This week, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss testified about the trauma and harassment they endured after Rudy Giuliani falsely claimed they participated in ballot fraud to rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump. The mother-daughter pair were serving as election workers in Georgia when Trump lost to President Joe Biden.
“I can’t show my name no more,” Freeman, Moss’ mother, stated Wednesday while on the stand. “I miss my old neighborhood because I was me. I could introduce myself. Now I just don’t have a name.”
In August, a federal judge ruled that Giuliani was liable for defamation by default after he consistently refused to hand over evidence in the case. Freeman and Moss are seeking between $14 million and $41 million from Giuliani for defamation as well as emotional distress.
Giuliani has confessed to making false statements about the women, but on Monday told reporters they were “true,” according to MSNBC.
On Wednesday, Freeman recalled the notorious phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump names Freeman repeatedly and labeled her a “professional vote scammer” as well as a “hustler.”
“I just felt like, ‘Really?’ This is the former president talking about me? Me?’ How mean, how evil,” she said, fighting back tears. “He had no clue what he was talking about. He was just trying to put a name to somebody stealing ballots, which was totally a lie.”
Moss testified on Tuesday about the harrowing experience, sharing that she lost her job and that the lives of her relatives were threatened.
“I am most scared of my son finding me and or my mom hanging outside my house on a tree, or having to get the news at school that his momma was killed,” Moss stated.
Moss also said she had to talk to her 14-year-old son about what they were experiencing. “I had to tell him racism is real, and it comes out. And it was just — I can’t even describe it. I felt like the worst mom ever to allow him to have to hear this, have to experience this day after day after day,” she said.
When asked on the stand if she stole the election, Moss answered with a straightforward “No.”