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Salem Apologizes, Retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s Debunked Election Fraud Movie ‘2000 Mules’
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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.”

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To: Brian Griffin

“Quickly debunked by factcheck.org” is the functional equivalent of saying “Plastic surgery by Jack the Ripper.”


181 posted on 06/02/2024 2:10:24 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: GulliverSwift

No. Just because an ignorant Democrat-loving tyrannical jackass like YOU can “read the press release from Salem” and decide that it means what YOU think it does, it doesn’t follow that ANYONE with a functioning brain will read it as you did.

You can’t even keep your ad hominem attacks in context when you call me a “Jim Hoft lover”, which is pretty pathetic. You are indeed a “Democrat-loving tyrannical jackass with no brain” which makes the label I apply to you a spot-on description.


182 posted on 06/02/2024 5:22:22 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Ignatz

I believe we should never deceive ourselves, and we should never deceive others for personal gain, but that in war, we often must hide our true intentions, lest our enemies lie in wait to ambush us. And make no mistake, we are fighting a war over abortion, and losing.

But imagine this:

Several years from now, President Trump has nominated you to replace Justice Thomas, and you are preparing to face Senate confirmation. Let’s say he knows you believe abortion is murder - that’s why he’s nominations you - to keep SCOTUS as pro-life as possible after Justice Thomas’ departure.

In his conversations with you, let’s say President Trump expresses the hope that you will be smart enough not to reveal your true believe - that abortion is murder - but instead will find a diplomatic way of answering such questions, which will not get you quickly rejected by a largely pro-abortion Senate.

Do you not see the wisdom in such counsel? Do you not see that by measuring their words carefully, pro-life politicians and SC nominees have a far better Che FR of getting elected or appointed to positions where they can potentially save millions of unborn babies from abortion.

And despite the white lie of omission, I think such people will do just fine on judgment day.


183 posted on 06/02/2024 8:12:41 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: DiogenesLamp

“Alleged. Claimed. Asserted.”

Confirmed


184 posted on 06/02/2024 8:36:32 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: DiogenesLamp

You just aren’t interested in any proof that doesn’t fit your emotions.


185 posted on 06/02/2024 8:40:48 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: DiogenesLamp

“I bet that if you checked, these particular “family members” will have no record of being sent a ballot.”

They checked. They were.


186 posted on 06/02/2024 8:41:59 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: DiogenesLamp

So give me some real proof, or stop making the claim.


187 posted on 06/02/2024 8:43:18 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: DiogenesLamp

So give me some real proof, or stop making the claim.


188 posted on 06/02/2024 8:44:07 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: JoSixChip
The proof it has been debunked is an article written that reports an article written that reports an article written that reports an article written that reports an article written debunked it by referencing an article. Pretty much proof positive in any NY court of law.

Yup. THat's how it works today. If any single claim out of hundreds can be disproven, the entire work has been "debunked". Additionally, once a given work has had the word "debunked" used in relation to it a few times, it has been 'debunked'.

189 posted on 06/02/2024 9:30:23 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: jeffersondem

“I remember when I drank my first beer.”

Indeed
same day as your first drunk right?


190 posted on 06/02/2024 1:53:35 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: GulliverSwift

So you use the Washington Compost as a source?

2000 Mules has not been debunked despite the hit pieces by the leftist media.

https://uncoverdc.com/2022/05/09/2000-mules-and-true-the-vote-debunk-ap-hit-piece


191 posted on 06/02/2024 2:56:03 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: TexasGator
Confirmed

Link? Show me proof that these absentee ballots were actually sent to these "family members". Also show me proof that these "family members" actually live at this man's house.

Claims by the guy trying to get our of trouble for vote fraud will *NOT* be accepted as "proof."

Show me real proof, or shut up.

192 posted on 06/03/2024 6:55:36 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TexasGator
You just aren’t interested in any proof that doesn’t fit your emotions.

I am not interested in any "proof" that is not actual proof. Claims by this guy and liberals repeating his claims, is *NOT* proof.

Proof is official records showing these ballots were sent to those people, and that those people actually live at that address.

193 posted on 06/03/2024 6:57:04 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TexasGator
They checked. They were.

Good. Then you can show me where this is specifically written that they verified that absentee ballots were sent to these specific people registered to vote at his address.

I don't think you have any such proof. I think you are just regurgitating the claim that because they *COUNTED* ballots that this means it's legit.

Show me where they were sent such ballots, and I will concede the point.

"They" is probably the same collection of liberal liars that only fools would trust to tell the truth.

