Dinesh D'Souza excuses voter intimidation, tells audience if they see voters they believe are “mules” to film them and “post it on social media”
D'Souza: “These are public acts that are occurring in public space so there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy”
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From the November 7, 2022 edition of The Dinesh D'Souza show, posted to YouTube
DINESH D’SOUZA (HOST): The Biden DHS, now the DHS is the Department of Homeland Security, continues to put out these warnings and bulletins and I see them in the media to block what they claim are election threats.
Now, of course in the past they claimed that there was all kinds of foreign intervention in the election and of course primarily from Russia. Now, quite frankly, I’ve never seen evidence any foreign intervention to a degree that would seem to affect the election. And we know going back to 2016 that all the claims about Russian collusion with Trump – all nonsense. When you look at the actual evidence, even in the news stories, even in the Russian intervention, not counting Trump, it would be like well the Russians have bought like $35,000 worth of ads in Facebook and I’m thinking really? Was this really even worth bringing up? This is hardly likely to have any impact on anything.
But now the DHS claims that the threats to election security come domestically and they come from who? Well they come from us, they come from what they call domestic extremists and while some of this is couched in the language of violence, a lot of it is not. They’re worried about election quote, lies. Well, who gets to decide if something is a lie? I guess they do. Election misinformation – who gets to decide if something is misinformation? I guess they do. And voter intimidation. Well, what do they mean exactly by intimidation?
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What’s happening here is we’re getting claims of a national problem that is – does not seem to be a national problem, or to put it differently, there is not one iota of evidence that there is a national problem.
And this observation of ballot boxes business, while the Biden administration seems to take the view you’re not allowed to watch the boxes, you’re not allowed to record voters approaching the boxes, a judge in Arizona has taken I think a very sensible position on this and essentially what the judge said is you are allowed to watch the drop boxes. You are allowed to record what happens at the drop boxes it’s just that A, you’ve got to do it from a safe distance, B, you should not interfere with voters in any way. And I think this is completely reasonable.
We don’t want to have any confrontations with voters. If you see anything that seems inappropriate, untoward, shenanigans, mules, you know what, turn on your trusty iPhone, send in the information to the election authorities and you know what? Post it on social media because again, these are public acts that are occurring in public space so there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy.
By the way, look, we live in an age where there’s surveillance on malls and parking lots so people cannot say hey, I’m going out to vote at city hall, hey I’m going to vote at this drop box that’s sitting on public property and somehow I’m intimidated if someone is taking a picture or I’m intimidated if there’s an installed electronic camera that’s recording what I’m doing. The purpose of the camera is to make sure you don’t do anything that is illegal and that you exercise your vote in a lawful way.