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BUCK: Here in studio Ann Coulter, 13-time New York Times best-selling author. Her Substack, Unsafe I believe its called; is that right

COULTER: Well, you go to it, AnnCoulter.Substack.com. So, its the same as my website, AnnCoulter.com. But insert Substack.

BUCK: There we go. Substack. We, I mean the whole news cycle today is focused on Marthas Vineyard and the deportation, it seems, of 50 illegal migrants from the Vineyard to Cape Cod right away. What do you think about this tactic, this situation?

COULTER: DeSantis is a genius. At first, I was thinking, Ah, the season is over; its kind of showy. This is the most brilliant thing Ive ever seen. It is funny. Even then I thought it is kind of funny, Marthas Vineyard.

But I dont know if you consume the liberal media as avidly as I do. New York Times instantly had an article, Well, the people of Marthas Vineyard are showing their compassion and the church and the volunteers, and then Joy-Ann Reid last night, Huh ho, this is how real Christians behave.

An hour later, buses shipping them out. Video, Get em on the buses. So, DeSantis has got to just keep sending them. I mean, this is outrageous, these out these states and cities that call themselves sanctuary cities.

When they are the most lily white, upper crust places. Yeah, okay, you take it. You start weeping about, Oh, but theyre children. Soon as they come to there, their lovely little all-white resort towns, Ship em out.

CLAY: Youve been talking about the border for a long time, Ann. And obviously Trump in 16 made it the signature issue of his campaign. But Buck and I talk all the time about the fact that almost no attention is given to the border at all. And people can say, Oh, this is a big political stunt.

But you just said it; isnt it a brilliant political stunt on behalf of the Arizona, the Texas, and the Florida governors to be going to D.C., to New York, to Chicago, and now Marthas Vineyard? Weve talked more about the border and made it a front door issue right now

COULTER: Yes.

CLAY: in the midterms than Ive seen in months, if not years.

COULTER: No, it is so brilliant, I think I know their GoFundMe would throw you off immediately, but there are conservative versions of GoFundMe. And I think we need to start whatever the equivalent GoFundMe is to get these governors, Ducey, Abbott, and DeSantis to keep it up, keep it up, keep it up. Just keep sending. Overload Marthas Vineyard so we can see the famous liberal compassion.

But I do want to correct you on one little thing, it drives me crazy about Republicans not you, Clay not just the border. No, legal immigration, it is something you cannot get the Republican Party to talk about. I mean, this is why I wrote In Trump We Trust and supported Donald Trump in 2016.

Ted Cruzs version of this was no, well just bring this as many Third World immigrants but well do it legally. Okay. You still have the same culture-destroying, wage-suppressing effects. No. What Trump promised was a five-year moratorium. Promises made, promises betrayed.

BUCK: And we also have the Fetterman situation with Dr. Oz that weve been drilling down on this week. Fetterman this is, first of all, I think the fact that he goes around everywhere dressed with the schlump Im wearing a hoodie right now, but this one is, you know, this is from one of our sponsors

CLAY: Youre also

COULTER: Not running for governor.

BUCK: Im also not running for governor. But unjust anyone was calling me out for the hoodie-wearing. But this go goes around, hes all schlumpy, and it seems to me like its condescending. Its like hes, you know, costume-playing a working-class guy. He actually had his parents paying his bills into his forties. His health issues are obvious, and then you find out that his plan for crime was

COULTER: Release em all.

BUCK: 30% of prisons, let them all out. I mean, who is voting for him in Pennsylvania? What is going on here?

COULTER: Well, right now the polls show the Democrat ahead in Pennsylvania and New York, my two upset races are Zeldin Lee Zeldin in New York and Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania. And for Pennsylvania, exactly what you say, Buck, this guy is this hulking, weird looking, Michael Moore-style fellow, like you say.

Tattoos up and down his arm, the hoodie, the weird goatee thing, he looks like, what do they call, the Kanamit from Twilight Zone to serve man? Look it up. He looks exactly like those alien creatures. Its a cookbook. But particularly his record on crime, and thats what I wrote about this week because hes a big, fat liar.

