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Not before time!
A man vilified by de souza and true the vote, plus all the deliberate disinformation put out there by that piece of propagandist claptrap, will see the inside of a courtroom after Judge Grimberg ruled Mark Andrews' case may go ahead. To date there has been no accountability for D’Souza or True the Vote, but "this suit might impose some penalty on the filmmaker for his false presentations."
A man vilified by de souza and true the vote, plus all the deliberate disinformation put out there by that piece of propagandist claptrap, will see the inside of a courtroom after Judge Grimberg ruled Mark Andrews' case may go ahead. To date there has been no accountability for D’Souza or True the Vote, but "this suit might impose some penalty on the filmmaker for his false presentations."
At issue is the film’s inclusion of footage showing a man named Mark Andrews depositing multiple ballots into a ballot box. This wasn’t fraud, as a state investigation determined; he was submitting ballots for himself and his family. Andrews claimed that he’d received threats as a result of the claims made in the film and in media appearances. Last year, he sued for defamation.
“Defendants asserted in multiple published statements that an image of Andrews dropping off the ballots was such an example of a mule and that Andrews had committed various crimes,” Grimberg wrote in his ruling allowing the suit to move forward. In fact, the movie was released after Andrews was cleared by Georgia authorities, but it still includes footage of Andrews submitting ballots as D’Souza calls it a crime in a voice-over.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...a4caf3a70f040cbae48c9e798ecae52&ei=62#image=1Grimberg also noted that D’Souza’s companion book — pulled from shelves at one point to remove false claims — used a still of Andrews positing ballots, which a caption described as “organized crime.” The book was published “after Andrews’s counsel informed Defendants that their portrayal of Andrews was false,” Grimberg wrote.