Ģ000 Mules opens with a misleadingly edited clip from October 2020 of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden responding to a podcaster's question about boosting his election turnout. Several of these groups have threatened legal action in response to the allegations.
Ī book version of the film was set to be released in September 2022, but shortly before the scheduled release, the book's publisher, Regnery Publishing, abruptly recalled the book's physical copies already sent to stores, and delayed the e-book release, citing an unspecified "publishing error." NPR obtained a copy of the book, and reported that it repeated the false claims made in the film, as well as making new false allegations, including naming specific nonprofits that D'Souza claims were involved in the conspiracy. The film characterizes the alleged operation as "ballot trafficking" with "stash houses", but presents no evidence that ballots were illegally collected to be deposited in drop boxes. The film presented a single unverified anonymous witness who said she saw people picking up what she "assumed" were payments for ballot collection in Arizona no evidence of such payments was presented in any of the other four states. AP reported that the film's assertion that True the Vote identified 1,155 paid mules in Philadelphia alone was false. found the film's "supposed evidence is speculative." National Public Radio (NPR) reported True the Vote "made multiple misleading or false claims about its work". The Associated Press (AP) reported that the film relies on "faulty assumptions, anonymous accounts and improper analysis of cellphone location data" provided by conservative non-profit True the Vote. D'Souza has a history of creating and spreading false conspiracy theories. 2000 Mules is a 2022 American debunked conspiracy theory political film from right-wing political commentator Dinesh D'Souza that falsely claims unnamed nonprofit organizations paid " mules" associated with the Democratic Party to illegally collect and deposit ballots into drop boxes in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election.
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