2000 Mules stars claim all their damning proof of election fraud was deleted by Chinese hackers 😂

[Nevilledog]

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Here's Gregg Phillips and True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht, the stars of Dinesh D'Souza's voter fraud conspiracy theory film "2000 Mules," claiming Chinese hackers deleted their purported evidence when they initially tried to upload it online: "It was cleaned out."


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12:57 PM · Aug 16, 2022

I'm sorry, but MAGAts are the stupidest motherfuckers in the whole world.

The shit they believe.....

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WATCH: The Moment When The ‘2,000 Mules’ Folks Admit Their Supposed Evidence Is Nonsense https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/watch-the-moment-when-the-2000-mules-folks-admit-their-supposed-evidence-is-nonsense… via @TPM
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WATCH: The Moment When The ‘2,000 Mules’ Folks Admit Their Supposed Evidence Is Nonsense
True believers in Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election gathered in...
1:25 PM · Aug 16, 2022

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/watch-the-moment-when-the-2000-mules-folks-admit-their-supposed-evidence-is-nonsense

True believers in Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election gathered in Arizona this weekend to examine what was promised to be a mountain of evidence showing a sophisticated, elaborate, and successful plot to steal the presidency.

What they got was: A mostly empty website.

Some context: The event, dubbed “The Pit” by its organizers, was headlined by the stars of this year’s break-out conspiracy theory hit, “2,000 Mules.” The Dinesh D’Souza film chronicles the efforts of True The Vote, the right-wing organization that has asserted, falsely, that a network of “mules” deposited fraudulent ballots for Joe Biden in drop boxes across the country.

D’Souza’s film infamously… didn’t actually show this. Despite promising incontrovertible evidence that drop box surveillance videos and cell phone tracking data would prove the existence of this extensive mule network, the film itself showed just a few isolated videos of people dropping regular-degular ballots off at drop boxes: Nothing illegal. Even a snazzy graphic of a map included in the film — which internet sleuths identified as, apparently, a map of Moscow — didn’t prove anything.

Cue Saturday’s event. The movie’s stars — True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, who pushed the lie that millions of undocumented people voted in 2016 — have hyped the gathering for months. It would be the moment when, finally, they would reveal the raw data purportedly behind their claims. Or, as a promotional video in May put it, the moment they would “pull the ripcord” and share their evidence.

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[Lovie777]

1. Oh please make it stop . . ....

[Whiskeytide]

4. I'm kind of enjoying it. It's like a sitcom. n/t

[Hortensis]

18. :) In syndication! "Exploiting the Big Lie has become a lucrative enterprise,

growing from a cottage industry to a thriving economy." Mother Jones.

I won't be watching but imagine it'll run for at least another couple years given how slow the courts are.

[Torchlight]

2. I'm sorry Mrs. Crabapple, the Chinese ate my homework

They lengths some people will go to avoid presenting evidence (or to cover up the lack of evidence) has me shaking my head.

[Stuckinthebush]

3. Uh huh

How very convenient.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

5. Is this a digital version of the dog ate my homework?

[Nevilledog]

7. So long as the dog was a Shar Pei or Chinese Crested

[MarineCombatEngineer]

12. LOL.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Total confabulation.

So these dopes want everyone to believe that there was only one single copy of this precious file. No backups. No drafts. No data sources. No cached versions. No shared copies. No email in or outboxes. No undelete. No evidence of hack. Etcetera. All wiped clean but phantom Chinese hackers? What complete bullshit. There was never any evidence of anything except these losers and their criminality.

[Nevilledog]

8. They grifted a ton of money from these idiots

[C_U_L8R]

10. If I wanted to make easy money...

I'd sell bullshit to magats. They eat it up.

[Brainfodder]

9. Sorry assholes, we have heard of backups.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. ....

[modrepub]

13. I Had A Winning Mega Millions Ticket

but my kid ran it through the washing machine last night.

[JanMichael]

14. The dog ate their homework is more believable.

[Beausoleil]

15. Sixth-graders are more creative than that! n/t

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Too dumb to save copies?