Look. Its one thing he released more as lieutenant governor, released more murderers, criminals than anythe parole board ever has. He oversaw

BUCK: 40% in Philadelphia, 40% of people in Philadelphia area prisons.

COULTER: And were talking about murderers, which he is now lying about. Hes a giving you bald-faced liar, and this was, you know, a hugean awfulthe Horton brothers, Lee and Dennis Horton, it was an awful, awful anti-Latino hate crime where they go into the Latino bar.

Dennis Dennis Horton blows away the Latino bartender, then shoots two other Hispanics in the bar, obviously an anti-Latino hate crime. And his brother, Lee, just takes the wallet of the other guy, Robert Leaf goes around us and puts a gun to the customers heads and gets them to turn over their wallets.

They were sentenced to not only life in prison but life in prison plus another 18 years for the associated crimes. They were caught within minutes of leaving the bar. There was an eyewitness to the car pulling away describing the car and giving four of six license plate numbers. Within a minute the cops pull over this car.

Thats a pretty good description. And, lo and behold, theres a recently fired rifle, the gun that Dennis Horton used to blow away the Latino bartender was a rifle.

Hard to conceal. They have a cockamamie story. Its one thing if Fetterman I totally disagree with him because they continue to deny their guilt but its one thing if Fetterman says, Ah, come on, theyve served long enough, its been 27 years. Its hard to employ ex-cons. Lets give them another chance. Theyre old and

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Fine. Say that. But thats not what hes saying. He is lying. And hes saying they were innocent, they were convicted, they were serving time in prison. This is part of what I wrote a lot about in my book Mugged and the Central Park rape, part of the left-wing strategy

BUCK: The Central Park Five we talked about this yesterday with Ken Burns, people now just take it, they say, Oh, they were proven innocent. Thats not true.

COULTER: They were guilty as sin. Its in my booked Mugged and youll notice theres this obsession, they dont care if an innocent person goes to prison, as long as the public loses faith in the criminal justice system. As long as you feel like you cant trust a trial. There are nothe only innocent people who have ever gone to prison are the ones who were gone after for political reasons by liberal prosecutors. Well, I wont list them. But

BUCK: Theres a lot of them.

COULTER: Those are the only ones. The Proud Boys.

CLAY: And you mentioned New York and Pennsylvania, your upsets. I want to make sure we mention this because were gonna talk to both of these women next week. Oregon governors race, the Cook political report just shifted it from lean Democrat to a toss-up.

COULTER: Amazing.

CLAY: I know our listeners out in Portland are not surprised by this cause the murder rate has skyrocketed there, and there is a great deal of anger. And then the other one, Ann, that is not getting a lot of attention is the Washington Senate race.

When you look at what Tiffany Smiley is doing there, shes going to be on with us, shes giving Patty Murray a real run in Washington State. We know whats gone on in Seattle. I think the Seattle-Portland disasters, Christine Drazan is the person whos running in Oregon. Those would be two seismic shifts

COULTER: Yes.

CLAY: in the Pacific Northwest where Republicans have a real chance because of what has occurred in Seattle and Portland. Im sure youve been there, Ann. Those are beautiful cities

COULTER: They were.

CLAY: the Democrats have destroyed.

COULTER: Yes, they have. Well, I hope Republicans are paying attention. You notice what all of these races have in common? Theyre all about crime. Crime, crime, crime. We can win on crime. Buck, you remember when Giuliani was first elected, he was down in the polls, but you had Democrats, Upper West Side liberals, Oh, yeah, Im voting for David Dinkins and then they get into the privacy of the voting booth and theyve had it.

Theyve had it. Theyre voting for law and order. This is how Republicans win, and its been driving me crazy and Ive been talking about it on my Substack with Mickey Kaus. Crime, immigration, wokeness. I mean, Mitch McConnell plan is lets sit back and coast on inflation. Well, inflation could change and people notice inflation. Please stop running on inflation. Its crime, its crime, its crime.

