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The creator of a widely debunked movie that became a central pillar in the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen has admitted that some of the film’s claims are flawed.
The movie, “2,000 Mules” by far-right activist Dinesh D’Souza, promoted a false conspiracy theory that vote drop boxes were the scene of mass widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election – alleging that so-called “mules” were stuffing voter drop boxes with ballots.
The movie premiered at Mar-a-Lago in 2022 and was widely embraced across the MAGA universe as a way to demonize the use of ballot drop boxes, and perpetuate the false claim of voter fraud. Later in 2022 armed men stalked voters at drop boxes in Arizona.
In 2022, a Georgia man featured in the film depositing his ballot filed a lawsuit alleging that bogus claims in the movie had severely damaged his reputation and led to threats of violence against him and his family.
In a statement D’Souza posted on X last week, he apologized to the man, Mark Andrews.
In the film, Andrews was featured on video with his face blurred while depositing his ballot, along with those belonging to his family, into a drop box in what the film purported was a “mule” operation.
“What you are seeing is a crime,” a voiceover from D’Souza declared. “These are fraudulent votes.”
“I know that the film and my book create the impression that these individuals were mules that had been identified as suspected ballot harvesters,” D’Souza...
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