1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay Ruby Freeman and 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Shay Moss, the election workers that he and Donald Trump 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: baselessly maligned as having tampered with votes during the twenty 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: twenty election in Georgia almost fifty million dollars. And because 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: he just can't help himself. During the court proceedings, Juliani 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: would still go outside the courtroom and continue to lie 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 1: and say that these two women tampered with votes, even 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: while his attorney was inside the court conceding that there 9 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: was no proof of any of this. He even went 10 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: on Newsmax and continued to say that he had video 11 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: proof that these women were involved in vote tampering. Now, 12 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: Ruby and Shay's attorneys have already filed another injunction for 13 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: these ongoing statements, meaning they very well could sue him 14 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: again and win again if he doesn't knock it off. Honestly, 15 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: I hope they take him for every cent that he's worth, 16 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: because his behavior really turned their lives upside down and 17 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: put them in danger. For folks who haven't heard it, 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: their testimony in the January sixth committee was among the 19 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: most moving that I heard, and we really need to 20 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: understand how misogyny, racism, and lies, all intermingled to put 21 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: their lives at risk. This doesn't just hurt women like 22 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: Ruby and Shay who are targeted attacks on election workers 23 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,199 Speaker 1: and poll counters. The women who make our democracy work, 24 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: and it is overwhelmingly women make us all less safe. 25 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: So listen to our breakdown of their testimony from last 26 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 1: year's January sixth committee. There Are No Girls on the Internet. 27 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: As a production of iHeartRadio and Unbossed Creative, I'm brigittat 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: and this is there are No Girls on the Internet. 29 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: So here in the United States, we're on day four 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: of hearings around the deadly January sixth insurrection, where Trump 31 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: supporters storm the Capitol believing Trump's repeated lies that the 32 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two presidential election had been stolen from him 33 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: and that he was the actual winner. I obviously don't 34 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: feel like I need to tell you that that was 35 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: complete bullshit, and it really goes to show the power 36 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: and danger that can happen when lies and disinformation are weaponized. 37 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: People died. Now in that hearing, we heard the testimony 38 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: of Ruby and Shae Freeman, and it really broke me, 39 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: and I think it's important for everyone to hear in 40 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: their own words how their livelihoods and safety were jeopardized 41 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: by racist, sexist lies. So if you don't know, sixty 42 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: two year old Ruby and her daughter, Shae Freeman were 43 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 1: both election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, a state where 44 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: Trump legitimately lost and where he would go on to 45 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: pressure Georgia's Secretary of State to quote fine votes for him. 46 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: In an attempt to cast doubt on the election, Trump 47 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: and his henchman Rudy Giuliani repeatedly named Ruby and Shay, 48 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 1: both of whom are black women, as specific election workers 49 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 1: who were rigging the election in favor of Biden. Now, 50 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: this was an outright lie based on nothing, and it 51 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: basically destroyed their lives. Trump and his allies obtained video 52 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: of the women and baselessly lied about those videos, saying 53 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: they showed evidence of the women vote hampering. In one video, 54 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: Trump and Juliani claimed the women carried suitcases with as 55 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: many as eighteen thousand ballots, all for Joe Biden. Complete bullshit. 56 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: There aren't even suitcases in the video. They were just 57 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: the normal boxes that ballots are kept and moved in. 58 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: Trump also said that video of the women counting vote 59 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: that the state farm arena showed. The fraudulent processing of 60 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: ballots also bullshit. State officials repeatedly cleared the women and 61 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: all election workers of any mishandling of votes, complete nonsense. 62 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: But none of this stopped Trump and his croonies from 63 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: putting these women in real danger by repeatedly lying about it. 64 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: And we need to be really open about the ways 65 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: that they specifically used racism and misogyny to fuel this attack. 66 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: I don't think these lies would have worked in the 67 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: same way had Ruby and her daughter not been black women, 68 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: who we know are disproportionately harmed by disinformation and online harassment. 69 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: Just listen to what Juliani said about the women and 70 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: tell me it is not a racist line of attack. 71 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 2: Tay earlier in the day of Ruby Freeman and Shay 72 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 2: Freeman Laws and one other gentleman obviously surreptitiously passing around 73 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 2: us be ports as if they are vials of heroin 74 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 2: or cocaine. I mean, it's it's obvious to anyone who's 75 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 2: a criminal investigator or prosecutor they are engaged in surreptitious 76 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:18,159 Speaker 2: the illegal activity. Again that day and after a week 77 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: ago and they're still walking around Georgia. Why should have 78 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 2: been they should have been uh should have been. 79 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 3: Questioned already, h there are places of work, their homes 80 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 3: should have been searched for evidence of ballance, evidence of 81 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 3: us v poorts, for evidence of voter fraud. 