all talk about it does not win votes. At least taking a stand for life is a matter of principle. 2020 obsessives have a losing issue that is not an ideological position so there is nothing to be gained by whining about it. And they also are harming Republicans by refusing to get onboard with mail ballots. We’ve already lost multiple elections because of this foolish nonsense about only voting on Election Day.
“That is his defense. It is impossible to prove otherwise, as long as the family members back him up.”
It’s more than that since the ballots of those individuals were recorded as being submitted on the same day as his, at the same location. It’s as circumstantial verification of their statements as you can get.
Which they all did.
“By the way— this is Mediaite! You have any NOTION of the provenance of their headline or any facts? Salem can apologize to avoid some Lawfare harrassment suit, but it cannot retract publicly owned and distributed versions of 2000 Mules.”
Are you really that credulous for the foreign grifter Dinesh? Anyone can read the Salem statement for themselves right here:
https://investor.salemmedia.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/847/salem-media-statement
It was never our intent that the publication of the 2000 Mules film and book would harm Mr. Andrews. We apologize for the hurt the inclusion of Mr. Andrews’ image in the movie, book, and promotional materials have caused Mr. Andrews and his family. We have removed the film from Salem’s platforms, and there will be no future distribution of the film or the book by Salem.
“Also, if Mike Lindell’s work is so.... false, then why did the demorat machine and bankers and various other threatened apparatchiks of obama and comany try to destroy his business.”
The lawsuits he is facing are from the companies who he has slandered. If someone spent millions of dollars saying that you were in a conspiracy with foreign countries to manipulate elections, you would sue them if you could afford to. Lindell just has a bunch of speculation, no actual proof. He is constantly shifting his beliefs after they keep collapsing. He should spend his time on bringing people to Christ rather than talking about things he does not understand.
Step away from the bong.
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