Trump's renewed attack on Ruby Freeman is revealing. Here's why.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-ruby-freeman-georgia-truth-social-rcna64410


Seemingly out of nowhere this week, former President Donald Trump fired off a series of deranged, disjointed “truths” about former Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman.

As my colleague Steve Benen recounted Wednesday, Freeman and Shaye Moss, her daughter, were accused by Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others of tampering with ballots at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Election Day in 2020. But federal and state investigators found no evidence to support those accusations, and at least one Justice Department official told Trump the claims were false.

Nonetheless, Trump took aim at Freeman again this week on his social media platform, Truth Social, baselessly accusing her of lying under oath and committing election crimes.

Because Freeman has an ongoing defamation suit against Giuliani, some may wonder whether these new posts could enable her to sue Trump himself. Although Trump could be insulated from defamation claims regarding statements made during his presidency, a question that federal courts are still weighing, Freeman likely could sue him for repeating false statements about her now. After all, author E. Jean Carroll recently filed a new defamation lawsuit against Trump after he repeated certain allegations about her on Truth Social shortly before he was deposed in her case.

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[chowder66]

1. What is it with "disjointed truths"? Why not lies, falsehoods...etc?

Weird.

[Eugene]

2. Untruth Unsocial calls its posts "truths", regardless of their relationship with reality.

Trumpian truths as opposed to fact-based truth.

[chowder66]

3. Ah. Thanks.