Freeman says she moved for safety after onslaught of threats
Ruby Freeman, a former elections worker in Georgia, testified that she had to move from her home for her safety after a barrage of threats.
At her new home, she felt she couldn’t tell any neighbors her name. She couldn’t put all the utilities and home-related documentation in her name, WUSA9’s Jordan Fischer wrote on X.
When she saw the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January, she thought it could have been her.
Freeman is incredibly choked up as she talks about being too scared to tell her new neighbors her name.
Freeman: "I miss my old neighborhood because I was me. I could introduce myself. Now I don't have a name really."
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) December 13, 2023
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Freeman is incredibly choked up as she talks about being too scared to tell her new neighbors her name.
Freeman: “I miss my old neighborhood because I was me. I could introduce myself. Now I don’t have a name really.”
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) December 13, 2023
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The plaintiffs completed their side of the case at the end of Wednesday, ending with Ruby Freeman’s testimony of the ways the election conspiracies upended her life. Rudy Giuliani’s team will present its side on Thursday, with Giuliani possibly taking the stand.
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Freeman testified about her experiences following Giuliani’s defamatory comments made towards her in which he accused her of committing election fraud. “Sometimes I don’t know who I am,” said Freeman.
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Freeman shared the messages she received after lies by Trump and Giuliani spread around the internet. The messages included graphic language, racist imagery and slurs, harassment and death threats. She feared for her life.
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Freeman said that she had to move from her home for safety reasons and has not felt comfortable telling her new neighbors her name. She didn’t put her house or utilities in her name out of concern for her safety.
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Joe Sibley, Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, tested the idea that perhaps Giuliani’s defamation case actually helped Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports. Sibley pointed to Freeman and Moss receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal from Joe Biden earlier this year, as well as Moss being awarded the John F Kennedy Profile in Courage award.
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Joseph Sibley also tried to undercut the idea that tens of millions of dollars are needed to repair the reputations of Freeman and Moss’ reputation. He assailed the idea of using a reputational repair campaign as a way of quantifying the harm of a defamed statement. He also suggested that until Ashlee Humphreys – a professor from Northwestern University and an expert witness of plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss – utilized it in the E Jean Carroll defamation case, it has not been used.
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“The defamatory claims had a significant, negative and long-lasting impact on the reputations of Ms Freeman and Ms Moss,” said Ashlee Humphreys. “Ms Freeman and Ms Moss are widely associated with claims of election fraud,” Humphreys added.
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Ashlee Humphreys said in court that prior to 3 December 2020, there was almost no search traffic for “Ruby Freeman”. Afterwards, there was an increase, she said.
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Ashlee Humphreys also analyzed a Donald Trump campaign advertisement about suitcases in Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports. According to Humphreys, the advertisement got between 8m and 18.2m impressions from the Trump campaign and Trump Twitter accounts.
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Ashlee Humphreys also explained the omnipresent nature of podcasts and how they appear on various platforms, according to Law & Crime reporter Brandi Buchman. Humphreys added that Rudy Giuliani’s podcast in which he accused Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman of cheating was widely shared on multiple platforms including his website and One America Network, a far-right cable news channel.
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Federal judge Beryl Howell called out Rudy Giuliani for disparaging the plaintiffs’ counsel last night following yesterday’s court hearing, saying that it violated a court stipulation. “I thought I could make comments about counsel,” said Giuliani, adding: “I will not do it in the future.” In response, Howell said, “There’s a lot of accidents going on here, Mr Giuliani.”
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Ruby Freeman, a former elections worker in Georgia, testified that she had to move from her home for her safety after a barrage of threats.
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At her new home, she felt she couldn’t tell any neighbors her name. She couldn’t put all the utilities and home-related documentation in her name, WUSA9’s Jordan Fischer wrote on X.
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When she saw the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January, she thought it could have been her.
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Freeman is incredibly choked up as she talks about being too scared to tell her new neighbors her name.
Freeman: "I miss my old neighborhood because I was me. I could introduce myself. Now I don't have a name really."
