Thread by @LorenCollins

As many have noted, Dinesh D’Souza’s #2000Mules claims that “mules” visited dozens of drop boxes each, but offers no video of even a single person at more than one drop box.

But they not only claim to possess such video, but that it’s IN THE TRAILER.

So let’s check it out.

First, it is in a recent FAQ on their website that True the Vote says that video of the same person at multiple drop boxes appears in the film’s first trailer, acknowledging that the video is “extremely poor quality.”

That’s an understatement.

truethevote.org/ttv-2000mules-…

D’Souza dropped the first teaser trailer back on January 29.

At the 42 second mark, D’Souza’s voiceover says “This one mule made 53 trips to 20 drop boxes.” As he says this, a series of three drop box surveillance videos play underneath.

rumble.com/vtlq96-explosi…

The first video clip is, I believe, from the lobby of the Alpharetta Library in Fulton County.

It shows a drop box, but no one at it. There appears to be a person obscured at the right of the frame, but it’s not clear the person is voting, and identification is impossible.

This is the only of the three clips in this montage to not appear in the film.

This lobby drop box does, however, briefly appear in the film. Remember, this is inside an open library. And this is how that footage looks in the film:

There are two usages of this camera in this 30-video array, both of which are lit like the above. The one in the top row does have a person enter the frame, but if it’s the same as the obscured person above, the clips don’t overlap.

https://twitter.com/pootdibou/status/1528174043865702400

The second clip is not only featured in the film, but it’s given the full-screen treatment. This is at the Joan P. Garner Library at Ponce de Leon, also in Fulton County.

In the film, this footage is actually adjacent to the footage of the man depositing his family’s ballots, whose complaint was dismissed by the GA Election Board.

In the trailer, it’s been cropped, and what was only suspected before is now certain: they’re darkening the footage.

https://twitter.com/pootdibou/status/1528159174017810433

On the left, the footage as it appears in the teaser. As Dinesh says “This one mule made 53 trips to 20 drop boxes.”

On the right, the same footage as it appears in the film.

Finally, as D’Souza continues speaking, we’re shown this third and final clip of the man who allegedly “made 53 visits to 20 drop boxes.” This is at the Auburn Avenue Research Library in Fulton County.

This video is also featured in the film, but not as prominently. It is only given the quarter-screen treatment, where it is shown directly below footage of what appears to be a Gwinnett County elections worker.

https://twitter.com/pootdibou/status/1528173416469217280?s=21&t=HGhgKZpo6lDY5VtDH-ZHFg

https://twitter.com/PootDibou/status/1528173416469217280

As with the previous video, the trailer darkens the footage.

On the left, the footage as it appears in the teaser. As Dinesh says “This one mule made 53 trips to 20 drop boxes.”

On the right, the same footage as it appears in the film.

So True the Vote says “We do have video showing the same person at multiple drop boxes” and that “Some of that footage was shown in the first trailer.”

But not only is it impossible to tell if it’s the same person in all the videos, one video *doesn’t even show a person voting*.

Granted, True the Vote acknowledges the video quality is not great, but when that footage was presented in the trailer, what did they do?

They chose to intentionally make the video quality WORSE.

In darkening the footage, they not only obscured all the available visual detail, but they gave all the clips a sinister sheen, falsely suggesting they were all taking place under shadow of night.

The trailer’s excuse for this would of course be artistic license, but that then suggests why it’s not in the film:

Because minus the harsh color grading, there’s *absolutely nothing* to tie these disparate clips together. There’s no reason to believe this is the same man.

Moreover, if this man truly “made 53 visits to 20 drop boxes,” how is THIS the best footage they have of him? They obviously have a lot of Fulton County footage, much of which is from better angles, and they still chose a shot with no one even clearly visible in-frame?

So when @DineshDSouza says “I am going to release video of the same mule at more than one dropbox,” this is almost certainly what we can look forward to. Poor footage, chosen precisely b/c it allows the unskeptical to squint and say “Yeah, I *guess* that could be the same guy.”

https://twitter.com/lorencollins/status/1528167540056260609

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True the Vote claims to have footage of “mules” at multiple drop boxes. And THIS is the only example of such video they point to as having shared.

So if THIS is the most compelling video they have, you can only imagine how utterly uncompelling the video they’re NOT sharing is.