Since Donald Trump left office in January 2021, there has been no more influential presentation of his theory that the election was stolen than the film “2000 Mules,” created by activist — and Trump pardon recipient — Dinesh D’Souza.
D’Souza’s movie was a masterpiece of meeting market demand. There was a nationwide scramble by red-hat-wearing enthusiasts to prove that Joe Biden cheated his way into the White House, a rush for evidence that made mini-celebrities of people like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. And into this bedlam strode D’Souza. He held in his hand data cobbled together by a right-wing activist group called True the Vote that he claimed showed thousands of people collecting and submitting fraudulent ballots in swing states.
