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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProducer of 2000 Mules said in court that every single accusation made in the movie was totally invented
out of thin air by Dinesh and True the Vote.
https://salemnewschannel.com/
Salem Media Group, Inc. and its former publishing division, Regnery Publishing (together, "Salem" , published a film and book entitled 2000 Mules that examines allegations of voter fraud related to the 2020 presidential election. In publishing the film and the book, we relied on representations made to us by Dinesh D'Souza and True the Vote, Inc. ("TTV" that the individuals depicted in the videos provided to us by TTV, including Mr. Andrews, illegally deposited ballots. We have learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has cleared Mr. Andrews of illegal voting activity in connection with the event depicted in 2000 Mules.
It was never our intent that the publication of the 2000 Mules film and book would harm Mr. Andrews. We apologize for the hurt the inclusion of Mr. Andrews' image in the movie, book, and promotional materials have caused Mr. Andrews and his family. We have removed the film from Salem's platforms, and there will be no future distribution of the film or the book by Salem.
Think. Again.
(17,115 posts)NewHendoLib
(60,433 posts)Ms. Toad
(35,337 posts)It said I've person named in those allegations had been cleared by Georgia, and apologized to him.
Sneederbunk
(14,990 posts)D'Souza is a felon in his own right.
lame54
(36,631 posts)And will resonate in this election
Maraya1969
(22,958 posts)about the J/6 trials PBS has some great videos about it and they use testimony from the trials.
You help no one by being defeatist. No election was ever won by people being defeatist. Get over it and fight!
(I just sent this and another video to my cousin, her husband whatever other idiots are on vacation together. I know she will read/watch them because she would be too embarrassed to not. I really think it will have an effect on at least her now - I had never known how much of a GOP nitwit she was because she refused to talk about it. But recently I found out and that is why I am sending her things)
lame54
(36,631 posts)Every time the blurt out some blatant bullshit
Doesn't matter how much fact checking is done
The message is out there and we're always on the defensive
getagrip_already
(17,077 posts)Just because the producers aren't distributing it, doesn't mean it isn't alive and well in the soft underbelly of the maganet.
Blue Owl
(54,423 posts)charliea
(277 posts)Be sued by Mr. Andrews for slanderous defamation, just like the guy who pardoned him?
erronis
(16,727 posts)Grins
(7,844 posts)And the two weasels who are True the Vote for their more active role in lies and slander?
groundloop
(12,134 posts)petronius
(26,654 posts)And perhaps the apology and withdrawal of the book/film was part of that...
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/g-s1-2298/publisher-of-2000-mules-election-conspiracy-theory-film-issues-apology
Grins
(7,844 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(153,746 posts)The lady who formed this entity is a tea party idiot who found a way to scam her fellow conservatives
Link to tweet
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/14/true-the-vote-big-lie-election-fraud/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1655241639&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
And while the claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election have been dismissed out of hand by courts and debunked by audits, even those led by Republicans, the story of True the Vote highlights how exploiting the Big Lie has become a lucrative enterprise, growing from a cottage industry to a thriving economy.
The records show:
True the Vote regularly reported loans to Engelbrecht, including more than $113,000 in 2019, according to a tax filing. Texas law bans nonprofits from loaning money to directors; Engelbrecht is both a director and an employee.
Companies connected to Engelbrecht and Phillips collected nearly $890,000 from True the Vote from 2014 to 2020. The largest payment at least $750,000 went to a new company created by Phillips, OPSEC Group LLC, to do voter analysis in 2020. Its unclear whether OPSEC has any other clients; it has no website and no digital footprint that Reveal could trace beyond its incorporation records. The contract, which one expert called eye-popping for its largess, did not appear to be disclosed in the 2020 tax return the organization provided to Reveal.
True the Vote provided Bopps law firm a retainer of at least $500,000 to lead a legal charge against the results of the 2020 election, but he filed only four of the seven lawsuits promised to a $2.5 million donor, all of which were voluntarily dismissed less than a week after being filed. The donor later called the amount billed by Bopps firm unconscionable and impossible.
The organizations tax returns are riddled with inconsistencies and have regularly been amended. Experts who reviewed the filings said it makes it difficult to understand how True the Vote is truly spending its donations.
In one instance, True the Vote produced two different versions of the same document. A copy of the 2019 tax return Engelbrecht provided to Reveal does not match the version on the IRS website.
Juanita Jean has had to deal with the tea party idiot who founded this group https://juanitajean.com/true-the-vote/
She had difficulty giving me any examples of the horror of illegal voting that she claimed was killing America. I could give her a couple of examples that happened right in her neighborhood, but they were both Republicans. She quickly informed me that she wasnt talking about just two people, she was talking about hundreds, thousands. She just didnt know any of them.
And then the third example hit. The Republican man she was personally supporting for county commissioner voted in two states for three elections and I had his signature to prove it. I wrote about it in the newspaper and he was defeated soundly.
I once described her as an attractive woman with a dollar sign on her forehead. She always had her hand out. She was far more concerned with raising money than illegal voting.
And now the Washington Post says shes being sued for taking $2 million from a donor and producing the same thing I saw her produce diddle squat.