Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) is calling for hearings into the 2020 election fraud allegations made in the documentary film 2000 Mules.
In a letter to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Biggs called the provocative claims made in the film “extremely troubling” and said they “must be investigated.”
“The Committee on Oversight and Reform should immediately hold hearings to investigate the potential illegal activities revealed in the documentary film 2000 Mules,” Biggs wrote in the letter.
NEWS: Andy Biggs is circulating a letter calling for hearings into debunked election fraud allegations featured in “2000 Mules” — the same day that 1/6 committee revealed how Trump’s election lies incited a mob to attack the Capitol.
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The letter was co-signed by Reps. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Mary Miller (R-IL), Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), Randy Weber (R-TX), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Dan Bishop (R-NC), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), and Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
Biggs’s congressional office told the Washington Examiner that the letter was delivered to Maloney on Wednesday.
The documentary, put together by conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza and other conservative activists, contended that ballot-harvesting “mules” funded by Democrats engaged in nefarious activity near election boxes on Election Day in 2020.
“The information revealed in the film is extremely troubling and must be investigated,” Biggs added in the letter, noting that ballot-harvesting purportedly documented in the film is illegal in several states.
“Under your leadership, the Committee has held hearings on the Arizona election audit and Texas’ voting laws. The Committee has also devoted significant time and resources on hearings and investigations into issues such as flea and tick collars, the Washington Commanders football team, electric vehicles for the Postal Service, environmental justice, and vaping among other topics,” the letter continued. “The illegal activity exposed in the documentary 2000 Mules is far more serious than the aforementioned topics and must be investigated by the Committee.”
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The film, released online on May 6, grossed more than $1 million in its first 12 hours of streaming and more than $750,000 in its first theatrical release weekend. According to a Rasmussen Reports survey, 77% of viewers found the movie convincing, saying that it “strengthened their conviction that there was systematic and widespread election fraud in the 2020 election.”
One person not convinced by the film is former Trump administration Attorney General Bill Barr, who told the House Jan. 6 committee in June he hasn’t “seen anything since the election that changes my mind” on election fraud claims, “including the 2000 Mules movie.”
