Eight Arizona Republican officials held a meeting with about 200 others to hear a presentation from producers Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht weeks after the film's release. Phillips called the press "journalistic terrorists" for demonstrating the film's lack of proof. Asked if he had turned over evidence to law enforcement, Phillips said he had given data to the Arizona Attorney General's office a year earlier; however, the AG's office said they never received it.
The film's premise has been refuted.
The director is a convicted felon.
Texas-based conservative group True the Vote, on which the film relies as a source for its charges, filed complaints with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2021. The state of Georgia's Election Board eventually subpoenaed True the Vote's records of the ballot stuffing the documentary asserted occurred in 2020. Georgia eventually went to court to try and obtain the evidence. In February of 2024, True the Vote's attorneys told the Georgia judge, when requested to provide their evidence of ballot stuffing, that "TTV has no such documents in its possession, custody, or control."
The Salem Media Group, which co-produced the film, apologized to a Georgia man who was falsely depicted as having committed election fraud. The film features surveillance video of Mark Andrews as he places ballots into a drop box near Atlanta, with voice-over commentary by Mr. D'Souza calling the action "a crime" and adding, "These are fraudulent votes." "It was never our intent that the publication of the '2,000 Mules' film and book would harm Mr. Andrews," Salem said in a statement. It said that it had removed the film from its platforms, and would no longer distribute it.