Justice for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss
Donald Trump and 18 of his alleged co-conspirators have now been indicted in Fulton County, Georgia, for trying to steal the 202 election. There’s been a lot written about what makes this latest round of indictments significant, but I was most interested to see that the indictments included the harassment and intimidation of election worker Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a former Fulton County Election Registration Officer.
If you watched the January 6 hearings in Congress, you probably remember Moss and Freeman’s testimony. Both women explained what they had endured from Trump’s cronies and supporters and how it had upended their lives. Ruby Freeman, describing how she’d once worn t-shirts bearing her name and the name of her business, Lady Ruby, almost every day, testified that she no longer felt safe hearing or saying her own name out loud in public.
Freeman:
“I’ve lost my name, and I’ve lost my reputation. I’ve lost my sense of security all because a group of people, starting with number 45 and his ally, Rudy Giuliani, decided to scapegoat me and my daughter, Shaye. To push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen.”
The harassment that Freeman and Moss endured wasn’t an isolated incident. Trump and his alleged co-conspirators harassed election workers…
