We travel now to the alternate reality inhabited by state Sen. Wendy Rogers, who apparently never lets inconvenient facts get in the way of a good grift.
Rogers on Thursday sent out yet another plea for campaign donations, this time falsely claiming that the Yuma County sheriff has opened an investigation into election fraud as a result of the (supposedly) stunning conspiracy uncovered by the film, “2000 Mules”.
Never mind that he hasn’t and it didn’t.
“The film ‘2000 Mules’ showed how a conspiracy to throw the election was executed,” Rogers reports to her supporters. “Now, the mules in Arizona have been outed- and arrests are finally happening!”
Rogers’ plea for funds comes after filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza announced a few weeks ago that Yuma County has opened an investigation as a result of his “2000 Mules” documentary – the one in which he claims to have evidence that people repeatedly walked or drove by drop boxes and thus they must have been “ballot mules” hired to stuff those boxes with phony votes.
Fact checkers, far and wide, have found D’Souza’s analysis to be flawed. But, of course, that just means they’re all part of the “deep state,” right?
“The Sheriff of Yuma saw our movie, went berserk and has opened up an investigation,” D’Souza said on a recent podcast.
Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot didn’t appear berserk or even mildly exercised by D’Souza’s claim to have “evidence” of nefarious goings-on in his...
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