WND’s Farah Goes All In On Discredited ‘2000 Mules’ Film

We’ve shown how WorldNetDaily unsurprisingly embraced Dinesh D’Souza’s dubious election-conspiracy film “2000 Mules.” Chief among the film’s cheerleaders, though, has been editor Joseph Farah. He spent his April 19 column rehashing his favorite election conspiracies, then rehashing Moore’s puffery in touting how this was all going to be proven in the film:

An 18-month, data-driven probe now concludes the 2020 election was stolen.

Smartphone pings and video reveal at least 4.8 million fraudulent votes – far more than what Trump needed to win a clear electoral victory.

It’s all detailed in a film coming out now that may just save the day.

Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote and Gregg Phillips of a health-care data company have teamed up with a dozen people who have put in 16-hour days for 15 months, combing tediously through cellphone geolocation data, surveillance videos and documents to see if the evidence supports their hypothesis.

What is that hypothesis? That amid the many “dirty,” out-of-date voter rolls and the unprecedented distribution of mail-in ballots, a highly coordinated operation in the key battleground states collected ballots and paid “mules” to literally stuff them in the unattended drop boxes. The researchers found the smoking gun.

They say they have the hard evidence to back their finding that there were enough fraudulent votes in the states they targeted – including Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia – to overturn the election.

After the firm was released, Farah hyped it again in his May 6 column:

With the release of the film “2000 Mules,” the overwhelmingly evidence, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the 2000 election was stolen, rigged and covered up becomes clear for all to see.

There were countless acts of “insurrection” involved. Democrats were successful at committing treason. It was a coup d’état. It was an outright act of rebellion, a successful revolution, an overthrow not just of a democratic election but a coordinated effort to defraud even the Founding Fathers of this great country.

What a betrayal of those Democrats’ oaths of office – and the pledge of allegiance, the Constitution! What chutzpa! But still they lie, they cheat, they defame – they’ll never come clean! They will never stop. 

There’s a scene in the movie that suggests, “If you believe you are fighting Hitler, do you shy away from doing anything to challenge an election?”

That explains their motivation. They believed that. How many of them have said it openly? How many of the them said it under their breath?

It’s time to come to our senses. Real Americans do not share anything in common with the people who committed this outrage – and covered it up! Not only did they do that, but they ACCUSED US OF WHAT THEY HAD DONE!

They claimed we were “insurrectionists”! Or maybe you don’t know for sure that fraud was committed – you only suspect it. If you see this movie, you will KNOW. And God help you then. I almost wish I didn’t know. I almost wish I had kept my innocence. 

Farah then forwarded the baseless conspiracy theory that a draft opinion from the Supreme  Court that would over Roe v. Wade was leaked in an effort to suppress the film:

The Supreme Court was preparing to announce the decision in a month. Who leaked it? Why?

Maybe someone doesn’t want you to know about this movie – “2000 Mules.”

Can you think of any reason?

The Democrat machine is dirty, disgusting, defiled. They control most of the corporate world in America, most of the media, all of Big Tech. But they don’t control YOU!

Farah started to get worried that D’Souza’s film was getting ignored (even as his WND was downplaying the factual errors), so his May 12 column touting the film sounded a little desperate:

Have you seen “2000 Mules”?

I’m curious, because I’m disappointed that it’s not making the kind of waves I expected.

Did we wait too long to definitively know the election of 2020 was actually fraudulent?

Are people just so stunned by the documentary’s conclusions?

Is there just too much else going on?

Is Big Tech doing a job on it?

Do Americans even know there is a movie out that makes the case that we were robbed in 2020?

Or was it that the draft Supreme Court decision regarding Roe v. Wade was leaked at the same time as the film’s release?

That’s a lot of questions for you.

Then there’s the virtual blackout by Fox News, the lack of commercials for it, not to mention no media coverage.

Am I mistaken, or is this film, as convincing as it is that Donald Trump was right about everything, not getting credit for the biggest story ever told – bigger than Watergate, bigger than the Hunter Biden tape from hell, bigger than all that has happened to us because of the Democrats’ massive cheating scandal?

Or is it that we are more subject than most of us realize to manipulation? Or are just too stunned by its revelations? I really don’t know. I’m anxious to find out.

