A 33-year-old creator of a popular pro-Trump Twitter account is facing up to 10 years behind bars over memes the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) claims interfered with the 2016 presidential election.
Douglass Mackey, who went by the Twitter alias Ricky Vaughn, was charged about a week after President Joe Biden took office — some four years after the memes were posted. While the DOJ claims Mackey conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their constitutional right to vote, the accused’s attorney says the memes were satire and don’t fall under the statute Mackey is being charged with, which is 18 U.S. Code 241.
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