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Guilty verdict for pro-Trump troll who tried to trick voters for casting Hillary Clinton ballots in 2016
NY Daily News ^
| March 31.2023
| Ellen Moynihan and John Annese
Posted on 03/31/2023 2:03:36 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
A federal jury on Friday convicted pro-Trump troll Douglass Mackey of plotting to trick voters out of casting a ballot during the 2016 presidential election.
The case, which sought to address if any of the toxic stew of Internet disinformation during the 2016 election rose to the level of a crime, has been closely watched by both anti-extremist groups and right-wing politicians and pundits.
Mackey, 33, of West Palm Beach, Fla., who gained fame on the Internet as the Twitter user “Ricky Vaughn,” posted two images made to look like fake Hillary Clinton ads telling people they could vote by text instead of in-person.
Federal prosecutors called the images part of a plot to disenfranchise Black and women voters, but Mackey insisted that he was simply “s--tposting” and sharing ridiculous memes.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 10yearsinprison; 1stamendment; 2016; annmdonnelly; breonpeace; brooklyn; clinton; douglassmackey; ednewyork; erikdpaulsen; fraud; freespeech; fturnerbuford; hillary; howtostealanelection; internet; mackey; memes; michaeljdriscoll; nyc; rickyvaughn; shivaniparshad; socialmedia; tellmeboutdarussians; voterfraud; williamjgullotta
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To: sergeantdave
Not holding my breath waiting for that.
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04/01/2023 7:44:02 AM PDT
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TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
To: arthurus
I call him Lavrenti Garland.
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04/01/2023 7:45:44 AM PDT
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TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
To: Scott from the Left Coast
The government of the United States is far and away the most heinous, corrupt, criminal and detestable government on Earth. And it isn’t even close. Now that government is running hard to become the most vile and heinous government in the history of mankind. I give it a few more years…and it will get that crown as well. Unless we are all very lucky and someone from the outside destroys this infernal country. Never ask me to swear fealty to the USSA.
We owe the USSR and North Korea sincere apologies.
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04/01/2023 7:48:22 AM PDT
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Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: TBP
He was trolling. That is not a crime. Everyone involved in the case knows that. Well, now he'll know that from appeals court.
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04/01/2023 8:01:51 AM PDT
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Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Lazamataz
“ We owe the USSR and North Korea sincere apologies.‘
And we will have our own unique and totally American set of police state features…like our Antifa/Trans goon squads, white Christian underclass/untouchables, and fentanyl/heroin population control programs.
Our national anthem has become particularly humiliating: Land of the sheep, home of the knaves.
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