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      2000 Mules

      2022, Documentary, 1h 29m

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      "2000 Mules," a documentary film created by Dinesh D'Souza, exposes widespread, coordinated voter fraud in the 2020 election, sufficient to change the overall outcome. Drawing on research provided by the election integrity group True the Vote, "2000 Mules" offers two types of evidence: geotracking and video.

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      • May 22, 2022

        I swore I would be done with conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza after 2020's pseudo-documentary Trump Card, just as I also wrote that I was ready to be done with Donald Trump as president, and yet both have persisted and still pose a danger to the general public. Trump had been priming his voters to not trust any election outcome where he lost and now the Big Lie has become fundamental dogma for millions. 2000 Mules is intended to be D'Souza's smoking gun, his proof that the election was stolen by nefarious Democrats and their cronies taking advantage of making absentee ballots easiest to access during a world-altering pandemic. D'Souza says he has amassed cellular data proving that ballots were stuffed into voting drop boxes, and these "mules" have been "trafficking" votes, and posits that 400,000 votes were invalid and tilted the presidency. The entire rhetorical argument D'Souza and his co-conspirators have gathered amounts to a lot of, "Yeah, buddy, trust us on this," when they've earned no such faith except for those who are already desperate for confirmation bias. D'Souza has built a lifetime of bad faith arguments, and anyone he brings on board to further his thesis statements is likewise to be dubiously trusted. True The Vote is listed as a "non-profit organization" about "voter integrity" when it's really looking to restrict access to voting. They made the same baseless accusations after 2016's election. The movie says we should trust this organization because they even helped solve a cold case murder by tracking cell phone data and contacting the Atlanta bureau of investigations. The problem with this noble claim is that True The Vote contacted Georgia officials two months AFTER they had already indicted two suspects for the 2021 murder of Secoriea Turner. You don't get credit for solving a cold case that 1) wasn't cold, and 2) where the police had already solved it. Should I get credit for reporting to the FBI that I know who's responsible for Ted Bundy's murders with my own evidence? True The Vote's executive director, Catherine Engelbrecht, and board member, Gregg Phillips, are listed as executive producers, so I find it especially odd when, confronted by this discrepancy by NPR, Englerecht responded via email that her movie "did not have the benefit of full context." Well, as an executive producer, and someone featured prominently on camera, would you not have the ability and say to provide that important context and clarity? D'Souza states, "Bold accusations require bold evidence," although this has never stopped the man from making documentaries that make the most baseless of accusations and disingenuous conclusions, but 2000 Mules lacks the potency to support its claims. It doesn't have security footage of people dumping tons of ballots, although D'Souza somehow says the data they do have is even better than video footage ("No no, this Tiger handheld game is way better than any Game Boy, grandson"). It doesn't have any important testimony from people involved outside of True The Vote with the exception of one "whistleblower" who cannot go into accompanying details and speaks in racist generalities about Mexicans. Just because D'Souza and a few of his friends got together (Sebastian Gorka didn't bring his Nazi medal) and talk about 400,000 false votes doesn't make them magically appear from nothing. It's always worth remembering that D'Souza was a convicted felon for campaign finance fraud before being pardoned by Trump after a movie courting his incalculable ego. The only thing that D'Souza presents is assorted cellular data points that he wants to infer only nefarious conclusions. The technology for data pings is not that exact, according to several Associated Press reports, which means True The Vote cannot even be certain that these points of data are people dropping off ballots rather than simply standing ten to twenty feet away from the drop boxes. Nor can they tell if these data points aren't cab drivers, election workers, or people that would frequent the area for work. Nor can they tell if these multiple data points aren't merely people wearing multiple pieces of technology (phones, watch, tablet, laptops, etc.). The fact that the movie is purporting that it was busy around a space adjacent to a drop box is not exactly bold or revelatory when they were always intended to be placed in busy metro areas for better civic engagement. Never mind that ballot drop boxes have been utilized in Democrat and Republican-run states for decades and are tamper-proof. It's the flimsiest of evidence blown to massive proportions that breaks down upon the most minimal dollop of intellectual scrutiny, but this is true of every dysfunctional D'Souza political polemic. However, even if I was the most generous person in the world and took D'Souza's assertions at face value, and again no human being