Georgia election workers suing conspiracy website [The Gateway Pundit] over ‘campaign of lies’

NBC News ^ | December 2, 2021 | Ben Collins

[Coronal]

Two Georgia election workers who became the target of conspiracy theories around the 2020 election are suing The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website that published false information about them as part of a sweeping effort to sow doubt about the integrity of the vote.

The election workers, Ruby Freeman, a retired 911 call center worker, and her daughter, Shaye Moss, allege in the lawsuit that Jim and Joe Hoft, twin brothers who operate and write for The Gateway Pundit, conducted “a campaign of lies” that “instigated a deluge of intimidation, harassment, and threats that has forced them to change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical safety.”

Freeman and her daughter became central figures in some of the many conspiracy theories that circulated among conservatives in the months after the election. Other subjects of similar theories — most notably companies that make voting machines — have also launched lawsuits targeted at media companies that spread misleading or outright evidence-free claims about their roles in the election.

Articles from The Gateway Pundit that named Freeman sparked a feedback loop of accusations that included President Donald Trump and other conservative media outlets.

The Hofts did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A month after articles appeared on The Gateway Pundit website that accused Freeman of “counting illegal ballots from a suitcase stashed under a table,” former President Donald Trump referred to her by name during his phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger on Jan. 2. On the call, Trump called Freeman “a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler.” (Trump is not named in the lawsuit.)

At the height of the harassment, Freeman said strangers twice attempted to push into her home to “make a citizens’ arrest,” the lawsuit alleges.

[Red Badger]

The election workers, Ruby Freeman, a retired 911 call center worker, and her daughter, Shaye Moss, allege in the lawsuit that Jim and Joe Hoft, twin brothers who operate and write for The Gateway Pundit, conducted “a campaign of lies” that “instigated a deluge of intimidation, harassment, and threats that has forced them to change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical safety.”

Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes...............

[Macoozie]

Can you say “Discovery”?

Lots of “evidence” would come out if this moves forward.

[jimjohn]

Am I wrong to remember that much of the foul-play with the GA election was captured... on video?

The discovery in the case should be fun.

just my $0.02

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I believe there is video of the daughter saying to the mother “we won’t get away with this” or something to that effect regarding a surreptitious key handoff.

[rlmorel]

I see this as a form of “lawfare”. They are doing it to warn off entities who get too close to the truth.

Bet on it...

[tennmountainman]

Freeman was caught on camera pulling suitcases full of votes from under a clothed table and throwing them in the vote count.
Why isn’t she in jail?

[Skywise]

So why can’t our side do the same to BLM, MSNBC, CNN?

[JaguarXKE]

How does NBC know it’s false information?

[BusterDog]

She would never say where the votes came from
Cannot stop the steal when it’s done
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows, she counts more votes

Goodbye Ruby Freeman
Who could hang a chad on you?
When you complain with every new day
Still we don’t believe you

[Sans-Culotte]

That’s pretty good.

[ConservativeInPA]

The video is pretty clear on this incident. The greater problem is why didn’t Georgia authorities go after the fraudsters.

[Red Badger]

They apparently have never heard about ‘DISCOVERY’ in civil suits......................

[tflabo]

Shoplifters caught on video get more justice applied to their actions than Ruby and her merry band of thieving balloteers caught on candid camera.

[Republican Wildcat]

President Donald Trump referred to her by name during his phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger on Jan. 2. On the call, Trump called Freeman “a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler.” (Trump is not named in the lawsuit.)

May be called as a witness to see if he relied on the report to make the comments.

[nesnah]

The video is pretty clear on this incident. The greater problem is why didn’t Georgia authorities go after the fraudsters.

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Because one does not go after one’s own self.

[John S Mosby]

And.... looky looky— who be comin’ back to run for gubnah. Having LOST VA with her pal Marc Elias, we know learn that
STACEY ABRAMS is “movin’ on up” and will run for governor, and RE-USE these very same ‘election officials” who are “suing” Gateway Pundit, and... why not trump too. Fits their lying a@@ narrative and the FACTS of the FRAUD they committed.

Stacey “Jemima” Abrams-— the whale from Yale, and her CORRUPT crew of Atlanta based LEFTISTS are at it again. Focus is Fulton County... again. And the same Chi-dems and Chi-Rinos are in cahoots to divide the state.

But NOT Herschel Walker— who will kick Warnocks a@@ right out. Next up— that Bolshie a@@hole Ossoff, whom Stayyycey hepped.

[rlmorel]

I hope to God they haven’t heard of it...bring it!

[Red Badger]

They must have really stupid lawyers....................

[wbarmy]

strangers twice attempted to push into her home to “make a citizens’ arrest,”

Baloney. That story would have been broadcast over every airwave imaginable to prove the hate crimes of the right. There would have been twitter feeds showing the faces of the evil people that did such a thing constantly. I do not remember ever hearing or seeing that story.