'A lot of them were racist': Election worker details abuse from Trump supporters
An former election worker from the US state of Georgia has testified to lawmakers about racist abuse she endured after former President Donald Trump and his allies falsely accused her and her mother of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase in Georgia.
Wandrea “Shaye” Moss recounted in a wrenching appearance before a committee investigating events on 6 January 2021 when a crowd of pro-Trump protesters stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC.
The committee heard how the defeated president latched onto surveillance footage from November 2020 to accuse her and her mother, Ruby Freeman, of committing voter fraud - allegations that were quickly debunked, yet spread widely across conservative media.
Moss, who is Black, said she received messages “wishing death upon me. Telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother. And saying things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’”
“A lot of them were racist,” Moss said. “A lot of them were just hateful.”
The committee also played testimony from Freeman, who sat behind Moss in the hearing room, showing support for her daughter and at one point passing over a box of tissues as lawmakers heard about their shattering ordeal.
“There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere,” Freeman told the committee in the prerecorded video. “Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you? The president of the United States is supposed to represent every American, not to target one.”
“But he targeted me,” she added.
The emotional testimony from mother and daughter was just the latest attempt by the investigating panel to show how lies perpetrated by Trump and his allies about a stolen election turned into real-life violence and intimidation against the caretakers of American
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