BUCK: Its amazing to hear and were speaking to Ann Coulter. Subscribe to Anns Substack. Go to AnnCoulter.com. You can see more of this there. Its amazing, Ann, to see how you have these horrific high-profile incidents. Clay brought up Eliza Fletcher in his hometown of Nashville

CLAY: Memphis.

BUCK: Oh. Pardon me. Memphis in his home state.

CLAY: Mom jogging out at Memphis.

BUCK: And there was just this video of an execution of

COULTER: I tweeted it.

BUCK: a south Asian clerk in Mississippi who complied with all the armed robbers requests, gave him the money, gave no resistance, got down on his knees, basically saying look, just dont hurt me, take all the money, I will cause no problem.

Executed him in cold blood. He had already been convicted of multiple felonies, was out on parole and had an outstanding warrant for him while he was out on parole. Its almostand then they turn around, the Democrats, and they say, Oh, we dont know, maybe we should hire more social workers.

COULTER: Yes. Yes, and we cant. Oh, and we have a mass incarceration problem. There are too many black bodies in prison. This is the theme of my book Mugged. The Democrats, they just love in particular black criminals. Look, America. You got a choice.

Youre going to have a disproportionate number of black men in prison, not because blacks are more likely to be criminal, but theres a larger cohort of criminals within the black population than there is, for example, among Asians. And the left-wing push on this is, No, we must have exactly proportion numbers in the prison for arrests, for stop-and-frisk, for bail.

If youre going to demand equality, youre gonna have a lot of crime. And its a good thing, you know, immigrants are arriving here and getting a look at the Democrats absolute sacrifice of everything to worship at the feet of black criminals. And boy, are they getting immigrants getting that education fast.

BUCK: Ann Coulter, everybody, go to AnnCoulter.com, subscribe to her Substack. Ann, it was good to see you here.

COULTER: Good to see you.

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Conservative media personality Ann Coulter accused her colleagues in conservative media of "lying" about former President Donald Trump's popularity, saying the Republican base has begun to move on from the person who has been its de facto figurehead since his election in 2016.

In an audio clip posted to her Substack on Tuesday morning, the In Trump We Trust author highlighted numerous conservative victories across the country since 2020 that had little to do with Trump and everything to do with the appeal of the broader conservative platform, focusing intently on Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's victory in the once-blue state in late 2021 and the lingering appeal of (Trump-endorsed) Sarah Palin, whose political comeback has propelled her to a leading position in the race to represent Alaska in Congress.

Coulter equated Trump's most loyal supporters to those of the Grateful Dead, following him from place to place, listening to the same songs and "wearing the costumes" indicative of a fan club, rather than the embodiment of a broad political coalition.

"Trump fans are having a lot of fun, but it isn't indicative of a movement that's sweeping the nation," Coulter said on the podcast. "It's not the party of Trump. It's safe to come back, and it's safe for Republicans to stand up and run without Donald Trump."

It's not the first time Coulter has questioned Trump's viability as the party's presumptive nominee for president in 2024. In January, Coulter published a column dissecting Trump's poll numbers, concluding that his low net favorable ratings with key demographics posed a potential weak spot for Trump in another run.

Prior to that, she eviscerated Trump in other conservative media, calling him a shill for big banks in a 2018 interview and "abjectly stupid" in a 2021 podcast with Andrew Sullivan, where she described the former president as a narcissistic, ridiculous, tacky, vulgar, arriviste, this guy was."

Entering the 2022 midterms, not only is Coulter is questioning whether Trump is viable, but whether he as a leader of a political movement is viable at a time when other conservative leaders are appearing to pick up the mantle.

Coulter argued that Trump-styled politicsparticularly in battleground statescould leave Republicans vulnerable in November, and that Trump often isn't leading the political conversation but mirroring it, involving himself in campaigns only when a candidate appears to be a sure bet for victory.