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) December 13, 2023
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Freeman’s testimony will follow the testimony of Shaye Moss, which was delivered earlier this week.
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Joseph Sibley, Rudy Giuliani’s attorney, has been trying to undercut the idea that tens of millions of dollars are needed to repair the reputations of Freeman and Moss’ reputation.
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He has assailed the idea of using a reputational repair campaign as a way of quantifying the harm of a defamed statement. He has suggested that until Humphreys utilized it in the E Jean Carroll defamation case, it has not been used. And under his questioning, Humphreys has been unable to give an example of a private person who has not been able to undertake a reputation repair campaign (she detailed how the brand Dior successfully ran one after John Galliano, its creative director, made antisemitic remarks).
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Sibley has also noted that Georgia officials and media outlets have widely reported that the statements about Freeman and Moss are not true. He has pressed Humphreys to acknowledge that she did not fully analyze what effect that could have on the need for a reputation repair campaign. Essentially, he is trying to seed the idea that she only studied Giuliani’s defamatory statements in a vacuum without broader context of efforts to combat lies about Freeman and Moss.
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He has also suggested that no campaign can successfully convince Americans the election wasn’t stolen.
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Joe Sibley, Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, asked Ashlee Humphreys why all her individual defamation cases “involve rightwing figures as defendants”, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports.
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“Is there a reason for that?” Sibley asked.
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“No,” Humphreys said in response.
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Sibley: “Why are all of your individual defamation cases, why do they all involve right wing figures as defendants? Is there a reason for that?”
Humphreys: “No.”
— Sam Levine (@srl) December 13, 2023
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The court is back in session.
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The federal judge Beryl Howell has just taken the bench, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports.
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The court is currently on break until around 1.15pm ET.
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Here is where the day stands:
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“The defamatory claims had a significant, negative and long-lasting impact on the reputations of Ms Freeman and Ms Moss,” said Ashlee Humphreys, a professor from Northwestern University and an expert witness of plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. “Ms Freeman and Ms Moss are widely associated with claims of election fraud,” Humphreys added.
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Ashlee Humphreys said in court that prior to 3 December 2020, there was almost no search traffic for “Ruby Freeman”. Afterwards, there was an increase, she said.
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Ashlee Humphreys also analyzed a Donald Trump campaign advertisement about suitcases in Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports. According to Humphreys, the advertisement got between 8m and 18.2m impressions from the Trump campaign and Trump Twitter accounts.
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Ashlee Humphreys also explained the omnipresent nature of podcasts and how they appear on various platforms, according to Law & Crime reporter Brandi Buchman. Humphreys added that Rudy Giuliani’s podcast in which he accused Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman of cheating was widely shared on multiple platforms including his website and One America Network, a far-right cable news channel.
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Federal judge Beryl Howell called out Rudy Giuliani for disparaging the plaintiffs’ counsel last night following yesterday’s court hearing, saying that it violated a court stipulation. “I thought I could make comments about counsel,” said Giuliani, adding: “I will not do it in the future.” In response, Howell said, “There’s a lot of accidents going on here, Mr Giuliani.”
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“The defamatory claims had a significant, negative and long-lasting impact on the reputations of Ms Freeman and Ms Moss,” said Ashlee Humphreys, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports.
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“Ms Freeman and Ms Moss are widely associated with claims of election fraud,” Humphreys added.
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"The defamatory claims had a significant, negative and long-lasting impact on the reputations of Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss," Humphreys says. "Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss as widely associated with claims of election fraud."
— Sam Levine (@srl) December 13, 2023
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Federal judge Beryl Howell called out Rudy Giuliani for disparaging the plaintiffs’ counsel last night following yesterday’s court hearing, saying that it violated a court stipulation, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports.
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Judge Beryl Howell needled Giuliani again for disparaging plaintiff’s counsel last night after court, saying it violated a court stipulation
— Sam Levine (@srl) December 13, 2023
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“I thought I could make comments about counsel,” said Giuliani, adding, “I will not do it in the future.”
