Donald Trump fueled his commitment to voter fraud this week in a podcast chat with far-right conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza.
Trump said people voted 28 times in the 2020 election to cheat him for a second term in office. (Watch the video below.)
D’Souza directed “2,000 Mules,” the film that claims to prove vote-fraud claims, but was dismissed as “endlessly refutable” by HuffPost and other media outlets. The so-called documentary insists that Joe Biden-supporting “voting mules” have put armloads of votes into various drop boxes.
D’Souza, who pardoned the former president in 2018 after D’Souza pleaded guilty in 2014 to making an illegal donation to a GOP senate candidate, asked Trump: “It seems to me that what you are saying is that you think there is was cheating in all the different ways. ‘2,000 mules’ may have captured one of the ways, but there were other forms of cheating going on too, is that right?”
“Yes, ‘2,000 mules’ was a one-way street,” Trump replied. “That was a very convincing way because you were taking government tapes. … And then, of course, they voted six, seven, eight times. As much as they could in the area. Some people went back, I think they said 28 times in one day, to vote in different places.”
Trump did not say where he got the figure from. An executive producer of “2,000 Mules” claimed on Fox News earlier this year, the average number of visits from said mules was 38.
Trump claimed the voters hadn’t exaggerated because that would have been detectable. “They’re very smart,” Trump said.
Trump continues to promote his election lies as he teases his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election. A poll last month showed Republicans’ loyalty to him was on the wane.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