"Trump's primary endorsements, by and large, you figure out who's going to win, wait until the last minute and leap in front of the parade pretending to be leading it," Coulter said. "He didn't do that in Georgia. When he goes off and does his own thinking, it doesn't turn out so well.

"You don't need to suck up to Trump anymore, talk radio hosts, TV hosts, Republicans running for office. He's done. He's over."

Though numerous Republicans have begun preparing presidential campaignsincluding figures like former Vice President Mike Pencethe likelihood of Trump as a candidate ultimately comes down to him, even as he grapples with high-profile court cases in New York and Florida. Trump was the top pick to run as his party's nominee at CPAC this year and remains a heavy favorite in early polling on the 2024 presidential field.

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Former President Donald Trump is politically done, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said on her podcast Unsafe this week.

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Coulter, the author of In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!, went from one of Trumps biggest fans to breaking with him over his failure to complete his promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Early polls suggest Republican primary voters prefer Trump as their 2024 nominee but with some indications that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is gaining steam. Nonetheless, Coulter was adamant that the ex-president's political career is over.

Coulter acknowledged she has made similar arguments in the past but now says there are data to back up that he really doesnt have a lot of Trump die-hards anymore.

You dont need to suck up to Trump anymore, conservative talk radio hosts, talk TV hosts, Republicans running for office, she said. Hes done. Hes over.

Coulter cited the humiliating defeat of former Sen. David Perdue, who had Trumps backing, in his Georgia gubernatorial bid to challenge incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

Hes one of many Republicans sitting back now, saying, Oh, I wish I hadnt listened to Trump, she said.

Trumps primary endorsements, she argued, were often made after he figured out who was going to be the front-runner, and then he would jump in front of the parade rather than actually be a kingmaker.

Coulter also pointed to a recent FiveThirtyEight poll that showed most Republicans supporting Trump but indicated that broken down into individual demographic groups, many had negative views of Trump, including those from groups who might otherwise be inclined to vote Republican.

Theyre thinking to themselves, Wow, I always thought of myself as a Republican, but if Trump is the Republican Party, maybe Im an independent thats not quite me, bombast, insults, and no results.

Republicans, its not the party of Trump, its safe to come back, she added. And its safe for Republicans to stand up and run without Donald Trump. Look at [Virginia Gov. Glenn] Youngkin.

Coulter said conservative media also disproportionately boost Trump supporters and allies over Trump-skeptical or more neutral Republicans.

Coulter cited supposedly dwindling Trump rally attendance as another data point.

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Theyre like Deadheads, Coulter said of those who still attend Trump rallies. Theyre following him from place to place. He sings the same songs Im sure the Trump-heads are having a lot of fun, but it isnt indicative of a movement sweeping the nation.

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Republicans, can you stop screaming like hyenas at every little indignity suffered by our former president? Donald Trump wouldnt lift a finger to help you.

Yes, it was asinine for the FBI to stage a raid on Mar-a-Lago when we all know the only documents Trump wanted were his letters and photos with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (North Korea has nukes. See? Nuclear documents.) Trump needs those for his scrapbook, to accompany the photos of him with Kim Kardashian, Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Hannity.

Still, the raid isnt going to affect your life. It barely affected Trumps. He was golfing in New Jersey at the time.

You want to be mad at the FBI? This is why you should be angry. Rather than fight crime, the agency has turned itself into the wingman for Defund the Police. That could get you and your family killed.

Consider how they treated the cops in Louisville, Kentucky, who risked their lives trying to serve a search warrant on a major fentanyl dealers moll, Breonna Taylor, on March 13, 2020. The true story was discussed in last weeks column, as well as my Dec. 16, 2020, column.

Heres the rest of the story, as told by Sgt. John Mattingly in his book, 12 Seconds in the Dark.

In the spring of 2020, as the defenseless officers were being smeared by Oprah, LeBron James, Cardi B., Beyonce, Common, Kim Kardashian, Alicia Keys, Demi Lovato, Ellen DeGeneres, Amy Schumer, Ice Cube, Diddy, Kamala Harris, the entire MSNBC on-air talent, and on and on a confidential informant revealed that a hit had been put on the officers by two black motorcycle clubs, No Haterz and STR8 RYDERZ.

