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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: …

Media Matters has the transcript: They had this whole big narrative going right after January 6, and that narrative has completely collapsed. There was no insurrection, there was no coup. As you mention, the only shot fired in the Capitol on January 6 was the shot fired by a policeman into Ashli Babbitt’s neck. They tried very hard the New …

“African-American in the American context generally means having a direct relationship to the experiences of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow so on. Very interestingly, Kamala Harris’ father, Donald, a Stanford professor, wrote an article in a Jamaican magazine several years ago, claiming, in fact sort of boasting, that he was descended from the largest slave owner, slave owner in …

Surely you little people should know by know that Glorious Leader never makes mistakes. Off with your heads! Mediaite reports: Conservative author and pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza mounted a lengthy defense of President Donald Trump’s “Thighland” moment in a lengthy series of tweets that suggested Trump’s pronunciation of Thailand was correct. Trump set the internet ablaze when he referenced “Thighland” …

Media Matters reports: Right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza appeared Monday night on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle — on the same day that he had tweeted a conspiracy theory claiming that coronavirus-related death totals were being inflated by medical practitioners, to deceive the public. During the April 20 show, D’Souza contrasted the approach of economic lockdowns with the program adopted in …

“Remember that a few weeks ago, Jennifer Rubin, the Never Trumper, and others were all putting out the idea that there was so much misinformation being put out by the president, and by Fox News, that we would see spreads of the coronavirus in the red states — Republicans would die. “But in fact, interestingly, these spreads are mainly in …

Mediaite reports: A corollary to Godwin’s Law states that “as an Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler increases, and whoever makes that comparison has automatically ‘lost’ whatever debate was in progress.” Extending this axiom to the current public discourse of the climate crisis begs the question: should a critic of Swedish teenaged activist …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump Jr. promoted a tweet from conservative polemicist Dinesh D’Souza calling Robert Mueller “mentally retarded” during a spate of attacks on the special counsel Wednesday. During his testimony, Mueller said he was “not familiar” with Fusion GPS, a research firm that hired Christopher Steele to look into President Donald Trump’s connections with Russia. The president’s son retweeted …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump has bagged two nominations at the 2019 Razzie Awards—one for worst actor and another joint nomination for worst screen combo alongside “his self perpetuating pettiness.” His nominations come from his roles as himself in Dinesh D’Souza’s Death of a Nation and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, while Melania Trump won a nomination for “worst actress” …

“I’ve been hearing the left talking about these things — fascism, Nazism on the right — and when you look at the actual history and how these things evolved, and you actually look at that platform versus the platform of the modern left, you say ‘Wait a minute, those two are very heavily aligned.’ You see the Nazi platform from …

According to Politico Playbook, last night Jerry Falwell Jr. was spotted “huddling” with Donald Trump Jr. in the lobby of the Trump DC hotel after attending the “red carpet” premiere of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest deranged propaganda film, Death Of A Nation. Then, purely by coincidence and at 2AM, Falwell posted the below tweet denouncing Jeff Sessions as a “phony.” Not …

From the Hollywood Reporter: In a move that could raise the suspicions of his detractors, recently pardoned Dinesh D’Souza tells The Hollywood Reporter that his next movie will liken Donald Trump to Abraham Lincoln, including a poster that morphs an image of the two U.S. presidents. The poster, unveiled here for the first time, features a U.S. flag, images of …

Mediaite reports: Pointing out that D’Souza said that Trump pardoned him so he could be a voice for his principles, Camerota brought up his old tweets with “racist overtones,” including one in which he called Obama’s father “a philandering, inebriated African socialist.” “I’m confused, what are the principles that you are hoping to be able to talk about now and …

The Texas Tribune reports: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday detailed his role in urging President Donald Trump to pardon conservative writer and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, saying he raised the issue with Trump while they traveled together last month in Texas. Trump announced Thursday that he was pardoning D’Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to campaign finance fraud, tweeting …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump granted a full pardon Thursday to conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza and said he was strongly considering clemency for other celebrity felons, signaling his willingness to exercise his unilateral power to reward friends and allies while undercutting the work of his nemeses in law enforcement. With Thursday’s announcements, Trump also delivered an indirect but unmistakable …

Axios reports: In a Thursday afternoon tweet, conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza mocked former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, whose office prosecuted D’Souza’s case and was fired by President Trump last year. D’Souza was pardoned by President Trump earlier this morning. What Preet said: Reacting earlier this morning, he tweeted, “The President has the right to pardon but the facts are these: …

Minutes ago Glorious Leader declared that he will grant a “full pardon” to right wing crackpot Dinesh D’Souza, who in 2014 pleaded guilty to a felony after using a straw donor to make a illegal donation to the campaign of Wendy Long, a New York Republican who lost her challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. D’Souza was sentenced to eight months …