7 of Dinesh D'Souza's most shameful moments

The conservative provocateur and presidential pardon recipient has quite a history ...

Dinesh DSouza.
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Conservative commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza has friends in high places — see, for example, his receipt of a presidential pardon Thursday with the enthusiastic support of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) — and he was once a credible, if controversial, author with prestigious academic credentials.

In recent years, however, D'Souza, in addition to pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, has built a long record of shady journalism, cheap shots at political opponents, and outright racism that has won him many critics on left and right alike. Here are seven of D'Souza's most, uh, memorable moments.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.