D’Souza Throws Down the Gauntlet Against Bill Barr’s Dismissive Reaction of ‘2000 Mules’

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David Rufful
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Dinesh D’Souza issued a major challenge to former Attorney General William Barr who recently laughed about the evidence and allegations presented in D’Souza’s documentary “2000 Mules.”

D’Souza’s film has publicly questioned the integrity of the 2020 general election, which caused Barr to laugh during an interview.

“My opinion then, and my opinion now, is that the election was not stolen by fraud,” Barr said. “And I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind, including the ‘2000 Mules’ movie,” he said, before he began to laugh.

When asked about D’Souza’s documentary film, Barr said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had looked into the cellphone geotracking evidence used in “2000 Mules” by the vote integrity group True the Vote.

Barr said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was “unimpressed with it,” referring to the geotracking evidence.

D’Souza responded, “I’d like to invite Bill Barr to a public debate on election fraud.”

“Given his blithe chuckling dismissal of #2000Mules this should be easy for him. What do you say, Barr?” D’Souza asked.

“Do you dare to back up your belly laughs with arguments that can withstand rebuttal and cross-examination?” he asked Barr.

D’Souza also questioned, “Is there anyone competent in cell phone geotracking who will defend what Bill Barr said?”

“He insists that random people in a busy city going past ballot dropboxes cannot be distinguished from mules who each go on routes and stop specifically at 10 or more dropboxes,” D’Souza continued. “Is this true?”

In a fact-check by The Associated Press, it claims “2000 Mules” use of True the Vote’s analysis was “flawed.”

This is based on false assumptions of how precise cellphone tracking data is. People might frequently happen to go by drop boxes for other reasons, the fact-check claims.

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D’Souza argued that mules going to 10 different drop boxes during the election cycle is very unlikely to be explained by simple coincidence.

More on this story via Western Journal:

GBI Director D. Victor Reynolds wrote in a September letter to the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party David Shafer and True the Vote’s Gregg Phillips that the cellphone data True the Vote offered “while curious, does not rise to the level of probable cause that a crime has been committed.”

Barr was more dismissive in his review.

“The cellphone data is singularly unimpressive,” he said during the deposition, as the Washington Examiner reported. “I mean, basically, if you take two million cellphones and figure out where they are in a big city like Atlanta or wherever, just by definition you are going to find that many hundreds of them have passed by and spent time in the vicinity of these boxes.”

“And the premise if you go by five boxes or whatever it was that that’s a mule is just indefensible,” Barr concluded…

The central premise of the documentary is that an illegal ballot harvesting scheme took place in the key swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin during the 2020 general election.

A “mule” is a term used in the movie for those who were allegedly paid to repeatedly pick up batches of ballots and place them in drop boxes.

On May 31, True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Phillips testified before a group Arizona Republican state senators that they used cellphone geotracking data to identify people who made 10 or more drop box stops along with five or more visits to non-governmental organizations working on voter turnout during the 2020 general election.

Engelbrecht told lawmakers True the Vote’s “mule” threshold was very high.

“We wanted to focus on a very clear, narrow data set that showed what we would consider this extreme outlier behavior, and ultimately we settled on 10 times. The devices that we focused in on went to drop boxes 10 or more times,” she said.

“And here in Arizona they went an average of 21 times,” Engelbrecht added.