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.
Within the last two weeks in May of 2022 when the DVD became available on Amazon, it surged as the #1 DVD sold on that site. Beating out Batman, Encanto and Dog with far less advertisement and marketing. However, as of 6/13/22, it dropped off Amazon's top ten DVD sales list. There seem to be no available copies of the movie any longer.
Texas-based conservative group True the Vote, on whom 2000 Mules 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 director is a convicted felon.
The film's premise has been refuted.