Douglass Mackey Successfully Unwinds Conviction
A Series On Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Surprising.
A Jury found Mackey despite having worked with a group that included James Brower, AKA Microchip, Andrew Auernheimer, AKA Weev, of conspiring to deprive blacks of their vote in 2016, has now seen that conviction tossed by a three-panel judge. Those judges believed the government having not prosecuted anyone other than Mackey, had not proven he acted within a criminal conspiracy—something currently being argued by Ghislaine Maxwell in her much longer shot at getting a new trial.
This also likely means those suggested to have entered plea deals in the case, are now likely to never be officially sentenced or even publicly charged—despite their known obstructive efforts to derail the prosecution from within during and after the trial. Doug Matthew Stewart, one of Mackey’s associates, made significant public efforts to undermine the DOJs, having Canadian hacker Adam Guerbuez pose as Microchip, while Stewart too ran a misleading Microchip imposter account himself during Mackey’s trial.
Mackey was networked in to many of the biggest MAGA3x influencers, those that ran Mike Flynn’s QAnon operations, Charles Johnson included. This of course helped him get his story, replete with misleading fabrications, out to the rightwing audience. Here below was another of his partners, downplaying the joint efforts they made, to steal the 2016 US election for Trump.
Nevertheless, he did those things he was accused of, with others named and unnamed, that he had been found guilty of by a jury making this a unwinding of justice for those he targeted and stole votes from.
Mackey’s subterfuge did not meaningful steal the election as much as what Chuck Johnson claimed to have done without showing his work—manipulating Comey into announcing he was screwing over Hillary Clinton after receiving a fake laptop purportedly to have been stolen from Anthony Weiner. So yes, Johnson is in far worse shape, facing a very likely indictment that feels likely to post before the end of the calendar year.