Douglass Mackey, the creator of a popular pro-Trump X account, was convicted by the Biden DOJ in 2023 of election interference for posting memes that mocked Hillary Clinton voters to cast their ballot via text during the 2016 presidential election.
Mackey, who was charged by the Biden DOJ some four years after posting the memes in question, was facing a stunning 10 years behind bars. In 2023, he was sentenced to seven months, but the sentence was delayed by an appeals court.
During the 2016 election, Mackey posted on his X account, “Avoid the line. Vote from home … Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925,” alongside an image of a woman holding a Clinton sign. This along with several other similar memes were cited by the prosecution as Mackey using “Twitter to trick American citizens into thinking they could vote by text and stay at home on Election Day — thereby suppressing and…
