D’Souza Deletes Libelous Claims From Reissued Book

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 rewritten, softening certain claims and outright removing the names of the groups.

Separately, sections of the book that purported to link election fraud to antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement have also been deleted.

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The film version of “2,000 Mules” alleged that left-wing nonprofits acted as “stash houses” for a “ballot trafficking” operation by the so-called ballot “mules.”

D’Souza said the film did not name them for legal reasons, but promised the book would name names. pic.twitter.com/30gkpuHY8y

— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) October 25, 2022

Instead of naming names, D’Souza now writes:

“True the Vote shared their names with me and has offered to make them available as needed to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.”

— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) October 25, 2022

The New Georgia Project (NGP) was one of the groups named in the recalled book. They called the claims “lies,” and raised the possibility of legal action.

Today an NGP spox writes:
“We’re always happy when someone who has been discredited takes our name out of their mouths,”

— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) October 25, 2022

Separately, in response to a correction request, the book removed all references to @ACLEDINFO.

D’Souza had claimed in the film and the recalled book that ACLED’s data showed connections between the “mules,” antifa, and BLM.

ACLED said that was false. Those claims are now gone.

— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) October 25, 2022

More potential problems.

I just discovered that the audiobook version of @DineshDSouza‘s “2,000 Mules” still contains references to ACLED, even though they’ve been removed from the print copy. @Regnery CEO Thomas Spence just told me by email “we are working on that.”

— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) October 25, 2022