AP’s Fact-Checkers’ Attempt to Debunk D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” Debunked

Red State poked holes in the Associated Press’s attempted hole-poking of Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie, 2000 Mules. How? By focusing on how feeble the AP’s “fact-checks” were.

First, Red State’s Jennifer Van Laar reviewed the obvious mischief during the 2020 election.

Red State’s Scott Hounsell said, in Pennsylvania alone, except for one, Trump won the same counties as in 2016 plus one Clinton county. Also, since 2016, Democrats lost 48,000 voters. Republicans gained 150,000.

Trump won Pennsylvania in 2016 by 45,000 votes but according to Politico’s election map, in 2020, somehow Joe Biden won by 80,000 votes. Shouldn’t Republicans wonder how he did that? 2000 Mules provides evidence worth exploring.

But fact-checkers such as at Politifact and the AP ineffectively attack the technology the movie cites. The AP quotes a Notre Dame professor saying it’s “stretching it a lot…” to say the “cellular evidence” shows the “mules” were at ballot boxes.

But the movie shows videos of people dumping ballots at drop boxes and, as Ava Garcia wrote at The True Defender, “[T]hey’re naming people by name!”

Military and law enforcement use of this technology also vouches for its accuracy. Even the AP wrote, “[E]xperts say cellphone location data… can only reliably track a smartphone within a few meters — not close enough to know whether someone actually dropped off a ballot or just walked or drove nearby.”

But, 2000 Mules doesn’t show visits to one or two ballot boxes but to five or more. So, unless they “walked or drove nearby” multiple ballot boxes, covering a wide area, the evidence is worth pursuing.

In addition, the AP says because ballot boxes are in “high traffic areas,” people could have “many reasons” to be near a “ballot box on multiple occasions.”

Okay. But, Van Laar wonders, why would people go in the “middle of the night?” Further, why are these same people also walking or driving nearby at least “five different nonprofit organizations focused on get-out-the-vote efforts?”

But the left has no problem promoting the accuracy of cellphone tracking tech when it suits their cause. As The New York Times explained about Jan. 6th, “They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

It seems America has a two-tiered fact-checker system to go along with its two-tiered justice system.

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