When it was released in May this year, Dinesh D'Souza's book "2,000 Mules" was quickly taken up by the Dissident Right as a generally unread reference to widespread electoral fraud in the 2020 Presidential election. The book was also linked to a film of the same name.
Less well known by those on the "Qtard" Dissident Right was the fact that the book soon ran into legal trouble and was recalled in August. Since then, it has been heavily re-edited and recently rereleased.
What was changed in the book?
NPR reports:
Such a climbdown by the publisher is deeply discrediting to the book. It is natural to assume, based on this, that D'Souza was just pushing "conspiracy theories."
But an alternative explanation is that D'Souza and his publishers were just not prepared, financially or otherwise, to counter a heavy "lawfare" launched by the organisations that they have accused of stealing the election.
There is plenty of evidence that one-sided ballot harvesting occurred in the election:
This, along with the suppression of key stories, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story, could clearly have swayed the election.
D'Souza is now saying that he will attempt to name names in a follow-up book, no doubt one that will be written with a lot of advice from lawyers.
What was changed in the book?
NPR reports:
Most notably, a passage in the recalled version of the book that accused specific, named nonprofit organizations of involvement in illegal "ballot trafficking" has been rewritten, softening certain claims and outright removing the names of the groups. Separately, sections of the book that purported to link election fraud to antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement have also been deleted. [...]
D'Souza previously said he omitted the names of the nonprofits from the film after getting into a "big fight" with lawyers, who said he could not name them. Since the 2020 election, other prominent election deniers - and the channels that hosted them - have faced lawsuits from election technology companies and election workers, who say election-related lies cost them business, led to death threats, and upended their lives.
Such a climbdown by the publisher is deeply discrediting to the book. It is natural to assume, based on this, that D'Souza was just pushing "conspiracy theories."
But an alternative explanation is that D'Souza and his publishers were just not prepared, financially or otherwise, to counter a heavy "lawfare" launched by the organisations that they have accused of stealing the election.
There is plenty of evidence that one-sided ballot harvesting occurred in the election:
This, along with the suppression of key stories, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story, could clearly have swayed the election.
D'Souza is now saying that he will attempt to name names in a follow-up book, no doubt one that will be written with a lot of advice from lawyers.
I am going to reveal the names of several of these nonprofit stash houses in my book “2000 Mules” that comes out in late August https://t.co/8Ym2FuI6vM
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) July 2, 2022
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