D’Souza’s ‘Vindicating Trump’ Explores Assassination Attempt(s)
Conservative filmmaker drops surprise doc weeks before Election Day
It’s not an election season without a word from Dinesh D’Souza.
The conservative filmmaker is back with “Vindicating Trump,” the name of both an upcoming book and documentary exploring the multi-tiered attacks on the former president.
The film’s initial press release teases answers to the following questions:
- How have character assassination attempts painted Trump as a threat to democracy, influencing public perception and legal proceedings against him?
- What constitutes political assassination in the modern era, and how has it been applied to Trump’s political career?
- Can the legal challenges Trump faces be considered a form of assassination, aiming to dismantle his political viability through the judicial system?
The film follows a similar template to “Police State,” the director’s 2023 film. “Vindicating Trump” features actor Nick Searcy in dramatic recreations underlining the points made by D’Souza. The “Capitol Punishment” producer plays a Democratic operative plotting to defeat Trump by any means necessary.
The heart of the film? It’s likely a new interview with the former president following his assassination attempt.
D’Souza’s breakthrough film, “2016: Obama’s America” earned an astonishing $33 million in 2012. Since then, he’s directed and starred in multiple docu-features including “Death of a Nation,” “Hillary’s America” and “2,000 Mules.”
The latter argued serial voting irregularities helped Joe Biden defeat Trump in 2020.
The latter proved his most controversial project to date. Salem Media Group pulled the film from distribution earlier this year following a lawsuit by a Georgia man featured in the documentary. The film wrongly accused him of ballot stuffing, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Distributed by SDG Releasing, “Vindicating Trump” will hit theaters nationwide Sept. 27.
When one hears comparisons to Hitler and terms like Trump being “an existential threat” (from the current “president” himself), should it come as any surprise that there are those who would want to assassinate him?
That said, I firmly believe there was more at work here than the derangement of a single, mentally ill person.
Republicans who believe that, if we just had a standard bearer other than Trump, The Machine would be nicer to us.
Not true. The Machine is going to call us Nazis and threats to the country no matter who our standard bearer is.
They leveled those accusations against John McCain and Mitt Romney, two of the most mild, congenial candidates the party has ever nominated.
Agree with you completely. Well said.