The producer of a movie claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President-elect Donald Trump has issued an official apology for "inaccurate information."
In a statement on his website, 2000 Mules producer Dinesh D'Souza apologized to a Georgia man who he accused of a "crime" as the movie showed him depositing ballots in a drop box.
"I make this apology not under the terms of a settlement agreement or other duress, but because it is the right thing to do, given what we have now learned," D'Souza wrote. "While I do not believe Mr. Andrews was ever identified by the film or book, I am sorry for any harm he believes he and his family has suffered as a result of '2000 Mules.'"
D'Souza suggested that election conspiracy theorists at the True the Vote organization were at fault for providing incorrect information about the video of Andrews.
"During the production of this film, as a supplement to the geolocation data, True the Vote provided my team with ballot drop box surveillance footage that had been obtained through open records requests. We were assured that the surveillance videos had been linked to geolocation cell phone data, such that each video depicted an individual who had made at least 10 visits to drop boxes," he explained. "We recently learned that surveillance videos used in the film may not have actually been correlated with the geolocation data."
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"I now understand that the surveillance videos used in the film were characterized on the basis of inaccurate information provided to me and my team."
Andrews has a pending defamation lawsuit against D'Souza and Salem Media Group, the film's distributor.
The Georgia secretary of state's office found that claims made by the movie were not valid in a 2022 investigation.
