Editing Dinesh D'Souza (section)

===Promotion of conspiracy theories===
D'Souza has promoted several [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]], such as the false claim that [[Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Obama was not born in the United States]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Seipel|first=Brooke|date=2018-05-31|title=President Trump pardons Dinesh D'Souza|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390029-trump-to-pardon-dinesh-dsouza/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=[[The Hill (magazine)|The Hill]]|language=en|quote=Like Arpaio and Trump, D'Souza promoted the unfounded conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was ineligible to serve as president because he was born outside the U.S.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180601143931/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390029-trump-to-pardon-dinesh-dsouza |archive-date=June 1, 2018 }}</ref><ref name=":10" /> and the conspiracy theory that [[Clinton body count conspiracy theory|the Clintons had murdered people]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tani|first=Maxwell|date=November 6, 2017|title=Donald Trump Jr. revives conspiracy theory about Clintons amid Donna Brazile controversy|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-2017-11|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=[[Business Insider]]|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106012712/http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-2017-11 |archive-date=November 6, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Weber|first=Peter|date=August 12, 2019|title=Dinesh D'Souza tried to use his time behind bars to bolster Epstein conspiracy theory, failed|url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/858426/dinesh-dsouza-tried-use-time-behind-bars-bolster-epstein-conspiracy-theory-failed|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=[[The Week]]|language=en|quote=Over the weekend, D'Souza tried to leverage his eight months in a federal correctional center to lend authority to the bizarre, evidently Trump-endorsed conspiracy theory that the Clintons might be responsible for Jeffrey Epstein's suicide.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812075658/https://theweek.com/speedreads/858426/dinesh-dsouza-tried-use-time-behind-bars-bolster-epstein-conspiracy-theory-failed |archive-date=August 12, 2019 }}</ref> D'Souza has also promoted false claims about businessman and philanthropist [[George Soros]], including that Soros had collaborated with the Nazis as a youth, and that he has sponsored [[Antifa (United States)|antifa]], a left-wing [[Anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] movement.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pink|first=Aiden|date=October 31, 2018|title=4 Times Dinesh D'Souza Should Have Kept Quiet About The Jews|url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/402155/4-times-dinesh-dsouza-should-have-kept-quiet-about-the-jews/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=[[The Forward]]|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204110615/https://forward.com/fast-forward/402155/4-times-dinesh-dsouza-should-have-kept-quiet-about-the-jews/ |archive-date=December 4, 2018 }}</ref> In an August 2016 interview with ''[[GQ]]'', D'Souza denied being a conspiracy theorist, stating: "I have never advanced a conspiracy theory in my life."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-08-22|title=Dinesh D'Souza on His Batshit Hillary Doc, Donald Trump, and Why He Doesn't Think He's a Conspiracy Theorist|url=https://www.gq.com/story/dinesh-dsouza-hillarys-america-interview|access-date=2021-08-01|website=GQ|language=en-US|archive-date=September 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922195648/https://www.gq.com/story/dinesh-dsouza-hillarys-america-interview|url-status=live}}</ref>

In August 2017, D'Souza suggested that the [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]] [[Unite the Right rally]] had been [[False flag|staged]].<ref name="NYT20180531">{{Cite news|last=Victor|first=Daniel|date=2018-05-31|title=A Look at Dinesh D'Souza, Pardoned by Trump|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/dinesh-dsouza-facts-history.html|access-date=2021-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726165410/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/dinesh-dsouza-facts-history.html|archive-date=July 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In the same month, D'Souza tweeted that it would be "interesting to see" Soros "extradited to [[Israel]] & tried for his complicity in Nazi atrocities against Jews", and referred to Soros as "[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s collection boy".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Alterman|first=Eric|date=2017-09-07|title=Soros Slander Reveals Anti-Semitism at the Heart of the Far Right|language=en-US|work=[[The Nation]]|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/soros-slander-reveals-anti-semitism-at-the-heart-of-the-far-right/|access-date=2021-08-01|issn=0027-8378|archive-date=August 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801085417/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/soros-slander-reveals-anti-semitism-at-the-heart-of-the-far-right/|url-status=live}}</ref>

After [[October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts|mail bombing attempts on prominent Democratic politicians]] occurred in October 2018, D'Souza tweeted: "Fake sexual assault victims. Fake refugees. Now fake mail bombs." D'Souza argued that the lack of a cancellation mark on the bomb-containing packages was evidence they were not mailed.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Andrew|first1=Egger|date=26 October 2018|title=Flight of the #FalseFlag Conservatives|language=en|work=[[The Weekly Standard]]|url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-egger/the-arrest-of-bomber-cesar-sayoc-and-the-false-flag-conservatives|access-date=27 October 2018|archive-date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027030119/https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-egger/the-arrest-of-bomber-cesar-sayoc-and-the-false-flag-conservatives}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Shane|first1=Croucher|date=25 October 2018|title=Pro-Trump conservatives are peddling a false flag conspiracy about the mail bombs|language=en|work=[[Newsweek]]|url=https://www.newsweek.com/mail-bombs-are-false-flag-distract-hordes-illegal-aliens-claim-conservative-1186730|access-date=27 October 2018|archive-date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027185724/https://www.newsweek.com/mail-bombs-are-false-flag-distract-hordes-illegal-aliens-claim-conservative-1186730|url-status=live}}</ref>