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In response, Howell said, “There’s a lot of accidents going on here Mr. Giuliani.”
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"I thought I could make comments about counsel," Giuliani said. "I will not do it in the future."
"There's a lot of accidents going on here Mr. Giuliani," Howell said.
— Sam Levine (@srl) December 13, 2023
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Lawyers for Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman are just starting on their first witness of the day, Ashlee Humphreys, a professor at Northwestern University.
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Humphreys is an expert witness who studies social media and is expected to testify about how she calculated the damages Moss and Freeman are entitled to.
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Just as they have been all week, Moss, Freeman, and Giuliani are in the courtroom. Moss and Freeman are sitting next to each other at a table with their lawyers. Freeman’s back is to Giuliani, who is sitting at a table parallel to them with his lawyer.
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Ruby Freeman is expected to testify later today.
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The federal trial of Rudy Giuliani, the former lawyer of ex-president Donald Trump and former New York mayor, is set to continue today in Washington DC.
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Giuliani is at the center of a defamation case involving Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, both of whom served as election workers in Georgia’s Fulton county after the 2020 presidential election.
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Both women are seeking up to $43m in compensatory and punitive damages after Giuliani made false statements about them following the election, including accusing them of fraudulently counting mail-in ballots.
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On Monday, Giuliani’s lawyer told the court that awarding millions of dollars in damages would be like the “death penalty” for his client, adding that “it will be the end of Mr. Giuliani.”
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Meanwhile, during a tearful testimony on Tuesday, Moss said that Giuliani’s lies about her turned her life “upside down” and detailed her anxiety and depression that followed from Giuliani’s lies.
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Freeman is expected to testify today.
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Here are other developments in US politics:
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House Republicans are set to vote today to formalize their impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden.
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Hunter Biden is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee for a closed-door interview at 9:30am ET, Politico reports.
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Kamala Harris is launching the Biden administration’s Safer States Initiative to provide states with additional tools to reduce gun violence.
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Key events
Closing summary
Here is a wrap-up of the day’s key events:
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The plaintiffs completed their side of the case at the end of Wednesday, ending with Ruby Freeman’s testimony of the ways the election conspiracies upended her life. Rudy Giuliani’s team will present its side on Thursday, with Giuliani possibly taking the stand.
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Freeman testified about her experiences following Giuliani’s defamatory comments made towards her in which he accused her of committing election fraud. “Sometimes I don’t know who I am,” said Freeman.
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Freeman shared the messages she received after lies by Trump and Giuliani spread around the internet. The messages included graphic language, racist imagery and slurs, harassment and death threats. She feared for her life.
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Freeman said that she had to move from her home for safety reasons and has not felt comfortable telling her new neighbors her name. She didn’t put her house or utilities in her name out of concern for her safety.
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Joe Sibley, Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, tested the idea that perhaps Giuliani’s defamation case actually helped Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports. Sibley pointed to Freeman and Moss receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal from Joe Biden earlier this year, as well as Moss being awarded the John F Kennedy Profile in Courage award.
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Joseph Sibley also tried to undercut the idea that tens of millions of dollars are needed to repair the reputations of Freeman and Moss’ reputation. He assailed the idea of using a reputational repair campaign as a way of quantifying the harm of a defamed statement. He also suggested that until Ashlee Humphreys – a professor from Northwestern University and an expert witness of plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss – utilized it in the E Jean Carroll defamation case, it has not been used.
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“The defamatory claims had a significant, negative and long-lasting impact on the reputations of Ms Freeman and Ms Moss,” said Ashlee Humphreys. “Ms Freeman and Ms Moss are widely associated with claims of election fraud,” Humphreys added.
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Ashlee Humphreys said in court that prior to 3 December 2020, there was almost no search traffic for “Ruby Freeman”. Afterwards, there was an increase, she said.
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Ashlee Humphreys also analyzed a Donald Trump campaign advertisement about suitcases in Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports. According to Humphreys, the advertisement got between 8m and 18.2m impressions from the Trump campaign and Trump Twitter accounts.