And heres something random: Breonnas mother was dating the president of one of the clubs.

A few weeks later, the ATF received information that the clubs Chicago chapter would be driving to Louisville that weekend to kill the officers. The targeted cops were given security and a description of the cars and motorcycles coming for them.

What happened next would force the officers to flee and live in hiding for the rest of their lives, thanks to the inaction of the FBI.

Heres how Sgt. Mattingly describes it: On May 31, 2020, I was told the FBI corroborated two separate threats from different sources. We received a call at 10 p.m. asking us to pack our bags and leave our house. We had to sell our house that we lived in for six weeks and have been in hiding ever since.

It seems a $50,000 bounty had been put on the heads of the officers. Breonnas birthday would have been that Friday. As part of the balloon release celebrating the occasion, the organizers wanted to have something to celebrate. To wit: Dead cops.

At least the FBI had the officers backs! No, Im sorry, the FBI Trumps FBI sided with the guys whod put a bounty on the cops heads. The agency dropped the case after a remarkably short 2 1/2 weeks, announcing implausibly that the informant was unreliable.

Well, hed proven reliable in the past. The informant was, even then, being used in another active case. And of course, no one at FBI headquarters had bothered talking to him. But so desperate was the FBI to close the case that it was willing to blow up one of its own informants: Once ruled unreliable, a source can never be used in another federal case.

Mattingly says the FBI refused to investigate credible threats on the officers lives because of the optics of going after a mother in a nationally sensitive case. Shouldnt it be the reverse: The FBI must investigate because Breonnas mother was affiliated with a club planning to murder the cops whom she blamed for her daughters death? (In fact, Breonna died because her good pal Kenneth Walker shot at the police. Ironically, a no-knock warrant the officers knocked and yelled, POLICE! would have saved her life.)

Local FBI agents in Louisville were enraged. Asked what the targeted cops were supposed to do, the FBI bosses said: Tell them to relocate. Two weeks later, Mattingly had to watch as the FBI sent 15 agents to investigate a racist rope in Bubba Wallaces stall at NASCAR.

Right-wingers, save your breath defending the most disloyal man alive. Do something useful and get a job at the FBI. Just be sure to put BLM on your resume! The next Republican president (Ron DeSantis) is going to need a lot of help.

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"2000 Mules is Dinesh DSouzas application for a job in the next Trump administration, or at least for a talking head spot on Russia Today. It takes the same debunked claims about the 2020 election and adds a few more hunks of bigotry and bad production values in an effort to keep fleecing the MAGAt sheep.

The specific evidence he uses cell phone location data is discussed and dismissedby Reuters hereandnoted Leftist Ann Coulter here.They cover the main problems with DSouzas claims thoroughly. I will refer to the Reuters piece several times throughout my discussion here. DSouza uses three main techniques to create his illusion of nefariousness: imagery, labelling, and concealment of facts that change the interpretation of events. I will discuss each in turn.

IMAGERY

DSouza copies the aesthetics of anAll The Presidents Men type heroic-journalists-exposing-massive-corruption thriller. He suggests, without ever providing anything that anyone else could corroborate, that the 2020 election was stole.The movie starts with a grainy image of Joe Biden and a video clip of someone in a grey hoodie putting something in a drop box, but with no identification or explanation, just a clip of someone dressed in the standard Scare The Wingnuts costume in bad light. He returns to the spy movie imagery again and again in the film, trying to suggest by image that something nefarious happened without actually saying words that include provable statements.

