The Right Can't Stop Talking About A Conspiracy Theory Movie -- And It's Roiling The Midterms

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Really important piece on the influence of the bunk doc 2000 Mules on the GOP heading into midterms - from our great new reporter here at HuffPost, @mattshuham

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The Right Can’t Stop Talking About A Conspiracy Theory Movie — And It’s Roiling The Midterms
The movie has inspired groups across the country to hold stakeouts at drop boxes and to mobilize again around Donald Trump’s election lies.
1:08 PM · Oct 10, 2022

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/2000-mules-radicalized-2022-midterm-elections_n_63444e4ae4b0b7f89f4e8934

In a key scene in this year’s biggest conspiracy theory film, “2000 Mules,” tense music plays as surveillance footage shows the exterior of the Gwinnett County elections office in Lawrenceville, Georgia. A man in sweatpants and a hoodie, face blurred, exits a white Ford SUV and, one by one, deposits five ballots into a drop box on the building’s exterior, before flashing a thumbs up to a line of waiting voters and leaving the scene.

“What you are seeing is a crime,” says Dinesh D’Souza, the film’s director and narrator. “These are fraudulent votes.”

Except, according to Georgia authorities, the votes were completely legal. The faceless villain, one of several shown in the surveillance footage featured in “2000 Mules,” was just a normal dad. After matching his license plate to an address, investigators interviewed the man and confirmed that he was dropping off his wife and kids’ ballots, which is legal in Georgia.

At a May meeting of the Georgia State Elections Board, Republican Ed Lindsey said the case was a “cautionary tale” and urged Americans to allow for investigation before jumping to conclusions.

The opposite happened.

By the time the elections board dismissed the case of the white SUV, video of the man and his family’s ballots had been featured on Fox News, as Tucker Carlson interviewed one of the movie’s stars and executive producers, Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the Texas-based group True the Vote, a conspiracy-theory-driven right-wing group that works to ferret out supposed voter fraud.

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[tulipsandroses]

1. I hope that man is suing. That may be the only way to get them to stop

some of this madness.

[Blue Owl]

2. 2,000 Stools: A Day in the Life of tRump's Golden Toilet

[WarGamer]

3. it's been thoroughly 100% debunked...