Dinesh D'Souza
Indian-American political commentator
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| September 27 2024 | Dinesh D'Souza released the film 'Vindicating Trump'. |
| May 31 2024 | On May 31, 2024, it was reported that Salem Media Group Inc., the publisher of D'Souza's film '2000 Mules', had apologized to a man they falsely accused of election fraud in the film and withdrawn both the film and its accompanying book from their platforms. |
| October 2023 | Dinesh D'Souza released the film 'Police State,' which was reported by The Washington Post to contain falsehoods and misleading interviews. The film alleges federal persecution of January 6 rioters and Christians, and it was screened at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence shortly after its release. |
| 2022 | Dinesh D'Souza released two books: 'Freedom Day the Asher Way' via Brave Books and '2,000 Mules: They Thought We'd Never Find Out. They Were Wrong.' through Salem Press. |
| May 2022 | In May 2022, Dinesh D'Souza released '2000 Mules', a conspiracist political film that falsely alleges that Democrat-aligned individuals were paid to illegally collect and deposit ballots during the 2020 presidential election. The film was praised by former president Donald Trump for exposing 'great election fraud'. |
| May 2021 | D'Souza posted a tweet questioning whether the January 6 Capitol attack resembled an insurrection, stating that if it didn't 'walk like a duck or talk like a duck then it probably isn't a duck.' |
| February 2021 | Following the January 6 Capitol attack, D'Souza downplayed the event, suggesting the rioters were simply 'a bunch of rowdy people walking through a hallway'. |
| 2020 | Dinesh D'Souza produced the film 'Infidel'. |
| 2020 | D'Souza released the political film Trump Card. |
| 2020 | Dinesh D'Souza published 'United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It.' through All Points Books. |
| 2018 | The claims made in D'Souza's book received media attention when they were repeated by Donald Trump Jr., leading to a 'Pants-on-Fire' rating from PolitiFact. |
| 2018 | D'Souza released the film Death of a Nation. |
| October 2018 | Following mail bombing attempts on prominent Democratic politicians, D'Souza tweeted that there were 'Fake sexual assault victims. Fake refugees. Now fake mail bombs.' He claimed that the absence of cancellation marks on the bomb-containing packages suggested they were not mailed. |
| August 1 2018 | A showing of Death of a Nation in Washington, D.C. was co-hosted by Dinesh D'Souza and Donald Trump Jr. |
| July 30 2018 | Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time? had its world premiere in Los Angeles, California. |
| May 2018 | President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Dinesh D'Souza. |
| February 2018 | D'Souza received widespread condemnation for mocking survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, claiming their grief was politically orchestrated, leading to his removal from the Conservative Political Action Conference roster. |
| November 2017 | D'Souza mocked Beverly Young Nelson, a woman who accused Roy Moore of sexual misconduct, expressing support for Moore following what he described as a smear campaign. |
| August 2017 | D'Souza tweeted that it would be 'interesting to see' George Soros 'extradited to Israel & tried for his complicity in Nazi atrocities against Jews', and referred to Soros as 'Hitler's collection boy'. |
| August 2017 | D'Souza suggested that the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally had been staged. |
| July 2017 | Dinesh D'Souza published 'The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left', where he claimed that the 2016 Democratic Party platform resembled that of the Third Reich. |
| February 2017 | In late February, students at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, stole over 200 flyers advertising Dinesh D'Souza's planned appearance at the university in the first week of March. D'Souza criticized the protest and challenged the demonstrators to debate him. |
| January 2017 | In response to John Lewis’s comments about Donald Trump not being a legitimate president, D'Souza posted that the left inflates minor figures like Lewis while downplaying major ones like Frederick Douglass. |
| January 2017 | The film 'Hillary's America' was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor for Dinesh D'Souza. In response to the nominations, D'Souza expressed that he was 'actually quite honored' and suggested that they were 'petty revenge' for Trump's election victory. |
| August 2016 | In an interview with GQ, Dinesh D'Souza denied being a conspiracy theorist, asserting that he had never advanced a conspiracy theory in his life. |
| July 25 2016 | Dinesh D'Souza released the documentary film 'Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party,' which criticizes the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee for President of the United States in 2016. |
| March 19 2016 | D'Souza married Deborah Fancher, a conservative political activist, in a ceremony officiated by Rafael Cruz near San Diego. |
| 2015 | Dinesh D'Souza released two books: 'What's So Great About America' and 'Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party', both published by Regnery Publishing and Broadside Books respectively. |
| February 2015 | D'Souza made a controversial Twitter post stating, 'You can take the boy out of the ghetto,' when criticizing Obama for using a selfie stick, which was deemed racist and led to further clarification from D'Souza. |
| 2014 | Costco initially pulled D'Souza's book 'America: Imagine the World Without Her' from its shelves, which drew criticism from conservative media and fans on social media. |
| 2014 | America: Imagine the World Without Her grossed $14.4 million, making it the highest-grossing documentary in the United States for the year. |
| September 23 2014 | The court sentenced Dinesh D'Souza to five years' probation, eight months of incarceration in a halfway house, and imposed a $30,000 fine. |
| July 4 2014 | The distribution of America: Imagine the World Without Her was expanded on the weekend of the U.S. holiday Independence Day. |
| June 27 2014 | Lions Gate Entertainment released D'Souza's film America: Imagine the World Without Her in three theaters. |
| May 20 2014 | Dinesh D'Souza pleaded guilty to one felony count of making illegal contributions in the names of others. |
| May 15 2014 | United States district judge Richard M. Berman rejected D'Souza's argument that he was singled out for prosecution, indicating that he had not provided evidence of selective prosecution. |
| January 23 2014 | Dinesh D'Souza was charged with making $20,000 in illegal campaign contributions to the New York Senate campaign of Wendy Long, along with causing false statements to be made to the Federal Election Commission. |
| November 2013 | Dinesh D'Souza faced backlash on Twitter for referring to President Obama as 'Grown-Up Trayvon' in a tweet, which he later deleted after receiving criticism. |
| March 2013 | Dinesh D'Souza announced he was working on a documentary-style film titled America: Imagine the World Without Her, which was set for release in 2014. |
| 2012 | D'Souza contributed $10,000 to the Senate campaign of Wendy Long, which was later revealed to be an illegal campaign contribution through the use of a 'straw donor'. |
| 2012 | Dinesh D'Souza co-directed and co-wrote the film '2016: Obama's America' based on his novel 'Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream'. |
| 2012 | D'Souza and Dixie Brubaker divorced. |
| 2012 | Dinesh D'Souza released two books: 'Godforsaken: Bad things happen. Is there a God who cares? YES. Here's proof' via Tyndale House and 'Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream' through Regnery Publishing. |
| 2012 | The King's College relocated to a larger space next to the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan's financial district. |
| 2012 | 2016: Obama's America grossed more than $33.4 million, making it the fifth highest-grossing documentary-style film in the United States over the last four decades. |
| October 18 2012 | Dinesh D'Souza resigned as president of The King's College following a report regarding his behavior at a Christian conference where he shared a hotel room with another woman. |
| October 17 2012 | The trustees of The King's College announced that D'Souza had resigned to attend to his personal and family needs after his alleged indiscretion became public. |
| September 2012 | 2016: Obama's America continued to expand and reached more than 2,000 theaters before the end of September 2012. |
| August 2012 | The release of 2016: Obama's America expanded to over 1,000 theaters. |
| July 13 2012 | Dinesh D'Souza's film, 2016: Obama's America, was released in limited theaters. |
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