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Maraya1969

(22,958 posts)
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 03:44 PM Jun 2024

Producer 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&quot , 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&quot 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.

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Producer of 2000 Mules said in court that every single accusation made in the movie was totally invented (Original Post) Maraya1969 Jun 2024 OP
Um, yeah. That was obvious. Think. Again. Jun 2024 #1
Of course. NewHendoLib Jun 2024 #2
Not exactly what the article says. Ms. Toad Jun 2024 #3
What did you expect? Sneederbunk Jun 2024 #4
The damage was done... lame54 Jun 2024 #5
Not if we fight against it. Not if we spread this information around and the information Maraya1969 Jun 2024 #6
I didn't say the election was done... lame54 Jun 2024 #13
Im sure it is still availble for downlosd in both video and doc form getagrip_already Jun 2024 #7
D'Sleaza's big book of stools Blue Owl Jun 2024 #8
Query: Can the pardoned felon... charliea Jun 2024 #9
Regnery - that sure rings a bell or two. Has been part of the ultra RW media for decades erronis Jun 2024 #10
Next question: Will Andrews now sue D'Souza? Grins Jun 2024 #11
I sure hope so. groundloop Jun 2024 #12
He did - it's still ongoing. Salem settled the suit against them for an undisclosed sum petronius Jun 2024 #14
Made my day!!! Grins Jun 2024 #15
The founder of True the Vote is a scam artist LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2024 #16

Ms. Toad

(35,337 posts)
3. Not exactly what the article says.
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 03:55 PM
Jun 2024

It said I've person named in those allegations had been cleared by Georgia, and apologized to him.

Maraya1969

(22,958 posts)
6. Not if we fight against it. Not if we spread this information around and the information
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 04:27 PM
Jun 2024

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)
13. I didn't say the election was done...
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 06:49 PM
Jun 2024

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)
7. Im sure it is still availble for downlosd in both video and doc form
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 04:41 PM
Jun 2024

Just because the producers aren't distributing it, doesn't mean it isn't alive and well in the soft underbelly of the maganet.

charliea

(277 posts)
9. Query: Can the pardoned felon...
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 06:32 PM
Jun 2024

Be sued by Mr. Andrews for slanderous defamation, just like the guy who pardoned him?

erronis

(16,727 posts)
10. Regnery - that sure rings a bell or two. Has been part of the ultra RW media for decades
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 06:33 PM
Jun 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing

Scum that will print anything not fit-to-print.

Grins

(7,844 posts)
11. Next question: Will Andrews now sue D'Souza?
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 06:36 PM
Jun 2024

And the two weasels who are True the Vote for their more active role in lies and slander?

LetMyPeopleVote

(153,746 posts)
16. The founder of True the Vote is a scam artist
Wed Jun 5, 2024, 02:55 PM
Jun 2024

The lady who formed this entity is a tea party idiot who found a way to scam her fellow conservatives



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

A former PTA mom-turned-Tea Party activist, True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht has played a pivotal role in helping drive the voter fraud movement from the political fringes to a central pillar in the Republican Party’s ideology. Casting herself as a God-fearing, small-town Texan, she’s spread the voter-fraud gospel by commanding airtime on cable television, space on the pages of Breitbart News and even theater seats, as a new feature film dramatizing her organization’s exploits, “2000 Mules,” plays in cinemas across the country.....

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. It’s 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 Bopp’s 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 Bopp’s firm “unconscionable” and “impossible.”

The organization’s 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/

This will not be the first time, or even the third or eighth time, you have read about Cathy Engelbrecht here at the beauty salon. She’s been on our radar for ten years when she was speaking in church basements and VFW halls in the Houston area, pushing the idea that it’s too damn easy to vote. She would get the attendees name and addresses, mostly very old people, and send them requests for money. She didn’t like my questions and quickly named me “that woman” and told people I was a reporter as she rolled her eyes.

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 wasn’t talking about just two people, she was talking about hundreds, thousands. She just didn’t 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 she’s being sued for taking $2 million from a donor and producing the same thing I saw her produce – diddle squat.

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