The latest installment of NBC Nightly News’s “Justice for All” series (a series about criminal justice and reform), anchor Lester Holt complained about the case of Crystal Mason, who according to the Tarrant County, Texas district attorney, “knew she wasn't eligible to vote and voted anyway.” That’s right, NBC was upset someone was prosecuted for illegally casting a ballot.

Holt used gracious language from the start, like when he spoke about how “she saw it as a civic duty, Crystal Mason recalling the 2016 election and the vote that would change her life.”

According to the story, Mason’s mother encouraged her to go vote but when she arrived her name was not included in the voter rolls, and was instructed to fill out a provisional ballot. “But that sealed provisional ballot sealed her fate, landing her behind bars for illegal voting,” Holt stated dramatically.

It was then that Holt admitted that Mason had once “been convicted of tax fraud. She was sentenced to five years in federal prison and three years supervised release.” He would go to explain that “in Texas, felons can vote after completing their sentence, parole, and probation. But when she voted, Mason was still on supervised release.”

“She was convicted of illegal voting and sentenced to five years in state prison, plus ten additional months on her federal sentence,” he seemed to lament.

Holt then seemed to suggest something unjust or untoward befell Mason in her case. First, the NBC anchor spoke with NBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos, who suggested: “A felon who comes in and votes when they're not legally allowed to vote, that's not really a prosecution you see very often.”

Going further down that conspiracy road, Holt recalled the case of a white woman in Iowa who “was convicted of voting twice in the 2016 election and was sentenced to two years probation and a $750 fine.” Mason is black.

Only towards the end of his report did Holt share what the district attorney’s office had to say about the case:

Tarrant County District Attorney Sharon Wilson declined an on-camera interview, but issued a statement saying, in part, “Our office offered Mason the option of probation in this case which she refused. She chose to have a trial by judge, and the judge found beyond a reasonable doubt from the evidence that she knew she wasn't eligible to vote and voted anyway.”

“Mason is out on bond and living off donations,” Holt added.

The liberal media literally calls the duly elected President of the United States a threat to democracy, then turns around and decries the prosecution of people who knowingly vote illegally.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: