Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss testified this week about the years of harassment and anguish they endured as a result of Rudy Giuliani falsely alleging they engaged in ballot fraud to rig the 2020 election against Donald Trump while working as election workers in Georgia.
The mother-daughter duo separately took the stand as a jury considers how much Giuliani must pay them in damages for his defamatory claims about them.
“I can’t show my name no more,” Freeman, Moss’ mother, testified Wednesday. “I miss my old neighborhood because I was me. I could introduce myself. Now I just don’t have a name.”
A federal judge found Giuliani liable for defamation by default in August after he repeatedly refused to turn over evidence in the case. Freeman and Moss are seeking between $14 million and $41 million from Giuliani for defamation and emotional distress.
Giuliani admitted to making “false” statements about the women but disputed that it caused them damages in a July filing. (He did, however, tell reporters Monday that his past statements about Freeman and Moss are actually “true,” which could land him in more legal trouble.)
Freeman on Wednesday recounted the barrage of “racist” and “scary” text messages, emails and voicemails she began to receive just hours after Giuliani publicly accused her of submitting false votes for Joe Biden. She also testified about the infamous phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump named Freeman multiple times, calling her a “professional vote scammer” and a “hustler.”
Freeman said she was “devastated” when she heard a recording of the call.
“I just felt like, ‘Really?’ This is the former president talking about me? Me?’ How mean, how evil,” she said, choking up. “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 took the stand a day before her mother, testifying through tears…
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