Bullying the underlings
Two election workers who counted votes for the 2020 presidential election filed a defamation lawsuit Thursday against the parent company of One America News, senior staff at the far-right TV network, and Rudolph W. Giuliani, who served as a personal lawyer to former president Donald Trump.
Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, who worked in Fulton County, Ga., allege that One America News and Giuliani, who frequently appears on the network, knowingly spread misinformation about them, including falsehoods that they logged illegal ballots for Joe Biden in the election.
The two women “have become objects of vitriol, threats, and harassment … because of a campaign of malicious lies,” their attorneys wrote in the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
I hope they win, and I hope they’re awarded an enormous sum in damages.
The lawsuit is the second filed by the women this month against defendants they say spread false and defamatory information about their role in the election. On Dec. 2, Freeman and Moss sued Gateway Pundit, a far-right conspiracy website, alleging that the site published false stories about them that they say instigated a relentless campaign of harassment and threats.
That legal action said that the abuse against the two women was so severe that they had to “change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical safety.” At one point, Freeman left her home for two months at the advice of the FBI.
I hope OAN and its bosses and Giuliani are all stripped of everything they own except their toothbrushes.
This whole thing is disgusting and terrifying. How anyone can look at Trump and be inspired is astonishing. (I can’t see anyone getting inspired by any of the Democrats either, but the degree of devotion and fanaticism of Trump supporters is something else.)
These Republican cry-babies seem totally ignorant or unconcerned about the “steals” their own party practices. Which makes them hypocrites.
They seem incapable of reflecting on the significance of multiple REPUBLICAN electoral officials testifying in oppposition to Trump’s fairy tale and REPUBLICAN judges ruling against his ridiculous claims.
But these Trump supporters are angry, armed and dangerous and fascism seems to come naturally to them. But the Democratic leadership seems able to simultaneously refer to Trump’s movement as authoritarian and dangerous while doing next to nothing to resist them, and even sabotaging their own electoral prospects by disowning their own promises they made to get elected last time.
Eh. This is just beginning….
Six magic numbers is all I need to emigrate
The womens’ law team should have no trouble in proving malice on the part of the defamers; the big decider in such cases. I hope they are awarded $1 squillion in damages.