All posts tagged "Dinesh D?Souza"

A former Republican and New York Times columnist signaled Friday that MAGA's "identity crisis" has imploded in a splintered fight between right-wing influencers.

David French, a lifelong conservative who left the GOP because of its embrace of Donald Trump, told CNN anchor Dana Bash that the group that right-wing podcasters are calling each other out during Turning Point USA's event in Arizona — the largest gathering among that coalition since MAGA podcaster Charlie Kirk was killed.

At the event, podcaster Ben Shapiro argued that the conservative movement was "in danger" and called out Dinesh D'Souza, Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson....

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting

The right-wing media company that published the purported documentary and book “2000 Mules” announced late last week that it was pulling them from distribution. Salem Media Group also apologized to an Atlanta man for false claims in the film that he’d illegally cast the ballots of others.

It is the latest in a long series of hits to the film’s credibility, though the movie and its makers — Dinesh D’Souza and conservative nonprofit True the Vote — appear to still have a few lives left. ...

Fraudsters stole more than $25,000 from the campaign of a prominent Republican congressional candidate in Texas — the latest in an epidemic of political campaign thefts, according to a Raw Story analysis of federal campaign records.

The campaign for Scott Armey, a Republican U.S. House candidate for Texas' 26th Congressional District, lost $25,013 through a “fraudulent transaction," according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.

The fraudulent transaction took place on Feb. 9 and involved “media placement” from political media firm SRCP Media, the FEC filing indicated.
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Defenders of embattled conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza are alleging that a far-reaching conspiracy on the part of angry liberals is to blame for his recent indictment for campaign fraud. Media Matters has published a round-up of some of the right-wing players who have gone to bat for D'Souza since it was announced that he was indicted on federal campaign finance charges.

Conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D'Souza was indicted in federal court on Thursday for allegedly arranging for $20,000 worth of campaign contributions -- far above legal limits, Reuters reported.

Dinesh D'Souza who was something vaguely interesting or of marginal importance at one time or another and then managed to parlay that into a gig at fakey Christian college housed in an abandoned Manhattan skyscraper until he got shit-canned for boning the help , was twitter-twatting today and, oh you know what? That Obamer character? He reminds Dinesh of some other dude. Now who could it be? It's on the tip of my tongue...