After a not particularly-lengthy search of Los Angeles-area bookstores, NPR reporter Tom Dreisbach was able to find a copy of the print adaptation of Dinesh D’Souza’s shitty election that the staff of a Barnes and Noble did not send back to the publisher following its abrupt recall.
And, hoooo boy, as Dreisbach writes, it “does not appear to suffer from an obvious production error which might explain the delay – a misaligned photo, incorrect page numbers or blank pages,” but some bad, bad, naughty defamation stuff so ugly that D’Souzas partners in the film, MAGA activists Cathy Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of “True the Vote” wanted nothing to do with the book.
Long and very stupid story as short as possible: D’Souza, Engelbrecht, and Phillips took random GPS data from cell phones moving around the metro Atlanta area in the five weeks before the 2020 election – for which Phillips paid $2 million to obtain from a vendor – and claimed in the movie it showed repeated patterns of individual unidentified smartphones going from ballot drop boxes to unnamed Dem-aligned organizations’ offices, thus “proving” that there was a whole syndicate of illegal ballot harvesters throwing the election to Biden. Thing is they didn’t actually name these organizations in the film since – surprise! – they were afraid of getting sued for it, because God forbid D’Souza and pals might have to prove their allegations in a court of law, thus vindicating themselves and pretty much every other 2020 election conspiracy theorist out there.
Anyway the organizations are named in the book. Dreisbach doesn’t mention their names in his article, but it’s doubtful he’s the only one out there with a copy that survived the recall, so stay tuned for that and some defamation lawyers’ eyes turning into large cartoony dollar signs.