should ever do this for their own mental and ethical well being, 2000 Mules falls apart because it's not ever asserting that these ballots are phony. Even if someone was stuffing ballots, each one of these would be verified through a rigorous system of checks. Absentee ballots are tracked via signature and anyone can track their ballot online, which is what I did for my own 2020 absentee ballot. Casting extra ballots is really difficult when everything is finely tracked. One of the references True The Vote made to Georgia officials was investigated and found to be a man dropping off ballots for the rest of his family, completely legal under Georgia law. It is legal in 31 states for someone else to drop off your ballot for you even if they aren't your family. All of this also assumes that anyone voting absentee would be voting for Biden over Trump, and while more Democratic voters did make use of the absentee process during a pandemic, to just assume absentee equals Democrat and thus equals untrustworthy is an escalating blend of bad faith. The votes have been counted, recounted, and in some states and counties recounted again and again, and yet Joe Biden still tops Donald Trump by seven million votes and still serves as president. Even if D'Souza's incredulous account is true, and these people "trafficked ballots," they would have been easily discovered and larger discrepancies would have been uncovered especially with so many partisans scouring for even the faintest hint of fraud. And yet, the scant cases of 2020 election fraud have been Republican voters trying to vote twice or vote for their relatives, living and dead (the call is coming from inside the house, True The Vote). According to the Associated Press, in the 2020 election there were fewer than 475 potential voter fraud cases in the six battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Michigan (out of a combined 25.5 million votes cast, being approximately .00002%). No matter how many times fraud is claimed, no matter how loud its champions get, it's never verified in a statistically meaningful way. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported only finding four cases of dead people voting in Georgia, not the "thousands" that Donald Trump swore up and down had wrongly cost him the state. Trump's own legal team had sixty chances in court to substantiate his claims of widespread voter fraud. It didn't happen. True The Vote even told the Wisconsin legislature that they aren't arguing the ballots were illegal, only that the process was somehow abused. So if the votes are legal then should not every legal vote be counted in free and fair elections? Where exactly is the controversy there? The controversy occurs when politicians, and bad actors, try to forge dubious claims about "protecting voting" by providing more obstacles between a voter and a ballot, less so protections after voting. So in the end, what does D'Souza's reportedly "explosive" "game-changing" "documentary" actually legitimately prove? It proves how easy misinformed organizations can buy consumer metadata. It proves that there were people around ballot drop boxes in cities. Or it proves that people exist in cities. It proves that D'Souza and his fellow bottom-scraping partisans will keep looking for any fig leaf, no matter how insignificant or made up, to still hold onto their quixotic claim that the 2020 election was stolen. It doesn't matter that recounts have occurred and confirmed the totals, it doesn't matter that these recount totals have been confirmed by Republican-led legislatures and committees, it's become a defacto belief for over half of registered Republicans that the only way Donald Trump, an immensely unpopular president with a lifetime of self-serving bluster, could have lost the 2020 presidential election was because it must have been rigged. Somehow. This new Lost Cause is corrosive and becoming the purity test for Republicans seeking office. That's why it's important to rebut obvious falsehoods that undermine the integrity of our elections. 2000 Mules has no real experts, no real smoking guns, no real legitimate evidence beyond purchased cell data it has extrapolated into grossly malicious conclusions. Even by D'Souza's ridiculously low standards, there just isn't any merit to his phony points. That's because this man isn't formulating a real-world argument. This is an alternate world argument for people living in bubbles of confirmation bias delusion. But that's always been this man's audience and he knows it. There's no persuasive points here to convince anyone outside the circle of election deniers. D'Souza's round table of pals, including Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager, has Kirk saying, "Millions of Americans know something went wrong, and they have little pieces, and no one's really put it together." By the end of the movie, all of D'Souza's friends have been amazingly convinced from his amazingly unconvincing evidence. Even Gorka says the 2020 election was the "perfect crime" because it "cannot be curated after it's been committed." So there you have it, folks. They don't ever have to prove the fraud because it cannot be proven because it was so perfect, therefore there had to have been fraud all along. 2000 Mules is a deeply un-serious documentary about a serious subject for people willfully ignorant. Nate's Grade: F

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