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Attorney General William Barr laughed off the movie 2000 Mules during recorded testimony played by the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot Monday.
Barr chuckled when asked about the documentary, which had been put together by Dinesh D’Souza and other conservative activists contending that a plethora of ballot-harvesting “mules” funded by Democrats engaged in nefarious activity near election boxes on Election Day.
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“I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the 2000 Mules movie,” he said, laughing. “The premise that, you know, if you go buy a box, five boxes or whatever it was, you know that that’s a mule is just indefensible.”
The movie made a number of provocative claims, including that there was cellphone data showing evidence of the purported “mules” near drop boxes on Election Day. Barr was unimpressed and pointed to the claim about cellphone data specifically.
“The cellphone data is singularly unimpressive. If you take 2 million cellphones and figure out where they are, physically, in a big city like Atlanta or whatever, just by definition, you’re going to find many hundreds of them have passed by and spent time in the vicinity of these boxes,” he explained. “The premise that that’s a mule is indefensible.”
2000 Mules was released last month and is still playing in some theaters across the country, having earned roughly $1.5 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo. In addition to the underlying premise about election fraud being wrong, Barr also emphasized that Trump supporters also lacked evidence the supposed fraud favored him.
“The other thing is, people don’t understand is, that it’s not clear that even if you can show harvesting, that that changes the results of the election,” he added. “The courts are not going to throw out votes and then figure out what votes were harvested and throw them out. It’s still the burden on the challenging party to show that illegal votes were cast.”
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During the video of his closed-door deposition, Barr stressed he has not changed his mind on 2020 election fraud claims and had used blunt language to dismiss the claims Trump and his allies peddled, referring to fraud assertions as “bulls***,” “idiotic,” “complete nonsense,” and “detached from reality” throughout his testimony.
Barr was one of several close Trump confidants to contradict the former president’s claims about election fraud during the second public Jan. 6 hearing of the year.