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Ashlee Humphreys also explained the omnipresent nature of podcasts and how they appear on various platforms, according to Law & Crime reporter Brandi Buchman. Humphreys added that Rudy Giuliani’s podcast in which he accused Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman of cheating was widely shared on multiple platforms including his website and One America Network, a far-right cable news channel.
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Federal judge Beryl Howell called out Rudy Giuliani for disparaging the plaintiffs’ counsel last night following yesterday’s court hearing, saying that it violated a court stipulation. “I thought I could make comments about counsel,” said Giuliani, adding: “I will not do it in the future.” In response, Howell said, “There’s a lot of accidents going on here, Mr Giuliani.”
Rudy Giuliani’s attorney did not cross-examine Ruby Freeman.
Plaintiffs have rested their case, leaving the defense to present their side tomorrow. Giuliani may testify.
The plaintiffs case in chief is over, prosecutors have rested.
Tomorrow we start with the defense's case. Meaning Giuliani will likely testify. Jurors will come back in at 10AM.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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The plaintiffs case in chief is over, prosecutors have rested.
Tomorrow we start with the defense’s case. Meaning Giuliani will likely testify. Jurors will come back in at 10AM.— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Freeman says she moved for safety after onslaught of threats
Ruby Freeman, a former elections worker in Georgia, testified that she had to move from her home for her safety after a barrage of threats.
At her new home, she felt she couldn’t tell any neighbors her name. She couldn’t put all the utilities and home-related documentation in her name, WUSA9’s Jordan Fischer wrote on X.
When she saw the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January, she thought it could have been her.
Freeman is incredibly choked up as she talks about being too scared to tell her new neighbors her name.
Freeman: "I miss my old neighborhood because I was me. I could introduce myself. Now I don't have a name really."
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) December 13, 2023
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Freeman is incredibly choked up as she talks about being too scared to tell her new neighbors her name.
Freeman: “I miss my old neighborhood because I was me. I could introduce myself. Now I don’t have a name really.”
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) December 13, 2023
Ruby Freeman wore a shirt with her name on it when she was working the election in early December 2020, which showed in surveillance video of the State Farm Arena, where ballots were processed.
Freeman said on the stand today that she became a target because Trump needed someone to blame and they saw her shirt and figured out who she was.
“This was the plan, if No 45 didn’t win, they had already set this plan up. Now that my name is on the shirt, they can fill in the spaces. This is what they were going to do, saw my shirt, and they filled in the blanks,” she said, according to Law & Crime’s Brandi Buchman.
When Trump talked about ballot stuffing in suitcase on GA call, Freeman testifies that Trump said that and she believed he didnt know what he was talking about. he was just trying to pull a name out of a hat, essentially.
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— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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When Trump talked about ballot stuffing in suitcase on GA call, Freeman testifies that Trump said that and she believed he didnt know what he was talking about. he was just trying to pull a name out of a hat, essentially.
.— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Amateur sleuths watching surveillance footage of normal election procedures have ignited harassment campaigns against election workers, in many instances based on misinterpretations or misunderstandings of ballot processes.
In one instance, elections officials in Denver decided to stop posting live streams of ballot processing to protect the safety of election workers.
Ruby Freeman, a former election worker in Georgia who became the subject of election lies spread by Rudy Giuliani, is testifying about the racist, graphic, threatening messages she started receiving in December 2020.
The messages, shared in full by Law & Crime’s Brandi Buchman, include racist imagery, references to bodily harm, slurs and threats. Buchman’s thread includes the full messages:
An email appears next on screen from 12/4/20. It's from wee hours.
The subject line says 'someone's interested in LaRuby's Unique treasures"
It is targeting Freeman, calling her a criminal, a felon, the c-word, accused of treason
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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An email appears next on screen from 12/4/20. It’s from wee hours.
The subject line says ‘someone’s interested in LaRuby’s Unique treasures”
It is targeting Freeman, calling her a criminal, a felon, the c-word, accused of treason— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Election workers and officials across the country have shared the kinds of harassment and threats they faced in 2020 and after as a result of election lies.
