Prosecution introduced evidence now where Douglass Mackey/Ricky Vaughn called Black people “the most gullible,” as in easy to deceive.
He also said women should be denied the right to vote.
Please consider this in the context of Tucker Carlson hyping him.
A jury will decide if Mackey committed a crime.
But what he said and did speaks loudly about the Trump movement.
His Ricky Vaughn account was wildly popular with Trump’s base, and this man essentially believed that non-white people and women were irrelevant, just dirt.
We also learned more about this “War Room” DM group.
Extremists coordinated to make Wikileaks and Podesta Emails-related hashtags trend, as well as disinfo schemes meant to demoralize young people, women, and people of color.
One non-criminal example of this tactic is when they tried to get #woke trending with #nevervote — to apparently create the sense that non-white people would be doing the “woke” thing by staying home.
Depressing turnout and demoralizing people was the goal.
The only person to come off worse than the extremists in the trial is Jack Dorsey. He let web Nazis run wild on his platform in 2016 and then let them do it again in the lead up to January 6.
Thread: Between witness testimony in the Ricky Vaughn case, the judge excused the jury to overhear defense objections to Twitter DM material used as evidence.
Some of it was fascinating. Some of it was … uh, highly amusing.
The DMs involved Ricky Vaughn/Douglass Mackey and other pro-Trump extremists collaborating to demoralize Clinton supporters and workshop memes together.
Quote from prosecution on issues of repetitiveness:
“For example, the word cuck appears a lot.”
One message apparently took place between Mackey and Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer.
The two extremists discussed some artifact called the “manual for loldongs terrorism.”
New: Jury selection is underway in the trial of Douglass “Ricky Vaughn” Mackey — who stands accused of targeting Black voters with a scam to disenfranchise them in 2016.
Come for Infowars' selling products that scan like dog food ads for humans, stay for Alex Jones begging Paul Joseph Watson for tweets in the most desperate manner I have ever seen.
For those unaware, Matt Colligan aka “Millennial Matt” showed up at Charlottesville as part of a cluster of racist, Pro-Trump influencers, like Baked Alaska.
By 2020, he allegedly confessed to becoming an FBI informant tasked with monitoring Nick Fuentes: masslive.com/news/boston/20…
Alleged informant Millennial Matt has mostly limited his online presence recently. We learned that he turned up in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. That's the same place where cops arrested all the Patriot Front members who tried to disrupt Pride in June 2022.