The only person we see who has been subject to manipulation is Farah. He is still clinging to Trump’s Big Lie, which should raise a huge red flag for anyone who might be thinking about considering WND to be a legitimate news organization that cares about facts. 

As is so happened, Farah spent his May 15 column announcing his continued fealty to the Big Lie, whining that other right-wing outlets aren’t touching the film (bolding in original):

But are ready for the shocker?

How about Fox News? Not even a mention!

How about Newsmax? Not even a mention!

Only the truly independent press is telling the truth about this movie – WND, Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show and the Real America Network. You’ve diligently got to search for outlets that carry news about this movie.

Do you believe it?

Believe it!

Nothing from Fox News. Nothing from Newsmax. They haven’t even uttered that name of the movie!

You might recall that Fox was the first network to call the race for Joe Biden in Arizona early on election night against President Donald Trump. That is one of five battlefield states that “2000 Mules” figures were won easily through blatant voter fraud against Trump. They didn’t need a thorough review of the vote – they had all they needed to prove Trump won. It was stolen. He won the Electoral College in all five states.

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Every day we feel more suppression, repression and tyranny in America. Most of it deals with the 2020 election results. It was a turning point. It certainly was for Trump!

We are quickly losing America’s freedom – big time!

Farah’s tone got desperate again in his May 23 column:

Are our elections hopelessly broken?

All you have to do to answer the question is see the movie “2000 Mules,” produced by Dinesh D’Souza. It doesn’t tell the whole story. It just presents a clear picture, one undeniable, seeing-is-believing American nightmare that portrays fraud on a massive scale that cannot be ignored.

Time is running short. Nothing is more important, hyper-critical to our very way of life than coming to grips with election fraud right now.

Not watching “2000 Mules” is not an option for any American. It will only keep you in the dark. It presents the stark reality of how we were all cheated in 2020 – swindled, chiseled, deceived, defrauded, duped, scammed and hoaxed.

The election was stolen. And there’s no denying it, refuting it, or discrediting it. What the film reveals is the truth – not the whole story but enough to change the basic narrative and the winner of the 2020 presidential race.

Well, you might ask, what’s preventing accountability for the steal?

Fear – on all sides. Disinformation. Lies.

It’s ruining this country. It’s threatening to take it down.

Rather than admitting his and WND’s role in spreading fear, disinformation and lies — or even report on the disinformation and lies in D’Souza’s film — Farah decided to create a new enemy in a Democratic lawyer, Mark Elias, because he “admitted hiring Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump, and that was the company that then hired Christopher Steele to create the now-discredited Steele dossier of false claims about President Trump.”

Farah’s May 30 column was a tirade against Fox News in general and correspondent Sandra Smith im particular for an interview with Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, who got slapped down by Smith for bringing up D’Souza’s film:

Smith said it has been debunked by Reuters – by REUTERS! And for that Fox has never uttered the film’s name.

Yet Brooks was not finished.

“I’m sorry, but other fact checkers are looking at it and find you’re absolutely wrong, Sandra.”

She’s dead wrong.

Sandra Smith is a disgrace.

I will not watch her ever again – at least not until she apologizes for her behavior on the election of 2020.

As for Mo Brooks, he was great. It was one of the best interviews I’ve seen on TV lately.

He disagrees with President Trump, yet he remains passionate that the election was stolen.

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It’s not too late to see “2000 Mules.”

It’s a must.

And it will prevail.

Despite what Smith said about it:

“That has been looked at and fact-checked by multiple outlets, including Reuters, who have debunked that as any sort of proof that there was widespread voter fraud.”

Fact checkers, please!

Fox News are CENSORS!

But Farah did not link to the Reuters fact-check he was attacking (for merely existing; at no point did Farah make an attempt to rebut anything in it), meaning that he’s acting as a censor too. 

Farah and WND have served up nothing regarding D’Souza’s film except rah-rah promotion (making one wonder if D’Souza is paying WND for all this great press) and incessant, stenographical shouting that the film is true without proving it or actually debunking any of the criticism. It seems that a “news” organization on the brink of collapse should be working to boost its journalistic credibility, not being a PR agent for a discredited film.