Ruby Freeman said she never considered herself a political person. She just voted, Law & Crime’s Brandi Buchman reports.
In response to whether she would have thought at any point to double-check the ballots, Freeman said no, adding that the ballots were sealed in an envelope.
She never considered herself a political person. Just voted.
She worked at the Fulton County government center prior to volunteering in 2020 election.
At any point would she have thought to double check ballots?
Nope, Freeman says, the ballots were sealed in an envelope.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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She never considered herself a political person. Just voted.
She worked at the Fulton County government center prior to volunteering in 2020 election.
At any point would she have thought to double check ballots?
Nope, Freeman says, the ballots were sealed in an envelope.— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
She went on to say that nothing memorable happened after election day of 2020. However, that changed on the night of 3 December, going into the early morning of 4 December, Freeman testified.
Did anything memorable happen after election day?
No.
Did there come a time where that changed?
Dec 3 at night, going into Dec 4 early morning, Freeman testifies
Now we see Giuliani tweet from early morning 12/3/20 promoting baseless claims of fraud at State Farm Arena
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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Did anything memorable happen after election day?
No.
Did there come a time where that changed?
Dec 3 at night, going into Dec 4 early morning, Freeman testifies
Now we see Giuliani tweet from early morning 12/3/20 promoting baseless claims of fraud at State Farm Arena— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Ruby Freeman said that she started selling clothes as a street vendor at the Atlanta Braves’ baseball stadium in the late 1980s, Law & Crime’s Brandi Buchman reports.
Freeman added that she eventually changed to different sales and sold items under Ruby’s Unique Treasures.
She loved doing this. People would get to know her, offer to watch her table when she'd use restroom etc.
After a certain point, everybody had Braves merchandise, so she changed to different sales, selling under Ruby's Unique Treasures. She did trade shows, conventions etc
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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She loved doing this. People would get to know her, offer to watch her table when she’d use restroom etc.
After a certain point, everybody had Braves merchandise, so she changed to different sales, selling under Ruby’s Unique Treasures. She did trade shows, conventions etc— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
In 1984, Freeman’s daughter Shaye Moss was born. Moss went on to graduate from college in 2001 and “blessed me with a grandson”, Freeman said, Buchman reports.
Shaye went onto college, graduated in 2001 and came home and blessed me with a grandson, Freeman says.
After college, Moss started working at Fulton County voters registration. Freeman had worked in the dept for 11 years, another for several more.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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Shaye went onto college, graduated in 2001 and came home and blessed me with a grandson, Freeman says.
After college, Moss started working at Fulton County voters registration. Freeman had worked in the dept for 11 years, another for several more.— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
When asked why she volunteered to work on the 2020 presidential elections, Freeman said that when she worked with the 911 dispatch division of the police department, Fulton county “was so special to me”. As a result, when the 2020 elections came around, she chose to volunteer.
Freeman volunteered to work on 2020 election.
Why?
When she worked at police dept (911 dispatch) Fulton County "was so special to me" so when it was time for the election, she decided to get involved with volunteering.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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Freeman volunteered to work on 2020 election.
Why?
When she worked at police dept (911 dispatch) Fulton County “was so special to me” so when it was time for the election, she decided to get involved with volunteering.— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Ruby Freeman is asked what her nickname, Lady Ruby, means to her.
She says it means classy and unique, reports Law & Crime’s Brandi Buchman.
However, her voice begins to crack as she says that she no longer goes by the nickname.
“I can’t use my name any more. I’m no longer Lady Ruby. Sometimes I don’t know who I am,” Freeman says, Buchman reports.
Freeman states her name for the record. She introduces herself to the jury as Lady Ruby (this is the nickname) she has used for a longtime. She's a mother, daughter,a proud American citizen and a christian. She had a traveling boutique.
What does Lady Ruby mean to her?
