Leaders of True The Vote lashed out at investigators after the right-wing “election integrity” group failed to provide additional evidence to prove its claims of voter fraud in Georgia, appearing in MAGA media to suggest that authorities want whistleblower information "so that they can either kill them or make their lives miserable.”
Upon its May 2022 release, 2000 Mules, a movie by right-wing fraudster and Trump pardon recipient Dinesh D’Souza, was widely celebrated among right-wing media. The supposed documentary prominently featured data from True The Vote, a nonprofit founded by longtime election fraud “activist” Catherine Engelbrecht, to allege that thousands of operatives in key swing states strategically stuffed ballot boxes with illegal votes for President Joe Biden.
The movie’s claims were facially false and widely debunked, prompting a defamation lawsuit, but conservative media heavily promoted D’Souza and True The Vote’s work nonetheless. And much like the recent demolition of another piece of viral 2020 misinformation, True The Vote recently admitted to a Georgia judge that it had no further evidence to share with state investigators, who have looked into the allegations for years and found nothing.
However, among more comfortable right-wing media surroundings, True The Vote argues that, actually, the authorities are playing “cat-and-mouse” games, and its leader says the group has already handed over “everything that is needed.”
“They’re asking us for identities and contact information, and that’s simply not what happens in geospatial analysis,” Engelbrecht complained on Steve Bannon’s War Room, saying that not having this information “doesn’t mean that we don’t have evidence, it means that we don’t have what they’re asking for.”
“We have provided time and time and time again everything that is needed to conduct an investigation,” she insisted. The court statement and subsequent media coverage “is a cat-and-mouse that just continues on, and they pull it out whenever it’s convenient,” Engelbrecht protested, alleging these headlines were created to protect Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from misconduct allegations as she prosecutes former President Donald Trump for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
True The Vote’s claims of fraud are “just true,” barked Engelbrecht’s business partner, Gregg Phillips. “They can piss and moan and whine all they want, but every single time they bring this up we slug them in the mouth with the truth.”
“It’s just insanity,” he said, attacking Georgia investigators. “Who knows what’s going to happen next time? These people are absolute trash.”
“They want the whistleblowers’ names,” Phillips alleged, “so that they can either kill them or make their lives miserable.”