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Pro-Trump author and conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza publicly admitted Monday that his roundly debunked film “2000 Mules” included inaccurate evidence to back up its claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.

D’Souza released a statement on his website and specifically apologized to Mark Andrews, an Atlanta-area man who sued after the film wrongly identified him as a so-called mule repeatedly dropping off ballots.

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"I owe this individual, Mark Andrews, an apology. I now understand that the surveillance videos used in the film were characterized on the basis of inaccurate information," D'Souza writes on his website.

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The core of D’Souza’s conspiracy theory, which has been widely debunked by law enforcement and the media, asserts that Democrats hired “mules” in the 2020 election to collect and repeatedly drop off ballots at the same dropbox over and over. In May, Salem Media Group, which published and distributed the film, also apologized to Andrews and retracted the film from distribution.

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D’Souza, who was pardoned by Trump in 2018 for campaign finance law violations, continues to be a prominent figure in pro-MAGA media [...]