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 fraud in the 2020 election in the form of digital device location tracking data.
Trump’s official spokesperson, Liz Harrington, said True The Vote “solved a murder of a young little girl in Atlanta. I mean, they are heroes.” Authorities in Georgia arrested and secured indictments against two suspects in the murder of Secoriea Turner in August 2021. In response to NPR’s inquiries, True The Vote acknowledged it had contacted law enforcement more than two months later, meaning it played no role in those arrests or indictments.
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The film features a scene about the 2020 killing of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner in Atlanta.
Gregg Phillips of True The Vote says they turned over an analysis of device location data to the FBI.
D’Souza: “Now, I read, they’ve arrested two suspects.”
Phillips: “They have”
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) May 17, 2022
On his podcast, D’Souza claimed the data was actually turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
So I contacted the GBI.
“The GBI did not receive information from True the Vote that connected to the Secoriea Turner investigation,” said a GBI spokesperson.
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) May 17, 2022
D’Souza has claimed the group @ACLEDINFO “monitors the cell phones of all violent rioters around the world,” and True The Vote found alleged ballot traffickers (or “mules”) among those rioters.
The problem? ACLED does not track device IDs or monitor anyone’s cell phones.
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) May 17, 2022
In an interview with right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk, Gregg Phillips of True The Vote also said that they did some of their complicated data work, “in the High Performance Computing Center on the campus of Starkville, Miss.”
Mississippi State University said that’s false.
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) May 17, 2022
Dinesh D’Souza appears to have acknowledged our reporting.
He still has not addressed the false and misleading claims we identified.https://t.co/aBAWI82vB8
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) May 18, 2022
Group Behind Dinesh D’Souza’s Big Lie Doc ‘2000 Mules’ Admits It Didn’t Help Lead to Arrest of Murder Suspects https://t.co/murE4hlpvM
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 18, 2022