Or, too smart, not to post it online?

I think we get the con....

[Hortensis]

17. But unbelievable that the dog ate $MILLIONS in donations meant to combat voter fraud.

Someone should come get that poor dog. Any pooch around these people's likely to get trampled before long by state and federal investigators.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Idiots of this caliber will be working elections this year.

The radicalized Republican party has used intimidation and harassment to get experienced election workers to quit.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. True the Vote founder is a scam artist

I was amused to see that TFG cited True the Vote and the felon Dinesh D'Souza in his 12-page letter defending his lies about voter fraud. True the vote is a scam. The lady who formed this entity is a tea party idiot who found a way to scam her fellow conservatives

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A former PTA mom-turned-Tea Party activist, True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht has played a pivotal role in helping drive the voter fraud movement from the political fringes to a central pillar in the Republican Party’s ideology. Casting herself as a God-fearing, small-town Texan, she’s spread the voter-fraud gospel by commanding airtime on cable television, space on the pages of Breitbart News and even theater seats, as a new feature film dramatizing her organization’s exploits, “2000 Mules,” plays in cinemas across the country.....

And while the claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election have been dismissed out of hand by courts and debunked by audits, even those led by Republicans, the story of True the Vote highlights how exploiting the Big Lie has become a lucrative enterprise, growing from a cottage industry to a thriving economy.

The records show:

True the Vote regularly reported loans to Engelbrecht, including more than $113,000 in 2019, according to a tax filing. Texas law bans nonprofits from loaning money to directors; Engelbrecht is both a director and an employee.

Companies connected to Engelbrecht and Phillips collected nearly $890,000 from True the Vote from 2014 to 2020. The largest payment — at least $750,000 — went to a new company created by Phillips, OPSEC Group LLC, to do voter analysis in 2020. It’s unclear whether OPSEC has any other clients; it has no website and no digital footprint that Reveal could trace beyond its incorporation records. The contract, which one expert called “eye-popping” for its largess, did not appear to be disclosed in the 2020 tax return the organization provided to Reveal.

True the Vote provided Bopp’s law firm a retainer of at least $500,000 to lead a legal charge against the results of the 2020 election, but he filed only four of the seven lawsuits promised to a $2.5 million donor, all of which were voluntarily dismissed less than a week after being filed. The donor later called the amount billed by Bopp’s firm “unconscionable” and “impossible.”

The organization’s tax returns are riddled with inconsistencies and have regularly been amended. Experts who reviewed the filings said it makes it difficult to understand how True the Vote is truly spending its donations.

In one instance, True the Vote produced two different versions of the same document. A copy of the 2019 tax return Engelbrecht provided to Reveal does not match the version on the IRS website.

Juanita Jean has had to deal with the tea party idiot who founded this group https://juanitajean.com/true-the-vote/

This will not be the first time, or even the third or eighth time, you have read about Cathy Engelbrecht here at the beauty salon. She’s been on our radar for ten years when she was speaking in church basements and VFW halls in the Houston area, pushing the idea that it’s too damn easy to vote. She would get the attendees name and addresses, mostly very old people, and send them requests for money. She didn’t like my questions and quickly named me “that woman” and told people I was a reporter as she rolled her eyes.

She had difficulty giving me any examples of the horror of illegal voting that she claimed was killing America. I could give her a couple of examples that happened right in her neighborhood, but they were both Republicans. She quickly informed me that she wasn’t talking about just two people, she was talking about hundreds, thousands. She just didn’t know any of them.

And then the third example hit. The Republican man she was personally supporting for county commissioner voted in two states for three elections and I had his signature to prove it. I wrote about it in the newspaper and he was defeated soundly.

I once described her as an attractive woman with a dollar sign on her forehead. She always had her hand out. She was far more concerned with raising money than illegal voting.

And now the Washington Post says she’s being sued for taking $2 million from a donor and producing the same thing I saw her produce – diddle squat.