2000 Mules

So what are they telling us? The Arizona woman doesn't actually say that anything criminal happened. Ballot transport there was legal until recently and no dates are mentioned, go figure. The camera videos are nothing even though the speaker says it's all suspicious. He says the geo tracking is suspicious too but they never follow up with anybody real. Just suspicion, suspicion, suspicion without proof. And lots of drama acting. What they said about them solving murders turns out to be a lie. I think it's all a lie.

By KATE BRUMBACK Updated 7:55 PM CDT, May 31, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) - The publisher of "2000 Mules" issued a statement Friday apologizing to a Georgia man who was shown in the film and falsely accused of ballot fraud during the 2020 election.

The widely debunked film includes surveillance video showing Mark Andrews, his face blurred, putting five ballots in a drop box in Lawrenceville, an Atlanta suburb, as a voiceover by conservative pundit and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza says: "What you are seeing is a crime. These are fraudulent votes."

Salem Media Group said in the statement that it has "removed the film from Salem's platforms, and there will be no future distribution of the film or the book by Salem."

"It was never our intent that the publication of the 2000 Mules film and book would harm Mr. Andrews. We apologize for the hurt the inclusion of Mr. Andrews' image in the movie, book, and promotional materials have caused Mr. Andrews and his family," the statement said.

A state investigation found that Andrews was dropping off ballots for himself, his wife and their three adult children, who all lived at the same address. That is legal in Georgia, and an investigator said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Andrews.

The film uses research from True the Vote, a Texas-based nonprofit, and suggests that ballot "mules" aligned with Democrats were paid to illegally collect and deliver ballots in Georgia and four other closely watched states. An Associated Press analysis found that it is based on faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data.

Salem said it "relied on representations 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."

Lawyers for D'Souza and True the Vote did not immediately respond to emails Friday afternoon seeking comment on Salem's statement.

Andrews filed a federal lawsuit in October 2022 against D'Souza, True the Vote and Salem. The case is ongoing, and representatives for Salem and for Andrews' legal team did not immediately respond to emails asking whether the statement came as a result of the lawsuit.

This entire wad is a chimera - a fantasy built to confirm your belief that Trump was cheated. At last you know how "they" did it! The fact that every single thing here is a lie or a deception won't matter.

For instance, all the video of "mules" at drop-boxes. D'Souza claims he has 1000 HOURS of this, but all we see are three or four clips of people dropping off a ballot. These are run repeatedly from different angles so the narrators can fantasize about what the "mules" must have been thinking. One person takes a selfie; from that comes the theory that pictures were demanded by mules paymasters. Another wears gloves; which is obviously to avoid fingerprints. She tosses those in the trash; clearly as instructed to do. Onlookers do nothing; certainly because they are too shocked to react. Etc.

In all those 1000 hours D'Souza has NONE that shows a person going to more than one box. Which is THE HEART of his mules theory, of course. So he FAKED those scenes with the actor Jacob Hyman, not listed in the film's main credits. And in all that video he has only one person dropping off several ballots. He calls this poor man a "criminal"; but it turns out that the ballots were his family's so perfectly legal. No apology from D'Souza - but he is being sued.

Then there's the cellphone data, which according to Gregg Phillips exactly confirm the theory of mules gathering ballots at non-profit organizations and distributing them around the city. The fact that locating someone AT a dropbox is impossible means nothing. And of course that data won't be released and the analyses can't be verified. And Gregg is responsible for the enormous lie that millions of illegals voted in 2016. His word here is equally worthless. And btw CRUCIAL to the film's claims.

Then there's the "non-profits" such as nursing homes, shelters, community centers, 4H homes etc. Thousands of staff there apparently coerced or tricked hundreds of thousands of residents to vote for Biden, then fed these ballots into the mules system. Strangely, none of these people or their victims or the mules have come forward or been found in all this time.

D'Souza doesn't leave it at tha. Every line of the script and every reaction is crafted to further the deception. And being professional work is very persuasive... especially to those who want desperately to believe. So we see people claiming that it's "irrefutable evidence of massive fraud".

A chimera - created from nothing but tearing our nation apart. That's the real crime here.

(🔹) His cellphone data source "True The Vote" only claims 100 ft accuracy. (🔹) It can't be better than 16' best case. (🔹) He won't let anyone review that work. (🔹) It didn't "solve a murder". (🔹) Any fake ballots "stuffed" in boxes won't be counted anyway. (🔹) Valid ballots can be dropped in a mailbox.(🔹) He has no real videos of putting multiple ballots in a box. (🔹) So he staged the scenes of a "mule" with piles of ballots. (🔹) And the scenes of them going to more than one box. (🔹) Mocked up with an extra-wide mouth for effect. (🔹) Ballot transport aka "harvesting" for family is legal except in AL. (🔹) Which is why you see folks with more than one. (🔹) Which he just repeats. (🔹) And until recently was unrestricted in Az. (🔹) So the undated report of it in Yuma means nothing. (🔹) Nobody has found fake ballots anywhere. (🔹) Not one of thousands of "mules" and "healthcare workers" has been found and (🔹) Obviously couldn't be paid off forever. (🔹) The Az Audit hand-counted 2 million ballots and matched them to the databases and found nothing.

(🔹) D'Souza omits that he is a convicted campaign law felon (!) pardoned by Trump... (🔹) and that the Russians helped make this film, leaving in a map of Moscow.

(🔹) BUT HE DOES TRUTHFULLY SAY in his Washington Post interview that his "evidence" wouldn't begin to stand up in court. Meaning... it's WORTHLESS. And points that this is just "a movie" after all. So there's that.

This film essentially concocts a spy-movie plot, finds video clips that seem to support bits and pieces of that, and whips it into a gigantic conspiracy theory. And presents that to the viewer as "proven".

Look at the faked multi-dropbox scenes. Look at the faked dropbox screens (one in Moscow). Look at the unverified cellphone pattern charts. Look at the undated and therefore worthless whistleblower scene. Look at the innocent voters simply being called "criminals" by the panel! Listen to the unsupported fantasizing about "non-profits" victimizing hundreds of thousands of people.

Why do we have films like this? Late last year, when asked by an associate why he keeps pushing the Steal, Trump said: "It keeps my base motivated, and will help Republicans win".

So people like D'Souza and Phillips here are in demand. They can knock out conspiracy theory films like this on command, convincing countless people that their national election was stolen.