61 Facts About Dinesh D'Souza

Dinesh Joseph D'Souza is an American right-wing political commentator, conspiracy theorist, author, and filmmaker.

Dinesh D'Souza has made several financially successful films, and written over a dozen books, several of them New York Times best-sellers.

Dinesh D'Souza was a policy adviser in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and has been affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution.

In 2012, Dinesh D'Souza released the conspiracist political film 2016: Obama's America, an anti-Barack Obama polemic based on his 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage.

Dinesh D'Souza has since released five other conspiracist films: America: Imagine the World Without Her, Hillary's America, Death of a Nation, Trump Card and 2000 Mules.

In 2014, Dinesh D'Souza pleaded guilty in federal court to one felony charge of using a "straw donor" to make an illegal campaign contribution.

Dinesh D'Souza was sentenced to eight months incarceration in a halfway house near his home in San Diego, five years' probation, and a $30,000 fine.

In 2018, Dinesh D'Souza was issued a pardon by President Donald Trump.

Dinesh Joseph D'Souza was born in Bombay, India in 1961.

Dinesh D'Souza attended the Jesuit St Stanislaus High School in Bombay.

Dinesh D'Souza graduated from high school in 1976 and attended Sydenham College in Bombay for year 11 and 12.

In 1978, Dinesh D'Souza became a foreign-exchange student and traveled to the United States under the Rotary Youth Exchange, attending Patagonia Union High School in Patagonia, Arizona.

Dinesh D'Souza went on to matriculate at Dartmouth College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1983 and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Dinesh D'Souza oversaw The Review's publication of "a light-hearted interview" with a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan over a staged photograph of a black person hanged from a tree, as well as a piece mocking affirmative action in higher education that written from the point of view of a black student and phrased in Ebonics.

Between 1987 and 1988, Dinesh D'Souza was a policy adviser in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Dinesh D'Souza has been affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Dinesh D'Souza renounced Indian citizenship, as India's nationality law does not recognize dual citizenship.

In 1995, Dinesh D'Souza published The End of Racism, in which he claimed that exaggerated claims of racism are holding back progress among African Americans in the United States.

Some observers, such as Baltimore Sun writer Gregory Kane noted that Dinesh D'Souza's book bore many similarities to Taylor's 1992 work Paved with Good Intentions, despite Dinesh D'Souza accusing Taylor of racism.

Many right-wing critics, such as Lawrence Auster, believed that Dinesh D'Souza was attacking Francis and others to protect himself from accusations of racism.

Dinesh D'Souza argues that Muslims do not hate America because of its freedom and democracy, but because they perceive America to be imposing its moral depravity on the world.

All in all, Dinesh D'Souza's article reads like a bad conspiracy theory.

Dinesh D'Souza wrote the book America: Imagine the World Without Her on which his 2014 film of the same name is based.

Dinesh D'Souza disputed the explanation, saying the book had only been out a few weeks and had surged to No 1 on Amazon.

In July 2017, Dinesh D'Souza published The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left.

Dinesh D'Souza has written and directed a number of conspiracist political films.

Dinesh D'Souza wrote and co-directed the documentary-style polemical film 2016: Obama's America.

Dinesh D'Souza suggested that early influences on Obama affected the decisions he made as president.

Later, when Dinesh D'Souza was indicted for violating election law, Dinesh D'Souza and his co-producers alleged that he was selectively prosecuted, and that the indictment was politically motivated retribution for the success of the film.

In March 2013, Dinesh D'Souza announced work on a documentary-style film titled America: Imagine the World Without Her for release in 2014.

On July 25,2016, Dinesh D'Souza released the documentary film Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party.

Dinesh D'Souza further argues that the political left attempt to falsely push claims of racism, white supremacy, and fascism onto the political right for political gain.

In May 2022, Dinesh D'Souza released 2000 Mules, a conspiracist political film that falsely alleges Democrat-aligned individuals were paid to illegally collect and deposit ballots into drop boxes in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election.

The Dispatch, a conservative online magazine, found that "The film's ballot harvesting theory is full of holes", and mentioned that "Dinesh D'Souza has a history of promoting false and misleading claims".

In September 2024, Dinesh D'Souza released Vindicating Trump, exploring the alleged hurdles facing the former president in his 2024 bid for re-election.

Dinesh D'Souza has appeared on numerous national television networks and programs.

Six days after the September 11,2001, attacks, Dinesh D'Souza appeared on Politically Incorrect hosted by Bill Maher.

Dinesh D'Souza said liberals' "penchant for interference" had a decided effect in convincing the Carter administration to withdraw support from the Shah, which brought on Muslim fundamentalists' control of the Iranian government.

Dinesh D'Souza said that the distorted representation of American culture on television is one source of resentment of the United States by Muslims worldwide.

Dinesh D'Souza believes that traditional Muslims are not too different from traditional Jews and Christians in America.

In late February 2017, students at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, stole more than 200 flyers advertising Dinesh D'Souza's planned appearance at the university the first week of March.

Twin brothers Manfred and Jonah Wendt, co-founders of the student conservative group Tigers for Liberty, had passed around 600 notices of Dinesh D'Souza's visit to campus.

Dinesh D'Souza has been critical of feminism, and Bruce Goldner, in a review of Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education, noted that he "has a tendency to characterize feminists as castrating misanthropes".

Dinesh D'Souza attended the evangelical church Calvary Chapel from 2000 to about 2010.

Dinesh D'Souza elaborated on his views in the 2007 book he authored, What's so Great about Christianity.

Dinesh D'Souza has promoted several conspiracy theories, such as the false claim that Obama was not born in the United States and the conspiracy theory that the Clintons had murdered people.

Dinesh D'Souza has 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, a left-wing anti-fascist movement.

In November 2013, Dinesh D'Souza received backlash for referring to Obama as "Grown-Up Trayvon" in a tweet.

In February 2015, Dinesh D'Souza wrote: "You can take the boy out of the ghetto" in a post criticizing Obama for using a selfie stick.

Dinesh D'Souza later posted that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' contributions to the civil rights movement were "absurdly inflated" and described her as an "overrated Democrat".

In February 2018, Dinesh D'Souza was criticized for a series of posts which mocked the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Dinesh D'Souza accused the survivors of "politically-orchestrated grief" and said that their grief "[struck him] as phony and inauthentic".

Dinesh D'Souza's comments were condemned by both liberal and conservative commentators.

Dinesh D'Souza was denounced by the Conservative Political Action Conference, which removed him from its roster of speakers and stated: "his comments are indefensible".

In February 2021, after the January 6 United States Capitol attack took place, Dinesh D'Souza suggested that the rioters were little more than "a bunch of rowdy people walking through a hallway".

On 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 and causing false statements to be made to the Federal Election Commission.

On May 20,2014, Dinesh D'Souza pleaded guilty to one felony count of making illegal contributions in the names of others.

Dinesh D'Souza dated fellow conservatives Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter prior to meeting Dixie Brubaker while working at the White House.

In 2017, Danielle Dinesh D'Souza married Brandon Gill, who became the representative for Texas's 26th congressional district in 2025; they have a daughter, Marigold, and live in Flower Mound, Texas.

Dinesh D'Souza maintained a residence near San Diego, California, where his wife and daughter remained.

On March 19,2016, Dinesh D'Souza married Deborah Fancher, a conservative political activist and mother of two.