82 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: So Juliani accuses the women of passing votes on a 83 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: USB drive back and forth, which already like what but 84 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: in reality. 85 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,679 Speaker 4: What was your mom actually handing you on that video? 86 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 5: Ginger man. 87 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: Trump also accused the women of vote tampering, basically attacking 88 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: them by first and last name. 89 00:04:58,880 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 5: We had. 90 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 6: At least eighteen thousand, that's saw on pay We had 91 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 6: him counted very thankstakingly, eighteen thousand voters having to do 92 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 6: with the Ruby Freeman, that she's a vote scammer, a 93 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 6: professional vote scammer and hustler. 94 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what I think people are not saying 95 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 1: clear enough. I think that Trump and Giuliani just saw 96 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: video of two black women in Georgia and knew that 97 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: they could say that those black women were the culprits, 98 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,479 Speaker 1: that those black women were liars, and those black women 99 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: were the reason that Trump lost the election, the same 100 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: way that Trump has repeatedly attacked black women like White 101 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: House correspondent April Ryan. I think that he knew that 102 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: his base would be poised and ready to believe it 103 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,679 Speaker 1: because they have a visceral hate and distrust and disdain 104 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: for black women, and that they would be ready to 105 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: believe that the visual of black women working at a 106 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: Georgia polling place would be proof to convince them that 107 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: something shady was going on. They basically just said to 108 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: their racist supporters, hey, look at this video. It shows 109 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: that black women were involved in the vote counting process 110 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: in Georgia, and that should be evidence enough that the 111 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: election was rigged. His attacks really weaponized their identities against 112 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: them and relies on tropes about black women being untrustworthy, 113 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: which we see time and time again with disinformation and 114 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: online harassment. This led to a flood of racist death 115 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: threats and harassment against Ruby and Shay, at first, mostly 116 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: centralized around Facebook Messenger. Here's Shay's testimony. 117 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 5: So I'm just ask him, like, where are the messages? 118 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 5: All I see is the fees, Like how do you 119 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 5: get to the messages? And he said, it's another icon 120 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 5: on your phone that says messenger. And I went to 121 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 5: that icon and it was just a lot of horrible. 122 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 4: Things there, and those horrible things that they include threats. 123 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 5: Yes, a lot of threats, wishing deaths upon me, telling 124 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,239 Speaker 5: me that you know, I'll be in jail with my mother, 125 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 5: and and saying things like be glad it's twenty twenty 126 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 5: and not nineteen twenty. 127 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: So obviously saying you'll be glad it's twenty twenty and 128 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: not nineteen twenty, it's a reference to her being lynched 129 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 1: and killed, which is just disgusting, and Shay's testimony about 130 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: how she felt is really heartbreaking. 131 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 5: I felt horrible. I felt like it was all my fault, 132 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 5: Like if I would have never decided to be an 133 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 5: elections worker, like I could have done anything else, but 134 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 5: that's what I decided to do. And now people are 135 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 5: lying and spreading rumors and lies and attacking my mom. 136 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 5: I'm her only child, going to my grandmother's house. I'm 137 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 5: her only grandchild and my kid. It's just I felt 138 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 5: so bad. I felt bad for my mom, and I 139 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 5: felt horrible for picking this job and being the one 140 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 5: that always wants to help and always there, never missing 141 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 5: out one election. I just felt like it was my fault. 142 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 5: I'm putting my family in this situation. 143 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: She's mom. Ruby describes how she was always so proud 144 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: of her nickname Lady Ruby, and how as a business 145 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: owner and community staple in Georgia, everybody knew her as 146 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: Lady Ruby. She even had a staple shirt with Lady 147 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: Ruby but dazzled on it that she wore all the time. 148 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: But because of Trump at his camp's lives, she no 149 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: longer even uses her name because it doesn't feel safe. 150 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: She said, she hasn't worn that shirt since twenty twenty. 151 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 7: Now I won't even introduce my self by my name anymore. 152 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 7: I get nervous when I bump into someone I know 153 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 7: in the grocery store who says my name. I'm worried 154 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 7: about who's listening. I get nervous when I have to 155 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 7: give my name for food orders. I'm always concerned of 156 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 7: who's around me. I've lost my name and I've lost 157 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 7: my reputation. I've lost my sense of security, all because 158 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 7: a group of people, starting with number forty five and 159 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 7: his ally Rudy Giuliani, decided to escape goat me and 160 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 7: my daughter to Shay to push their own lives about 161 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 7: how the presidential election was stolen. 