Group Behind Dinesh D’Souza’s Big Lie Doc Inadvertently Admits It Didn’t Help Lead to Arrest of Murder Suspects
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The group behind the conspiratorial, 2020 election-denying film 2000 Mules inadvertently admitted to NPR that contrary to repeated claims, it didn’t help the arrest of murder suspects.
NPR investigative correspondent Tom Dreisbach reported on Tuesday that the suggestion the True the Vote analysis in the Dinesh D’Souza film about “device tracking data” having “helped lead to the arrest of two murder suspects” was “false.”
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Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film “2,000 Mules” suggests that its analysis of device tracking data is so airtight it helped lead to the arrest of two murder suspects.
In response to questions from NPR, the group behind the film acknowledged that’s false. https://t.co/rH9Nsw7e4G
— Tom Dreisbach (@TomDreisbach) May 17, 2022
True The Vote’s Gregg Phillips claimed in the documentary that the group turned over information to the FBI that helped in the arrest of two suspects in the 2020 murder of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner in Atlanta.
In a statement to NPR, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation denied receiving information from the group.
“The GBI did not receive information from True the Vote that connected to the Secoriea Turner investigation,” a GBI spokesperson told the outlet.
An attorney for Turner’s family, Mawuli Davis, also told Dreisbach, “I am not aware that any of this occurred.”
Following this, Dreisbach said he contacted True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht, who “told me in an email that the group provided the FBI its analysis of the Turner case ‘on or about October 25, 2021.’”
However, he continued, “authorities announced the indictments of the suspects on Aug. 13, 2021 – two months earlier.”
Dreisbach said he couldn’t “confirm True The Vote provided information to the FBI” as “Engelbrecht would not name the FBI contact she said True The Vote provided the information to” and “the FBI declined to comment, as is standard practice.”
In a tweet on Tuesday, D’Souza mocked the report: “A kind of hysteria is breaking out on the Left over ‘2000 Mules.’ NPR and the Washington Post are having editorial fits. Atlanta Journal Constitution is desperate to do its part. New York Times has launched a hit team. I can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed myself so much!”
A kind of hysteria is breaking out on the Left over “2000 Mules.” NPR and the Washington Post are having editorial fits. Atlanta Journal Constitution is desperate to do its part. New York Times has launched a hit team. I can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed myself so much!
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) May 17, 2022
