Tag Archives: Dinesh D’Souza

The Texas Tribune reports: Conservative activists Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips used the nonprofit True the Vote to enrich themselves, according to a complaint filed to the IRS. On Monday, the nonprofit watchdog group Campaign for Accountability called for an investigation into True the Vote, which has made repeated false claims about voter fraud in elections. The complaint said True …

“Our friend Harmeet Dhillon is in Arizona with an army of lawyers. Republicans have this time much more than 2020 are kind of on it. “I expect there’s a lot of litigation that’s going to come out of this. I hope it’s not simply one of those, ‘let’s fix things the next time.’ “Go to a judge and basically say, …

The Daily Beast reports: Many, including right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, used a recording of a dispatcher saying that Paul Pelosi referred to DePape as “a friend” to back allegations that the pair were in fact gay lovers — a claim that was also debunked by authorities and officials. However, in the latest batch of court documents, the Justice Department wrote: …

The Texas Tribune reports: After spending nearly a week in jail, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips — leaders of Texas-based right-wing voting activist group True the Vote — have been released. They’d been held for contempt of court since Halloween, having repeatedly refused to release the name of a man they called a “confidential FBI informant” who is a person …

“If you see anything that seems inappropriate, untoward, shenanigans, mules, you know what, turn on your trusty iPhone, send in the information to the election authorities and you know what? “Post it on social media because again, these are public acts that are occurring in public space so there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy. “By the way, look, we live …

The Texas Tribune reports: On Monday, US Marshals took into custody Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of True the Vote, for refusing to identify a confidential informant. Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt delivered the order, holding the two in contempt of court for refusing to identify the informant. In filings and testimony, the basic facts and plot lines have shifted from …

Vote Beat Texas reports: After a chaotic day of testimony on Thursday, a federal judge in Texas found Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips — known as leaders of the group True the Vote — in contempt of court. They are facing accusations of defamation and computer crimes from a company at the center of a viral right-wing social media campaign …

The Daily Beast reports: Shortly after news broke that Elon Musk had taken over Twitter and purged executives from the company, a bogus Donald Trump press release began circulating on the platform. Truth Social CEO and former Rep. Devin Nunes responded to the fake graphic, which hailed the deal and promised a Trump return to Twitter, by writing on Truth …

The Daily Beast reports: Mark Andrews filed suit against D’Souza on Wednesday, insisting D’Souza and his collaborators falsely accused him of ballot fraud by “combining junk pseudoscience and excerpted surveillance video of innocent voters” in the May 2022 documentary. “In fact, the video of Mr. Andrews shows him legally dropping off ballots for himself and his family, a voting method …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump claimed to Dinesh D’Souza that some people voted up to 28 times on election day in 2020 to deny him reelection. The former president, who did not say where he came up with the number, made the claim during a Monday interview on D’Souza’s podcast on Rumble. Trump said “cheating” occurred across the country. …

NPR reports: After an abrupt recall and a two-month delay – along with the threat of possible legal action – the election denial book 2,000 Mules has reached bookstores, though with a few significant changes. Most notably, a passage in the recalled version of the book that accused specific, named nonprofit organizations of involvement in illegal “ballot trafficking” has been …

Politico reports: The sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix said Monday he’s stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking video of voters after they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election. On Friday, deputies responded when two masked people carrying guns and wearing bulletproof vests showed …

Fox News reports: Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has asked the IRS and FBI to review the financials of the conservative nonprofit group True The Vote for allegedly raising money on false statements about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Chief Special Agent Reggie Grigsby of the Special Investigations Section for Brnovich’s office accused True The Vote of …

Mediaite reports: Pro-Trump author and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza’s book version of his film 2000 Mules was recalled Tuesday due to a “significant error,” announced the author on the day it was set to be released. Regnery Publishing, confirmed the recall and the book’s postponement on Twitter, but did not offer any further details on the error behind the move. …

The Arizona Mirror reports: Conservative activist and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza told a conservative podcast that “2000 Mules,” his film making flawed and faulty claims about election fraud in 2020, directly led the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office to open up an investigation — but the sheriff says that’s simply not true. “The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office has been working jointly with …

NPR reports: A conservative “election integrity” group called True The Vote has made multiple misleading or false claims about its work, NPR has found, including the suggestion that they helped solve the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Atlanta. The claims appear in a new pro-Trump film called “2000 Mules,” which purports to have “smoking gun” evidence of massive voter …

Maybe they don’t want another billion dollar lawsuit: Right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza accused Tucker Carlson and Newsmax on Monday of suppressing any mention of his new conspiracy theory film 2,000 Mules. The Associated Press fact-checked the film, which former President Donald Trump screened at Mar-a-Lago and has hailed as revealing the “great election fraud,” and concluded it is “based on …

Mediaite reports: Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has a new movie out called 2000 Mules, which claims to document the vast election fraud conspiracy that former President Donald Trump has obsessed over since he lost the 2020 election. D’Souza is one of the principle proponents of the fantastical theory that the election was stolen from Trump, a theory that has been …

Vice News reports: When Politico published the draft opinion on Monday night, QAnon conspiracy boards lit up with claims that the timing of the leak was designed to distract people from the launch of a new film called “2000 Mules,” which is the latest conspiracy-laden “documentary” to allege massive voter fraud took place during the 2020 election, rigging the result …

Mediaite reports: Every time right-wing pundit Dinesh D’Souza says something dumb or horrific, people ask why he is still listed as a contributor on the National Review masthead. Well ask no more, because Dinesh D’Souza has been officially scrubbed from the conservative mag’s website. Thanks to the Wayback Machine’s archive, we can get some sense of when D’Souza was removed: …