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So now he apologizes  -  now that his hero got elected.  

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dinesh-dsouza-apologizes-false-claims-150554547.html

Far-right provocateur and pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza has issued an apology over false accusations he made in his 2022 election conspiracy theory movie 2000 Mules, acknowledging that his claims about illegal “ballot trafficking” during the 2020 presidential election were misleading and inaccurate.

In a lengthy statement posted to his website on Sunday, D’Souza said that his movie — which asserts that “mules” were paid to fraudulently deposit harvested ballots in swing states — had relied on “cell phone geolocation data” provided by conservative non-profit group True the Vote. That data, D’Souza noted, had turned out to be false.

“We were assured that the surveillance videos had been linked to geolocation cell phone data, such that each video depicted an individual who had made at least 10 visits to drop boxes. Indeed, it is clear from the interviews within the film itself that True the Vote was correlating the videos to geolocation data,” he wrote. “We recently learned that surveillance videos used in the film may not have actually been correlated with the geolocation data.”


 


Adding that his movie and companion book created the “impression that these individuals were mules that had been identified as suspected ballot harvesters” based on True the Vote’s cell phone data, D’Souza conceded that these people were wrongfully accused of misconduct.

 
TGHusker said:
So now he apologizes  -  now that his hero got elected.  

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dinesh-dsouza-apologizes-false-claims-150554547.html

Far-right provocateur and pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza has issued an apology over false accusations he made in his 2022 election conspiracy theory movie 2000 Mules, acknowledging that his claims about illegal “ballot trafficking” during the 2020 presidential election were misleading and inaccurate.

In a lengthy statement posted to his website on Sunday, D’Souza said that his movie — which asserts that “mules” were paid to fraudulently deposit harvested ballots in swing states — had relied on “cell phone geolocation data” provided by conservative non-profit group True the Vote. That data, D’Souza noted, had turned out to be false.

“We were assured that the surveillance videos had been linked to geolocation cell phone data, such that each video depicted an individual who had made at least 10 visits to drop boxes. Indeed, it is clear from the interviews within the film itself that True the Vote was correlating the videos to geolocation data,” he wrote. “We recently learned that surveillance videos used in the film may not have actually been correlated with the geolocation data.”


 


Adding that his movie and companion book created the “impression that these individuals were mules that had been identified as suspected ballot harvesters” based on True the Vote’s cell phone data, D’Souza conceded that these people were wrongfully accused of misconduct.
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This "apology" won't be seen by anyone who needs to see it.  And even if they do, they will still insist what they saw in the movie is accurate.  "Trump Delusion Syndrome" has millions of folks so f'd in the head it's sickening and terrifying. 

 
funhusker said:
Nobody really disputes this.  It's why I laugh at folks who think current day Republican beliefs would have freed the slaves.
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I think you, me and Apsu are assuming the "decades ago" comment referred to Richard Nixon's 1968 Southern Strategy, which flipped traditional Southern Democrats who abandoned their economic interests to join the Republicans who opposed civil rights and other socially liberal positions. 

I think the cartoonist is imagining the birth of Fox News, which I guess was decades ago, too.

 
JJ Husker said:
Well that’s just strange from an administration that is always so honest, transparent and credible 🤥
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On Reddit yesterday I saw some discussion how Silicon Valley now is pretty solidly behind Trump after previously being a D fundraising stronghold.  Most of them either actively cheer what is happening (e.g., Peter Thiel being Vance's puppet master) or are scared to make Trump angry and target them.

Going to be interesting to see the downstream effects of them going this route since so many people get their news from social media now. Can't imagine it will bear good things.

 
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