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Georgia election workers suing conspiracy website [The Gateway Pundit] over ‘campaign of lies’
NBC News ^ | December 2, 2021 | Ben Collins

Posted on 12/02/2021 9:23:41 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: audit; bidenlovershatehoft; bidenskeywordtrolls; chickenshometoroost; freedomofthepress; freeman; ga; openandnotorious; ruby; rubyfreeman; shayemoss; thegeorgiasteal; votefraud
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1 posted on 12/02/2021 9:23:41 AM PST by Coronal
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To: Coronal
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...............

2 posted on 12/02/2021 9:25:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Coronal

Can you say “Discovery”?

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


3 posted on 12/02/2021 9:26:30 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Coronal

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


4 posted on 12/02/2021 9:28:25 AM PST by jimjohn (...like Donkey Kong.)
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To: Coronal

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.


5 posted on 12/02/2021 9:28:51 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Red Badger

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...


6 posted on 12/02/2021 9:29:09 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: Coronal

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?


7 posted on 12/02/2021 9:30:35 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: Coronal

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


8 posted on 12/02/2021 9:30:42 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Coronal

How does NBC know it’s false information?


9 posted on 12/02/2021 9:31:24 AM PST by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: Coronal

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


10 posted on 12/02/2021 9:33:47 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

That’s pretty good.


11 posted on 12/02/2021 9:35:33 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Coronal

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


12 posted on 12/02/2021 9:37:09 AM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: rlmorel

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


13 posted on 12/02/2021 9:41:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: tennmountainman

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


14 posted on 12/02/2021 9:41:49 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: Coronal
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.

15 posted on 12/02/2021 9:44:15 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: ConservativeInPA

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


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


16 posted on 12/02/2021 9:44:37 AM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Coronal

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.


17 posted on 12/02/2021 9:48:17 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Red Badger

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


18 posted on 12/02/2021 9:49:33 AM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: rlmorel

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


19 posted on 12/02/2021 9:52:29 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Coronal
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.
20 posted on 12/02/2021 9:53:21 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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