194 posted on 06/03/2024 6:59:39 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TexasGator
So give me some real proof, or stop making the claim.

You should hold your breath while I go do that.

195 posted on 06/03/2024 7:02:04 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TexasGator; GulliverSwift; kiryandil; jeffersondem; rlmorel
Obituaries CONFIRM beyond the shadow of a doubt, the dead voted in the 2020 Presidential Election,

"17, 327 MAiL IN BALLOTS that were sent out to the dead. Obituaries confirm they were still dead on November 3, and still voted in the Michigan General 2020 election.“Check for yourself.”

196 posted on 06/03/2024 8:55:49 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Oh - you're arguing with TrollAGator?

Ask him how his boy in Waco, Abel Reyna, is doing these days.  

197 posted on 06/03/2024 9:53:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: DiogenesLamp; TexasGator; GulliverSwift; kiryandil; jeffersondem

There are people who have a nearly pathological need to believe no election fraud occurred in the 2020 election.

I surely didn’t want to believe it…initially.

Some of those people are like me, unwilling to believe this terrible state of affairs have occured in this Republic of ours.

Some of us are totally against the existence of Donald Trump, and believe that weak minded people are grasping at straws in our refusal to accept Joe Biden got 81 million votes, even though he rarely left his basement, and could get no more than a handful of people when he did.

Some of us think we know more than others, and are going to bind to that no matter what our eyes or ears tell us. These are generally the kind of people who might see a clip of people stuffing so many ballots into a box that they spill over and fall on the ground, and when they hear one Leftist, in cahoots with the Leftists at the Communist front group Protecting Democracy saying they did nothing wrong, they latch onto that and proclaim “See? I told you that ‘2000 Mules” is a total fraud perpetrated by grifters Dinesh D’Souza and True The Vote. For some reason this appears to be the most common variant here on Free Republic.

And some of us are Leftists or RINOs, and fully understand that fraud occurred, but wish to gaslight everyone to muddy the waters.

And lastly, there are some who just want to sow chaos and dissension. In other words, trolls.


198 posted on 06/04/2024 5:57:20 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rlmorel; kiryandil; GulliverSwift; TexasGator
Some of us are totally against the existence of Donald Trump, and believe that weak minded people are grasping at straws in our refusal to accept Joe Biden got 81 million votes, even though he rarely left his basement, and could get no more than a handful of people when he did.

Some of us think we know more than others, and are going to bind to that no matter what our eyes or ears tell us.

For much of my life I was unaware of this phenomena. I have only come to a larger awareness of it in the last few years, and now I consider it to be one of the most difficult problems rational men face.

How do you present information to people in such a way that they will consider it objectively? In most cases, if it goes against "conventional wisdom" it is simply rejected, no matter how much proof exists to support it.

We see this phenomena in the public's acceptance of "Global Warming" and "Trans" stuff.

I acquired what I consider to be good insight on this phenomena when I learned of the Asch conformity experiments. What these psychological experiments revealed is that 80% of people will claim to believe something if they think this is what the majority believe.

The media-lie-system takes advantage of this characteristic of human nature by creating the illusion that a "majority" of people believe something, and they do this because they know full well that many people will then adjust their beliefs to conform to what they perceive as the majority.

This is how liberals stay in power. That media-lie-system is a weapon or a tool to keep them in power. If they didn't have it, Liberals would be a weak minority in elected office.

But yes, there are a lot of people that want to believe something so strongly, that they will simply reject anything that doesn't support what they wish to believe.

And we have a lot of them on Free Republic.

199 posted on 06/04/2024 7:19:38 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: rlmorel
“There are people who have a nearly pathological need to believe no election fraud occurred in the 2020 election.”

Election fraud has probably occurred in every election ever held. In the adjacent county east of us - with a population of about 8,000 - a man went to jail about 15 years ago for vote buying.

Same thing happened in a rural county south of us; one or two went to jail for vote buying within the last 10 years.

It happens.

Exactly how much corruption there was in the 2020 presidential election is unknown to me; probably a lot. There was also a large corruption of the 2020 election when Democrats schemed, again, to launder federal budget monies to influence voting patterns.

That said, we need to understand the significance of the fact that perhaps over half of Americans of voting age have been rendered incapable of voting intelligently because we have lost the cultural wars that few on our side wanted to fight.

Dumb people don't usually vote smart; they don't live smart. Hate to say it. It will not be easy to overcome this. There will be a time in the future, if we are not there already, when democrats can win on the national level by simply promising dumb people dumb things.

200 posted on 06/04/2024 9:08:17 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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