{"id":1469494,"date":"2022-05-09T22:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T02:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1469494"},"modified":"2022-05-09T22:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T02:44:40","slug":"dinesh-dsouzas-2000-mules-movie-alleging-voter-fraud-makes-1-million-on-streaming-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dinesh-dsouzas-2000-mules-movie-alleging-voter-fraud-makes-1-million-on-streaming-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh D\u2019Souza\u2019s \u20182000 Mules\u2019 Movie, Alleging Voter Fraud, Makes $1 Million On Streaming Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdinesh-dsouzas-2000-mules-movie-alleging-voter-fraud-makes-1-million-on-streaming-sites%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1469494&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Dinesh-DSouza-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Filmmaker Dinesh D\u2019Souza\u2019s movie alleging voter fraud in the 2020 election, \u201c2000 Mules,\u201d has made more than $1 million on streaming sites Rumble and its subscription-based platform, Locals in the first weekend out.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/the-new-socialism-with-dinesh-d-souza\">conservative political commentator\u2019s<\/a> latest film hit the streaming site at noon on Saturday, and after 12 hours it had grossed \u201cmore than one million dollars\u201d on Rumble and Locals, making the sales \u201cgood enough\u201d to put the film in the \u201cestimated box office top ten for the weekend of May 6th to May 8th,\u201d according to PRNewswire.com. The movie also played on a limited basis in selected theaters on May 2 and May 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-2000-mules-film-election-fraud-dsouza-rittenhouse-1703680\">reported<\/a> Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of \u20182000 Mules\u2019 on Rumble is a great sign for creators who do not want to be silenced or censored for their speech,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/prageru-what-is-identity-socialism\">D\u2019Souza<\/a> told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupporting creative independence is core to our values, and we are thrilled to offer creators a new way to distribute and sell movies independently,\u201d Locals President Assaf Lev told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v10rzll\/?pub=kqd4p\">D\u2019Souza said<\/a> the idea for the film came from <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v10rzll\/?pub=kqd4p\">True the Vote\u2019s<\/a> Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, who he said got a hold of a \u201ctreasure trove of cellphone data, this is called cellphone \u201cgeotracking,\u201d which they believed proved \u201celection fraud.\u201d The two purport\u00a0to show 2,000 people who allegedly made dozens of trips each to multiple drop boxes where they deposited mail-in ballots in key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-covid-technology-health-arizona-e1b49d2311bf900f44fa5c6dac406762\">Associated Press<\/a> said the film used \u201cflawed analysis of cellphone location data and ballot drop box surveillance footage\u201d to cast doubt on the 2020 election. It explained why it came to this conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>CLAIM: At least 2,000 \u201cmules\u201d were paid to illegally collect ballots and deliver them to drop boxes in key swing states ahead of the 2020 presidential election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>THE FACTS: True the Vote didn\u2019t prove this. The finding is based on false assumptions about the precision of cellphone tracking data and the reasons that someone might drop off multiple ballots, according to experts.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The film focuses on \u201cballot harvesting,\u201d which is a term for \u201cdropping off completed ballots for people besides yourself.\u201d The AP noted that the practice is \u201clegal in several states but largely illegal in the states True the Vote focused on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Iowa, said a \u201cmassive ballot harvesting\u201d dumping scheme for one candidate into drop boxes would likely be caught \u201cquickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you get just a few people involved, people start to reveal the scheme because it unravels pretty quickly,\u201d Muller told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Politifact said the movie used \u201cfaulty premises\u201d to argue election fraud and found that D\u2019Souza\u2019s claims that mules \u201cdelivered 400,000 illegal votes\u201d is \u201cinherently flawed.\u201d It also found that, \u201cwhile authorities identified isolated cases of voter fraud\u201d in the 2020 election, \u201cthese instances were in such small numbers it would not have changed the election\u2019s outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Dinesh D\u2019Souza\u2019s movie alleging voter fraud in the 2020 election, \u201c2000 Mules,\u201d has made more than $1 million on streaming sites Rumble and its subscription-based platform, Locals in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1482191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}