Chuck Norris Picked A Bad Time To Embrace Bogus ‘2000 Mules’ Conspiracy Theory

There’s never a good time to embrace a bogus conspiracy theory, but Chuck Norris sure found an especially bad time to do so. He spent his Aug. 15 WorldNetDaily column gushing over admitted criminal Dinesh D’Souza and his “2000 Mules” film, which WND has heavily promoted even as it becomes increasingly discredited. Indeed, Norris himself tried to handwave the errors and gaps in the film:

Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, born in India, has produced a string of amazing documentaries. They include:

• “America: Imagine the World Without Her” (2014)
• “Hillary’s America” (the top-grossing documentary of 2016)
• “Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?” (2018)

His latest achievement is called “2000 Mules,” which was released back in May.

Critiques like the New York Times accuse “2000 Mules” of simply “repackaging … Trump’s election lies.” But that is an unfair oversimplification and accusation. Dinesh is a much greater intellectual than to produce a documentary in such regurgitating terms.

What Dinesh did in “2000 Mules” was to examine the evidence for voter fraud in the 2020 election by tracking digital device location data of “mules,” or individuals who stuffed voter drop boxes with stacks of completed ballots, especially in swing states.Before you criticize the premise as impossible, or believe someone else’s conclusions (even mine), you should watch the documentary (available online) and examine the evidence for yourself. It contains digital, telecommunication and video evidence of ballot box stuffing occurring by the same individual in multiples areas. As I’ll share in a moment, this all makes a huge difference because modern elections are now determined by drop-box and mailed ballots.

Again, though Dinesh’s liberal critics have accused him of having “too many gaps” in his evidence, I would say to them that his evidence between the alleged “gaps” is sufficient to make a case for examination. Any fraud is too much fraud, whether it was enough to sway the election or not.

While Norris was promoting this discredited film, the people whose so-called research are at the center of “2000 Mules,” Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of True the Vote, were at a heavily hyped gathering (in far-right circles, anyway) where they promised to “pull the ripcord” and share their evidence. But as the Washington Post reported:

Finally, it was time for Phillips and his colleague Catherine Engelbrecht to prove the doubters wrong. The result? The announcement of a website Open.ink, at which they promised to dump the drop-box surveillance video they obtained from states and documents from various election lawsuits.

“The ‘pulling of the ripcord’ is Open.ink,” Phillips said. There was no announcement that Open.ink would also include the cellphone geolocation data that Phillips claimed showed the existence of all of the mules in the first place. It’s hard to see what is there, since if you visit at this point, you’re quickly redirected to a sign-up sheet that asks you to create an account that must be approved before you can move forward.

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After revealing the site, the True the Vote team put a coda on that boring-old 2020 stuff.

“And that really I think is …” Engelbrecht said, looking at Phillips — her demeanor indicating uncertainty about taking the next step.

“ … the end of ‘mules,’ we’re done!” Phillips replied with affected enthusiasm.

“The end of ‘mules!’ ” Engelbrecht added. “End scene. We’re done.”

No doubt realizing that this is not what the audience expected — RSBN’s lower-third read “The Pit reveals ‘devastating news on 2020’ ” at multiple points in the program — she tried to contextualize the development.

“Honestly, guys,” she said, “ … it’s time to move on. Not to move on to what happened in 2020, because we still have to understand what happened. That is critical. We have to understand that. But we are 90 some days out from midterms” — and so on.

On top of that, Phillips got himself banned from the conference’s afterparty at a nearby hotel when he tried to bring a gun with him in violation of hotel policy.

While Norris was blissfully ignorant of the prinicipals behind “2000 Mules” abandoning their own conspiracy theory even as he was promoting it, he still insisted on spouting more bogus election fraud conspriacies:

You can believe or disbelieve in 2020 election fraud; that is your American right. However, the question is: Is it possible that it really occurred in some way, shape, or form? Whether fraud contributed to the win or loss of your favorite candidate’s election is secondary compared to whether or not any form of corruption occurred in the national election.

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Election investigation is warranted right now based simply on the fact that Joe Biden received 13 million more votes in 2020 than mega-popular Barack Obama did in 2008, when Obama set a record of votes for any presidential election before and despite Biden is the most unpopular presidential candidate and leader since the founding of our republic.

Is it plausible that the least-popular candidate in history (Biden) could beat one of the most-popular incumbent presidents (Trump) by a record-breaking 7 million votes: Biden with 81,282,916 votes compared to Trump with 74,223,369? Is it also plausible during a global pandemic that there would suddenly be an overall 7% increase in voter turnout across the country in 2020 compared to 2016?

What’s also suspect about those 7 million additional 2020 votes for Biden is the fact that the majority were received by mail. Is it a mere coincidence (or “just because of COVID”) that, for the first time in 30 years, voting by mail soared across the country while voting in person dropped off the grid? What a convenient, perfectly-timed political pandemic!

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Bottom line: Is the extensive suspicion of election fraud (held by more than 40% of Americans) really far-fetched? Are sheriffs across the country wrong for investigating voter fraud now? Absolutely not.

Gena and I thank, congratulate and commend Dinesh D’Souza in being willing to stand up for the truth, especially in the face of his own personal sacrifices and risks.

You can like or dislike Dinesh or his documentaries, or even call him jaded and a demon, but you can’t deny the core of his facts, and the right that Americans have to know the truth.

But they will not get that truth from conspiracy-mongers like Norris who put discredited narratives ahead of the facts because he refuses to accept that Trump lost re-election fair and square.