Posted on 12/02/2024 3:02:13 PM PST by Twotone
Conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza issued an apology Monday to a man who appeared in his documentary 2000 Mules for inaccurately depicting him as an election fraud mule.
The documentary, released in 2022, alleged that the 2020 election results were affected by thousands of people who were paid to collect ballots in swing states, including Georgia, where Mark Andrews was filmed dropping off five ballots in a box. While Andrews was dropping off the ballots of his household, which included his three adult children and his wife, his face was blurred in the film as he was implied to be a part of the scheme.
D’Souza issued a statement on his website dedicated to the documentary. As the filmmaker, D’Souza said the cellphone geolocation information depicted in the film, along with the surveillance video, was provided to him by the organization True the Vote. He explained that he recently learned the two pieces of data and the video “may not have actually been correlated.”
“I owe this individual, Mark Andrews, an apology. I now understand that the surveillance videos used in the film were characterized on the basis of inaccurate information provided to me and my team. If I had known then that the videos were not linked to geolocation data, I would have clarified this and produced and edited the film differently,” D’Souza said. “I make this apology not under the terms of a settlement agreement or other duress, but because it is the right thing to do, given what we have now learned. While I do not believe Mr. Andrews was ever identified by the film or book, I am sorry for any harm he believes he and his family has suffered as a result of 2000 Mules.”
Andrews filed a federal lawsuit against D’Souza over the matter two years ago. As a result, even the documentary’s publisher, Salem Media Group, issued an apology to Andrews shortly after. However, True the Vote made clear this was a mistake made by the film producers in an effort to glamorize the premise.
“The central premise of 2000 Mules, as identified and validated by True the Vote’s research, remains accurate. However, regarding the individual mentioned in Mr. D’Souza’s statement, TTV had no editorial control over the ‘2000 Mules’ movie and no involvement in the books,” True the Vote’s statement read. “We did not select videos or graphics used for dramatic effect. This individual was not part of the geospatial study in which TTV identified 242 unique devices having visited at least 10 ballot drop boxes—a fact that was communicated to Mr. D’Souza’s team.”
Despite the apology, D’Souza maintained “that the 2020 election was not the ‘most secure election in US history’ — far from it! — and that there was systematic election fraud sufficient to call the outcome into question.”
2000 Mules grossed more than $1 million in its first 12 hours of streaming before entering select theaters.
True the Vote Response to D'Souza Media Statement on '2000 Mules'
We recently became aware that Mr. D’Souza issued a statement regarding the movie ‘2000 Mules’ and a case currently in litigation. We provide this clarification on his statement:
The central premise of ‘2000 Mules’, as identified and validated by True the Vote’s (TTV) research, remains accurate. However, regarding the individual mentioned in Mr. D’Souza’s statement, TTV had no editorial control over the ‘2000 Mules’ movie and no involvement in the books. We did not select videos or graphics used for dramatic effect. This individual was not part of the geospatial study in which TTV identified 242 unique devices having visited at least 10 ballot drop boxes—a fact that was communicated to Mr. D’Souza’s team. Despite this, D’Souza’s team included a blurred video of this individual in their ‘2000 Mules’ movie and book productions.
Did he admit the movie was a fraud or this particularly part of the movie was fraudulent?
So maybe change the name to 1999 Mules?
It sounds like he unfairly accused a man, but the media is making it out to be that he is acknowledging the whole movie to be a lie.
The Left would find a way to demonize a saint.
Conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza issued an apology Monday to a man who appeared in his documentary 2000 Mules for inaccurately depicting him as an election fraud mule.
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Oh well. That just proves the entire premise of the movie was wrong.
/sarc
Why even acknowledge this? Why apologize?
Socialist Democrats NEVER do! They want us all dead and America burned to the ground while they dance on our communal graves!
WHEN will ‘Conservatives’ learn? Ever? Ugh!
That is still breaking the election law in PA. You cannot transport another persons mail in ballot to a drop off.
This was in Georgia.
I didn’t put this music video on the stolen election up on YouTube because I thought that might bring down my whole channel, so I stream it off my personal website.
2020 - The Great Experiment - Joseph Blanchard (2 separate pieces)
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/politics/video/2020-The-Grand-Experiment-Joseph-Blanchard-V04.htm
Now, the entire world can find out who he is.
There is NOTHING tort lawyers will not do in their 24-7 search for YOUR money.
He needs to read more, do less, and talk less.
too bad. looks like a costly mistake (for him) by this guy D’Souza. the enemy will smear him and try to smear TTV because of it. he’s probably going to have to pay for it. i guess it was an honest mistake.
the main thing is that it doesn’t invalidate TTV’s main point about ballot fraud by paid mules.
I used to like Dinesh, but I unfollowed him on X because he constantly posts clickbait BS.
Did he admit the movie was a fraud or this particularly part of the movie was fraudulent?
Why would he admit that the movie was a fraud???
He corrected one tiny part of it, that mislabled this guy as a mule/vote dumper.
Plenty more of them were legit.
And, as FReepers .... plenty more to whine about than this.
People who deposit ballots that are not their own should be limited to staffed ballot drop locations, photographed, and required to show a valid state ID.
Oh, right.
Dinesh is only clickbait to troll shat posters.
“Why even acknowledge this? Why apologize?”
Because it is the right thing to do.
Because the dude is suing him.
Typical Dem tactic, find an error and say the entire story is wrong. Everyone knows the mules were real and were stopped this time.
The distributor has disowned the entire movie. That is pretty bad.
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