The scene cuts to DSouza stalking through Washington DC asking whether the election really was that secure. Then we get clips of wing nuts suggesting that the election was fraudulent. Included in this was a clip from local Austin stations KXAN asserting that the Travis County clerk locked Republican poll watchers out. This assertion came fromfailed GOP candidate Jennifer Fleck,but the film doesnt provide that information. No charges ever resulted from Flecks claims. Next, there is a short clip from an Atlanta station saying that a software glitch delayed counting, Rand Paul saying there was election fraud, and a short clip of security camera recordings which a Gateway Pundit announcer claims to be someone dropping off ballots somewhere at 3 a.m. Nothing in any of these clips is ever discussed again in the movie.

DSouza then shows a clip fromProject Veritaswhich the voiceover claims to be of a man selling a voter registration from. It is not possible to identify anyone in the video. PV adds helpful labels to each of the participants: VOTER and BALLOT HARVESTER, and adds a big red arrow pointing to POCKET MONEY supposedly changing hands for the registration form. Notably PV doesnt stated that the BALLOT HARVESTER is paying the VOTER for a vote, only a registration form. This is, again, imagery from thrillers designed to suggest something bad happened but without needing to provide demonstrable corroboration.

DSouza convenes a meeting of his fellow Salem Now pundits, including Sebastian Gorka, Dennis Prager, Larry Elder, and Charlie Kirk. They chat and pretend to discuss whether there is evidence of election fraud. DSouza films this on a set designed to look like an Ivy League library lots of bookshelves, leather wing chairs, nice panelling and everyone pretends the discussion isnt scripted. Elder says Democrats would have done anything to beat Trump, and goes to the bottomless well of wingnut obsessions by quoting Jane Fonda. They conclude, unsurprisingly, that the election was fraudulent.

DSouzas next section really leans into the Fake Woodward and Bernstein elements. He and a woman are on a set that looks like a kitchen in an ordinary house. DSouza gets a phone call from Catherine Engelbrecht ofTrue the Vote, in which Engelbrecht says she has lots of useful evidence. The scene cuts to a parking lot in the back of a strip center, showing a sedan drive up toward two people next to a dumpster. This doesnt last but a second or two, because showing the scene from outside the vehicle reminds viewers that this is a movie, with camera operators, and not a couple of brave journalists meeting their secret source.

Next we go inside to an overhead shot of a set that looks like a basement. Theres a table in the middle of a big room, a barely-visible map of the southwest corner of the US, some blue-painted boxes that look a little like ballot boxes, and a desk partiallyconcealed by a bank of lockers. Engelbrecht and her partner, Gregg Phillips, sit with DSouza and the other woman at a table. Engelbrecht claims to be non-partisan and discussesthis election.Phillips then describes what he claims is a pattern to election fraud: non-profits hire people to collect ballots and others to deposit the ballots. Engelbrecht interjects that it is illegal to get paid for your ballot. They then claim to have evidence of fraud in the form of cell phone data.

She is correct. It is illegal to pay someone to vote.

LABELLING

DSouza and company create pejorative labels for the various participants in their asserted scheme. These labels are not terms of art used in any specific field but words and phrases DSouza and his collaborators coined for their own enterprise. Those words and phrases are mules, ballot trafficking and stash houses.

Engelbrecht and Phillipsclaimthat the cell phone data they obtained shows mules taking ballots from non-profits and delivering those ballots to drop boxes. It should be noted that theyadmitthat theycoined the phrase ballot trafficking because it sounds like the phrases drug trafficking and human trafficking. There is no specific crime of ballot trafficking. They use the word mule to describe the people delivering the ballots because thats the same word used for people who carry illegal drugs. They claim that the mules collect ballots fromNot only is this a way to imply an unproven connection to crime, its also racist. Drug mule conjures images of scary brown people from south of the Mexican border invading White America.

Supposedly these mules would obtain ballots from what they call stash houses. They coined the phrase stash house to describe non-profits that collect ballots and distribute them, which is in some undefined way nefarious. DSouza again coins a pejorative phrase stash house which conjures images of drug dealers or other criminals to disguise the fact that he doesnt actually provide any facts here. DSouza never names any of these non-profits other than to state that they are aligned with Democrats. That, apparently, is enough for him to convict them, but it shouldn't be enough to persuade anyone else. It is a really good example of his tactic of creating phrases to generate an emotional reaction but that dont state any facts. Its a nice way of avoiding a libel suit but doesnt prove anything. (See the links at this Wikipedia article for good discussions of what happens when someone makes unsupported assertions about private citizens.)