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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Freeman states her name for the record. She introduces herself to the jury as Lady Ruby (this is the nickname) she has used for a longtime. She’s a mother, daughter,a proud American citizen and a christian. She had a traveling boutique.
What does Lady Ruby mean to her?— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Freeman adds that she likes her last name because it symbolizes being a freed person during slavery.
She likes her last name because it symbolizes being a "Freed" person during slavery.
She was raised in Georgia. Her mother, whom she refers to as mama, was strict. She worked ironing clothes. In a tobacco field. She was very protective.
I was like her youngest, Freeman says
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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She likes her last name because it symbolizes being a “Freed” person during slavery.
She was raised in Georgia. Her mother, whom she refers to as mama, was strict. She worked ironing clothes. In a tobacco field. She was very protective.
I was like her youngest, Freeman says— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Law & Crime’s Brandi Buchman reports Ruby Freeman being sworn in.
Freeman is wearing a white blazer and an orange turtleneck with black pants.
Ruby Freeman is sworn in. She wears a white blazer, lightly patterned, bright reddish orange turtleneck, black pants. Hair is pulled back and she has dangling earrings. A binder sits before her containing exhibits her attorneys will reference as they conduct direct examination.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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Ruby Freeman is sworn in. She wears a white blazer, lightly patterned, bright reddish orange turtleneck, black pants. Hair is pulled back and she has dangling earrings. A binder sits before her containing exhibits her attorneys will reference as they conduct direct examination.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Buchman reports Freeman introducing herself to the jury as Lady Ruby, a nickname she has used for a long time.
Freeman states her name for the record. She introduces herself to the jury as Lady Ruby (this is the nickname) she has used for a longtime. She's a mother, daughter,a proud American citizen and a christian. She had a traveling boutique.
What does Lady Ruby mean to her?
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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Freeman states her name for the record. She introduces herself to the jury as Lady Ruby (this is the nickname) she has used for a longtime. She’s a mother, daughter,a proud American citizen and a christian. She had a traveling boutique.
What does Lady Ruby mean to her?— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Ruby Freeman takes the stand
Freeman’s testimony will follow the testimony of Shaye Moss, which was delivered earlier this week.
Joe Sibley, Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, has asked whether Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss would use the money to repair the damage done to their reputations, Law & Crime’s Brandi Buchman reports.
Sibley asks if they (Moss/Freeman) would use the money to repair the damage to their reputations, and Humphrey says they are free to do with the money whatever they want.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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Sibley asks if they (Moss/Freeman) would use the money to repair the damage to their reputations, and Humphrey says they are free to do with the money whatever they want.
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
In response, Ashlee Humphreys said that they are free to do whatever they wish with the money.
Here is some additional color from the courtroom, according to Buchman:
Moss sits at back o table on her side; Freeman sits to her side. Moss has her chin resting on her hand for a moment, Freeman has hands down at her sides as she's seated. She wears a red turtleneck and white blazer.
Giuliani at his table, slouched a bit, resting on head on hand
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
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Moss sits at back o table on her side; Freeman sits to her side. Moss has her chin resting on her hand for a moment, Freeman has hands down at her sides as she’s seated. She wears a red turtleneck and white blazer.
Giuliani at his table, slouched a bit, resting on head on hand— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) December 13, 2023
Joe Sibley, Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, is testing the idea that perhaps Giuliani’s defamation case actually helped Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the Guardian’s Sam Levine reports.
Sibley pointed to Freeman and Moss receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal from Joe Biden earlier this year, as well as Moss being awarded the John F Kennedy Profile in Courage award.
Sibley is now testing the idea that perhaps the defamation campaign by Giuliani actually helped Freeman and Moss, noting they were awarded the presidential citizens medal and Moss won the JFK profile in courage award.
— Sam Levine (@srl) December 13, 2023
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Sibley is now testing the idea that perhaps the defamation campaign by Giuliani actually helped Freeman and Moss, noting they were awarded the presidential citizens medal and Moss won the JFK profile in courage award.
— Sam Levine (@srl) December 13, 2023
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