Conservatives jump to defend man accused of election fraud scheme against Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump Jr. is among those conservative influencers who are defending an extreme right-wing social media influencer who was sentenced to seven months in prison for an election interference scheme against Black voters in 2016.

Despite consistently beating the drum of alleged "voter fraud," Republicans like the ex-president's son are lining up to support Douglass Mackey, who used his 58,000-follower social media account to push misinformation intended to trick Black people into believing they could vote by text message, shortly after discussing with his supporters the importance of limiting "Black turnout."

Donald Trump Jr. said Wednesday that the Biden "regime" sentenced Mackey to 7 months in jail "for posting memes about Hillary."

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"If anyone still thinks everything conservatives have been saying about the marxists & their intentions is hyperbole they’re idiots & deserve to live under the dems commie system," he wrote.

Conservative political operative Jack Posobiec also mirrored that same language.

Right-wing activist leader Charlie Kirk took things a step further.

"Democrats in the DOJ were so angry about Hillary Clinton losing that four years after her defeat, they tracked down and arrested the author of a meme they didn't like, and prosecuted him with a law meant to punish racial terrorism by the Ku Klux Klan," he wrote on Wednesday. "Douglass Mackey should never have been investigated, never have been arrested, never have been tried, never have been convicted. Now, the DOJ is shipping him off to seven months in federal prison. Douglas Mackey is a political prisoner, no different from anyone locked up in Xi Jinping's China."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also jumped on the bandwagon.

"The Communist Gulags are here in America. Douglass Mackey was just sentenced to 7 months in federal prison for the crime of posting memes," she said Wednesday. "Biden’s Department of Justice is fully weaponized against any political opposition. Who’s next? You?"