Mackey spoke to about the conviction and sentencing, and revealed that while his alleged crime was committed in 2016, he wasn't arrested until a week after Joe Biden was inaugurated in the White House. Hillary Clinton celebrated the arrest, something widely viewed as a violation of free speech rights.
She said Mackey's joke went "from what you would consider free speech... to running a very deliberate effort to mislead people about where and how to vote. So it went from speech to action meant to subvert the election, because thousands of people who they targeted through their algorithms, 'oh I could text my vote for Hillary Clinton."