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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. ...

The radio station co-hosting the GOP primary debate Wednesday night is staffed by “idiots” hired to cheerlead for Donald Trump, a former U.S. Representative told the Washington Post Wednesday.

Salem Media Group — a 2016 GOP debate co-host and the group behind the thoroughly fact-checked election theft documentary “2000 Mules” — shoulders the hefty responsibility with NBC News, which has garnered some criticism over the partnership, the Post reports.

“They brought in these idiots whose only cachet was they were Trump cheerleaders,” former Salem host and U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh reportedly said of the media group. “You could not stand there being even ambivalent to Trump."...