'How evil': Ruby Freeman describes violent threats after false Trump, Giuliani attacks

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Ruby Freeman, a former Georgia election worker, said she was already reeling from a campaign of violent and racist threats against her three years ago when Donald Trump decided to make her an even bigger target.

On the witness stand in federal court Wednesday, Freeman described how Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, falsely accused her of manipulating ballots in the 2020 election — a smear campaign that prompted a torrent of threatening messages and upended her life.

But when Trump took those false claims and echoed them — in an infamous phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — the threats became even more pernicious, she said.

“I just felt like ‘really?’ This is the former president talking about me? Me? How mean, how evil? I just was devastated,” Freeman recalled, fighting back tears as she recounted the episode. “I didn’t do nothing. It just made me feel … you don’t care that I’m a real person.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/13/giuliani-trial-ruby-freeman-testimony-00131659

[Chi67]

1. Of course!

This is what right wingers do.

[twodogsbarking]

2. Hi everyone.

[NBachers]

3. I'm glad to see *rump being brought into this as well as Giuliani.

[prodigitalson]

4. Don't Care That You're a Real Person

pretty much the gop guiding principal

[Ligyron]

5. There ought to be a way...

a way to catch these people who use their phones or devices to make threats against other people. There is caller ID technology and if the police can tract people's whereabouts, can they not at least ID the jerks making these threats and charge them? Somehow those using the mail?

Okay, I'm ignorant as to what is possible or the means needed to ID these creeps but just think what even a few successful prosecutions might do to discourage this repulsive and surely illegal behavior.

To our great misfortune and that of Democracy, these threats have pretty much succeeded in their intended effect, i.e., discouraging poll workers, members of school boards and possible candidates for various offices and those elected, IOW anyone who might threaten the MAGA terrorists, their orange god and their growing embrace of fascism