Politico Timed Leak of Dobbs Decision to Kill Buzz About "2000 Mules"

Rage Over Roe v Wade Reversal Swamped All Talk of Election Fraud

There has been much in the news about how Politico, the recipient of generous funding from USAID, was used to publish the leak of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade. Until now, however, there has been nothing in the news about how precisely Politico timed this publication.

I remember the specifics well. Dinesh D’Souza’s much-anticipated film, 2000 Mules, premiered in packed theaters across America on Monday, May 2, 2022. I attended the first of two showings that night at 6 p.m. CDT. In brief, D’Souza used geo-tracking data to make the case that urban vote harvesting schemes, routine in Democratic strongholds since the days of Boss Tweed, were ratcheted up in 2020 to throw the presidential election to Joe Biden.

The film had a powerful impact. My SRO audience, like SRO audiences nationwide, gave it a standing ovation and broke out at film’s end into a spontaneous chant of “USA, USA!” Arriving home, I checked the pre-Elon Twitter first thing to see what people were saying. What I quickly discovered was that they were not saying much of anything at all.

Almost all attention was focused on a Politico “exclusive” headlined, “Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows.” Reporters Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward boasted, “No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.”

Politico published this article online at 8:32 p.m. EDT, just as those who attended the 2000 Mules screening in New York and Washington would have been checking their Twitter feeds to gauge the response. The timing was too perfect to be coincidental.

The details in the Politico article were largely confirmed when the decision in Thomas E. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was released on June 24, 2022. The premature release gave the Democrats seven additional weeks to gin up their base and plot election strategy. That strategy paid dividends as early as August 2, 2022, when Kansas voters defeated an amendment that would have taken the decision to make abortion law away from the courts and returned it to the voters.

Meanwhile the DoJ pursued the leaker of the Dobbs draft as tactically as they did the January 6 pipe bomber—a pursuit full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The media did not help. They were too busy hunting for alleged errors in 2000 Mules to join in the hunt, such as it was, for the leaker. To the surprise of no one, the leaker, like the pipe bomber, remains at large, The media had better success “debunking,” at least to their audience’s satisfaction, 2000 Mules.

Hard to believe, but in the not so distant past, the media would have actually helped the film’s producers expose voter fraud. As Democratic and media interests began to meld, however, journalists stopped seeing fraud. By 2020, they were scolding those who did see it.

A 2023 case out of Connecticut nicely illustrates the lengths to which the media will go to deny the obvious. On November 10 of that year, CNN ran a story headlined, “See the Surveillance Video Trump Allies Are Using to Sow Doubts about Voting.” The video captured illegal ballot harvesting on behalf of incumbent mayor Joe Ganim during a Democratic primary in Bridgeport. A whistleblower handed over the video to the challenger, John Gomes. As a Democrat and a racial minority, Gomes could not easily be ignored. So blatant was the fraud that a judge nullified the election.

CNN Reporter Marshall Cohen mocked GOP critics for noticing. “They have had a bonanza with it in the right-wing media,” he smirked. Cohen dismissed Trump’s claims about widespread voter fraud as “completely wrong.” He consulted with the “experts,” and the experts assured him that voter fraud is extremely rare.

Knowing its readers were not keen on learning about such mischief, the New York Times put their minds at ease with the semantic pretzel of a headline, “Election Fraud Is Rare. Except, Maybe, in Bridgeport, Conn.” Here, too, “experts” were recruited to assure readers “election fraud is rare.”

Bridgeport was an exception but, admittedly, the 2023 election was not a one-off. “Ballot manipulation has undermined elections for years,” reported Amelia Nierenberg. “Residents of the city’s low-income housing complexes described people sweeping through their apartment buildings, often pressuring them to apply for absentee ballots they were not legally entitled to.”

Nierenberg explained the phenomenon to her disbelieving audience as though it had never happened before. “Sometimes, residents say, campaigners fill out the applications or return the ballots for them—all of which is illegal.” OMG! This was the kind of granny farming Project Veritas unearthed in Minneapolis in 2020, and that the Times so grossly “debunked” that Project Veritas felt compelled to sue for libel.

In my book Untenable: The Untold Story of White Ethnic Flight from America Cities, I write of my own up-close experience watching an astonishingly corrupt mayor’s race in my hometown of Newark, New Jersey. Voter fraud is routine in urban America and just as routinely ignored by the media.

Unchastened by their spanking in the November election, the media persist in their refusal to see the obvious and report it. As of this writing, Politico is documented as having received $32 million in USAID dollars. How does CBS News headline the story of what is arguably the greatest media scandal in memory—”Trump makes misleading claims about government payments to Politico. Here's a fact check.”

They never learn.