Concealment of Facts

DSouza and company fail repeatedly to analyze the stuff they present as evidence to show whether or not it proves what they claim. The Reuters article above discusses the problems with the specific geotracking: its not possible to prove that the person didnt have a good reason to follow the same routes and stop at the same places during the period in question. Drop boxes are usually in libraries or post offices, which get a lot of traffic for reasons unrelated to the election. Nowhere in this entire flick does DSouza, Engelbrecht, and company ever note the locations of any of the drop boxes. In the absence of this vital evidence, their entire case falls apart.

Their concealment of facts and failure to analyze what they present is best demonstrated by the part of the movie devoted to security camera recordings.Engelbrecht claims they matched security camera recordings of the drop boxes to their cell phone records, and shows a couple of clips from those security cameras. It should be noted that despite their claims that the people in the recordings visited dozens of drop boxes, they only show one recording of each person. The only evidence of these other visits are their assertions.

In one, a woman wearing blue disposable gloves that look like medical gloves drops an envelope into a drop box located near the door of a large building. Engelbrecht makes a great fuss over the fact that the woman goes straight to the drop box and doesnt have to look around for it. Theres what appears to be an ATM near the box, facing the camera. The possibility that the woman has been to that location to use the ATM isnt mentioned. Furthermore, the clip doesnt show every move the woman makes from her arrival, so its possiblethat she looked around off camera or at some time before dropping the ballot.

Engelbrecht mentions that the device associated with this person is from South Carolina and implies that means that this person is casting an illegal ballot. Engelbrecht does not provide the evidence which leads her to conclude that the device, which I assume is a cell phone since theyre whole case is based on cell phone data, is from South Carolina. I make another assumption that the number associated with the device has a South Carolina area code. First, obviously, cell phones are MOBILE. This person can legitimately have a South Carolina number and still live in Georgia because she moved recently, especially if she didnt change service carriers. Since 2003, cell phone carriers have to allow customers to port old numbers to new carriers. (Seehere.) Therefore, its possible that this person kept a number from a previous residence even when moving. Another possibility is that the woman is posting a ballot for a family member, which, as the Reuters article linked above notes, is legal in Georgia. Thus, this clip proves nothing.

Another clip shows a man walking a dog and placing a ballot in a box that is also at a polling place. This clip happens during daylight, and there is a line of voters observing the action.Phillips comments on the brazenness of the dog-walkers actions, adding people watching you cheat. Again, there is no actual indication that this man is cheating at all, just Phillipss accusation by voice-over.

In the final section of 2000 Mules devoted to what he claims his evidence,DSouza then shows several Power Point slides with numbers and simple multiplication equations on them. He shows the asserted number of mules for several swing states, the number of asserted illegal ballots, multiplies the two numbers and gets what he states are the number of illegal votes. He does this two times for each state, once with a lower number of mules and again with a higher number. Since he hasnt provided anything else at all, even of the useless quality of the Georgia security camera scenes, for any of those other states, these calculations are completely worthless. In case anyone needs reminding, statistics need to be connected to actual, provable events to have any merit as evidence. Stats are narrative in number form, and the numbers are only as good as the narrative, which in this case isnt even close to being good for anything.

It should be clear that after more than 60 lawsuits all being dismissed, that Trumps claims about the 2020 election are lies. That much others have confirmed, mostly the judges that heard those silly lawsuits. Its still worth paying attention to right wing propaganda to see the techniques they use to manipulate emotions in the absence of facts. Showing the world how the illusionist does his magic is the only effective way to counteract the illusion. 2000 Mules uses all the standard techniques: imagery, labelling, and concealment of facts that would alter the asserted interpretation. If we progressives want to defeat the right wing propaganda mill, we need to recognize those techniques and counter them.

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