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Cardinal Angelo Becciu plans to appeal.

In Vatican City over the weekend, a panel of judges convicted Cdl. Angelo Becciu of financial crimes. In this episode of The Download, hosts Bradley Eli, Rodney Pelletier and Kyle Kopy discuss financial problems at the Vatican.

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What will you do?

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about the upcoming trial of one Douglass Mackey, a patriotic meme maker who was arrested for publishing memes about Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. Mackey put up goofy posts encouraging people to text "Hillary" to a number in order to vote for her and avoid lines.

Of course, the whole thing was a spoof and a goof, akin to the practice back in the old days of telling your opponent's supporters to be sure and vote on Wednesday, when, of course, the election was the day before, on Tuesday.

By way of update, last week, Mackey was found guilty of interfering with citizens' sacred right to vote and is now awaiting sentencing and could face 10 years behind bars.

Church Militant has been watching this case very closely. Here are about 75 pages of research on it because we know a lot of the behind-the-scenes story, a story that could end up setting a precedent for not only canceling free speech but actually imprisoning you for it.

Douglass posted his satire memes a week or so before the 2016 election, where Trump defeated Killary. Then when Biden "won" in 2020 and was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021. An indictment against Mackey was handed down two days later, and he was arrested later that week.

The timeline says it all. The chair in the Oval Office was still warm from Trump when Biden's DOJ went and arrested Mackey for posting a joke meme. The back story is that the DOJ was itching all during the Trump years to arrest, charge and convict Mackey but held off, waiting in the wings.

No sooner had old braindead Brandon gotten in than they went racing after the young man. Later media reports revealed the Department of Justice, which is a joke if there ever was one, had been plotting for years to gin up a "test case" whereby they could actually throw someone in prison for his political postings.

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Arresting political opposition?

There is a gigantic case in federal court that is a test case for Biden's Department of Justice to squelch free speech under threat of voter alienation. And it's the most important case you've never heard of. And for Catholics, still reeling from the news about the secret FBI dossier targeting the faithful, this case bears very close scrutiny.

It's a little involved, and we don't want to go too far afield, but — just for background — in the run-up to the 2016 election, a man by the name of Douglass Mackey went under the Twitter identity of "Ricky Vaughn" and routinely posted satirical memes and tweets against Hillary Clinton. But one got him in trouble with the DOJ.

And here it is: It suggested Hillary supporters could just skip actually voting and instead just text a code and vote that way. It said, as you can see, "Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text Hillary to [the provided number]." It was a joke. And, at the time, everyone saw it that way — especially given multiple other political satires Mackey had posted under his Ricky Vaughn pseudonym.

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