'Final repudiation': Dinesh D'Souza mocked after his voter fraud 'hustle' falls apart

Trump supporter Dinesh D'Souza's election fraud documentary "2,000 Mules," which was widely panned even by some conservatives, was dealt another blow this week when the group whose claims were at the center of the film acknowledged they had no evidence to back them up.

The Washington Post's Philip Bump shoveled dirt on D'Souza's film, as he called anti-voter fraud organization True the Vote's court admission that it lacked evidence to support its claims to be a "final repudiation" of "2,000 Mules."

"D’Souza’s argument depends entirely on True the Vote’s data, as he explained when we spoke in 2022," wrote Bump. "Much of it was immediately disproved, like the scene in the film where [True the Vote organizers Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips] intimate that they had used cellphone location data to solve a murder that, it turns out, had already been solved. ... At no point do they show a person at a ballot box matched to geolocation data, the purported evidence on which their allegations rest. In fact, only one map of an alleged ballot harvester’s path is shown in the film. In an email to The Washington Post, Phillips admitted that it was artificial."

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This is particularly embarrassing for D'Souza, who repeatedly cited True the Vote's purported research when asked to defend flaws in his movie's claims about widespread ballot fraud.

In fact, D'Souza at one point told Bump in the 2022 interview that True the Vote could provide him with direct evidence of voter fraud that, it turns out, the group never had.

Commenting separately on Twitter, Bump wrote of "2,000 Mules" that "the whole thing was obviously a hustle."