Elon Musk Slams Conviction Of Pro-Trump Memester By Biden DOJ | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Amanda Prestigiacomo.

    Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that the criminal conviction of pro-Trump meme creator Douglass Mackey was "over the top."

    A Brooklyn jury last month found Mackey guilty of interfering in the 2016 presidential election over his social media posts, convicting him on one count of "Conspiracy Against Rights" over memes he shared. Mackey, who operated on Twitter under the pseudonym "Ricky Vaughn," is facing 10 years behind bars.

    "I think 'criminal' is over the top, there," Musk said during a Twitter Spaces conversation. "I would agree with that. They went too far."

    "If that's the standard for throwing someone in prison, then there should be a lot more people in prison," the 51-year-old said.

    "What are you in prison for? 'Oh, meme crimes,'" someone else in the Twitter Spaces conversation quipped, to which Musk responded, "Exactly."

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I asked @ElonMusk about Douglass Mackey, who the Biden DOJ wants to send to prison for 10 years for posting a Hillary Clinton Meme in 2016:"Over the top... they went too far... If that's the standard for throwing someone in prison, then there should be a lot of people in prison." pic.twitter.com/X2m8wnj7jl

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) April 12, 2023

    The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was charging Mackey with election interference just one week after President Joe Biden took office in 2021. Some legal experts quickly expressed concern that the DOJ could be overstepping for political reasons and infringing on Americans' free speech rights.

    Columnist and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Andy McCarthy called it a "three-fer" - "the prosecutorial creation of a crime Congress has not prescribed, the trivialization of civil-rights law, and the intrusion of government as a monitor of political speech."

    Before the conviction, Musk made clear that he was concerned about the Biden DOJ targeting the 33-year-old over memes. Responding to a tweet that called the case "concerning," Musk responded, "Yeah."

    The jury in the Mackey trial deliberated for about 35 hours over the course of five days before rendering a guilty verdict. Notably, the jury sent notes back to Judge Ann Donnelly on two of those days saying that they were split and could not come to a decision. Judge Donnelly, though, ordered the jury to reconvene and continue deliberations through what's called an Allen charge. The charge is controversial, with some arguing that it puts pressure on jurors in the minority opinion to change their tune.

    Mackey himself reportedly gave no reaction when the guilty verdict was read in court, but his father, also in the courtroom, let out a heavy sigh.

    Andrew J. Frisch, an attorney representing Mackey, has promised to appeal the guilty verdict.

    "This case presents an unusual array of appellate issues that are exceptionally strong," Frisch told reporters following the verdict. "This was the first chapter of the litigation of this case. We would have preferred to win, but I am confident about the way forward."

    "The appellate court will have its choice of which issue on which to vacate the conviction," the attorney added, according to a Twitter account linked to Mackey. "It may choose to do so on first amendment grounds, or on the government's suppression of exculpatory information, or on the insufficiency of evidence of venue among other issues. We are optimistic about our chances on appeal."

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In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

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