‘No material impact’: Musk criticizes man’s prison sentence during 2016 Meme vs. Hunter Laptop Propagandists

On Wednesday, a federal judge appointed by Obama sentenced a man named Douglass Mackey to seven months in prison for posting a meme in 2016 who directed people to vote for then-candidate Hillary Clinton via text message.

In March, a Brooklyn jury found Mackey guilty of one count alleging he conspired to disenfranchise people when he posted this meme with the alias “@TheRickyVaughn,” which had more than 58,000 followers in that moment.

Mackey will miss the birth of his first child for exactly the same reason this woman did…

Mackey’s legal defense asked the judge in the case not to send him to prison, arguing in a memorandum of judgment that he is a new man and that his days as an internet troll are over.

“Three years before the government arrested Douglass Mackey on the charge in this case, he moved to Florida to enroll in intensive inpatient psychotherapy followed by outpatient psychotherapy,” Mackey said last month, according to to say. Holder USA. “The Douglass Mackey who stands before the Court for sentencing is not the Ricky Vaughn of seven years ago, but a role model for the friends he met in therapy, a brother in faith in his Church and a devoted husband to his wife, who is expected to give birth to the couple’s first child in November.“

Although Mackey has appealed his conviction, his attorney, Andrew Frisch, says the case “presents an unusual set of compelling appellate issues. I am optimistic that the sentence will be vacated.”

Reactions on the right to Mackey’s conviction were mostly outrage over Biden’s “armed” DOJ going after another conservative. Elon Musk, owner of “X,” said what he did “had no material impact on the election.” compared to those behind the deletion of Hunter Biden’s laptop, which “*had* a material impact on the election.”

This had no material impact on the election.

What prison sentences were given to those who deleted information from Hunter Biden’s laptop? This *had* a material impact on the election.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 18, 2023

I don’t need to tell you with your new friends at the three-letter agency investigating you, but the DOJ has been completely weaponized against the American people.

bolsheviks

— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) October 18, 2023

This meme got Kristina wong zero months in jail pic.twitter.com/fviz0iG4jx

— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) October 18, 2023

Speaking of material impacts…

Russiagate had a material impact on the election with a large number of people still believing in collusion. But now we’re learning that Alfa Bank investigators connected to Clinton also played a major role in attributing the DNC hack…

It still needs an investigation.

— Undead FOIA 3.0 (@UndeadFoia) October 18, 2023