Dinesh D’Souza Admits That 2020 Election Conspiracy Movie ‘2000 Mules’ Relied On “Inaccurate Information”

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Dinesh D’Souza issued an apology to man he claimed to be a ballot harvester in his election conspiracy film 2000 Mules. The 2022 documentary claimed to show widespread voter fraud that cost Donald Trump key swing states in the 2020 election.

Even though a number of its claims were debunked by Factcheck.org, it grossed almost $1.5 million at the box office. In a statement posted on his website, D’Souza also acknowledged that the movie falsely linked geolocation data to drop box surveillance footage, something that was the “premise of the film.” D’Souza wrote, “During the production of this film, as a supplement to the geolocation data, True the Vote provided my team with ballot drop box surveillance footage that had been obtained through open records requests.

We were assured that the surveillance videos had been linked to geolocation cell phone data, such that each video depicted an individual who had made at least 10 visits to drop boxes.

Indeed, it is clear from the interviews within the film itself that True the Vote was correlating the videos to geolocation data.  “We recently learned that surveillance videos used in the film may not have actually been correlated with the geolocation data.” His statement included an apology to Mark Andrews, who sued D’Souza over the use of his blurred image in the film and a book as a suspected “ballot harvester.” “I know that the film and my book create the impression that these individuals were mules that had been identified as suspected ballot harvesters based on their geotracked cell phone data,” D’Souza wrote.