162 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 1: Shane Ruby once pillars of their community have basically been 163 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 1: resigned to a life of hiding for their own safety. 164 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 4: Is Moss, How is this experience of being targeted by 165 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 4: the former president and his allies affected your life? 166 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 5: It's started my life upside down. I no longer give 167 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 5: out my business card, I don't transfer calls. I don't 168 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 5: want anyone knowing my name. I don't want to go 169 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 5: anywhere with my mom because she might yell my name 170 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 5: out over the grocery al or something. I don't go 171 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 5: to the grocery store at all. I haven't been anywhere. 172 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 8: At all. Let's hit a quick break at her back. 173 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: Now, this detail didn't come up on the hearing at all, 174 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 1: but I wanted to talk about it because I think 175 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: it adds some important, if not totally what the fuck context. 176 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: In addition to the mixed bag of Trump Crooney's who 177 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: you've probably heard about, Ruby and Shay were also being 178 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: harassed and threatened by a woman named Trevannie Coody. Trevanni 179 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: was formerly a publicist for the R and B singer 180 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: slash convicted sex criminal r Kelly. So yeah, it sure 181 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: seems like she really knows how to pick men to 182 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: associate herself with. Trevanni claims to have had some kind 183 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: of association with rapper Kanye West, who you may recall, 184 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: ran for president himself alongside Trump in twenty twenty before 185 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: becoming a vocal Trump supporter. According to NBC News, a 186 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: biography of Trevanni posted on the website of the Women's 187 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 1: Global Initiative, a business networking conference, identified her as a 188 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,320 Speaker 1: member of the quote Young Black Leadership Council under President 189 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and that same biography noted that in September 190 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, she quote was secured as a publicist 191 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: to Kanye West and now serves as West's director of Operations. Now, 192 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: I should also say that Kanye West's camp says that 193 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: Trevanni was not associated with them. Here's a statement they released. 194 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: Trevanni Cooty was not associated with Kanye West or any 195 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: of his enterprises at the time of the facts that 196 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: are reported in these articles, or since these facts occurred 197 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: in any event. When Trevanni showed up at Shay and 198 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: Ruby's door, the women understandably were pretty freaked out, and 199 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: they called police to be present for the conversation. Trevanni 200 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: told them that she was visiting at the direction of 201 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 1: a quote high profile individual who warned that if the 202 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: women did not confess to voter fraud allegations, they would 203 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: be arrested after forty eight hours. So if that's not enough, 204 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 1: this is where it gets really weird. According to Rolling Stone, 205 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: the police bodycam footage of the conversation showed Trevanni telling 206 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: the women, quote, I cannot tell you specifically what will 207 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 1: take place. I just know that it will disrupt your 208 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: freedom and the freedom of one or more of your 209 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: family members. You are a loose end for a party 210 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: that needs to tidy up. Kutie then put a man 211 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: called Harrison Ford on speakerphone, who said that he could 212 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: offer the women protection. You're probably wondering, is it that 213 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,839 Speaker 1: Harrison Ford from Indiana Jones and Star Wars I was 214 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: thinking the same thing. 215 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 8: No, it is not. 216 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: But according to the bodycam audio, the man told the women, 217 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: if she confessed to voter fraud, he would offer her 218 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: legal protection, but if she declined, she would go to jail. 219 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: So Ruby and Shay obviously did not believe this woman, 220 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: but later, because of the web of lies that the 221 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: Trump Machine's bread about them, Trump supporters did show up 222 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: to their home. Back to Ruby's testimony, around. 223 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 7: The week of January sixth, the FBI informed me that 224 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 7: I needed to leave my home for safety and I. 225 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 8: Love my home for safety around that time. 226 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 1: So they had to flee their home for their own safety, 227 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: which is bad enough, but here's where it gets even scarier. 228 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: Trump supporters actually tried to break into Shade's grandmother's home 229 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: to make a quote citizen's arrest. 230 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 5: I received a call from my grandmother. This woman is 231 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 5: my everything. I've never even heard her or seen her 232 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 5: cry ever in my life. And she called me, screaming 233 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 5: at the top of her lungs, like shame, oh my god, Shane, 234 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 5: just freaking me out, saying that there are people at 235 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 5: her home and they, you know, they knocked on the door, 236 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 5: and of course she opened it and seeing who was there, 237 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 5: who it was, and they just started pushing their way through, 238 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 5: claiming that they were coming in to make a citizen's arrest. 239 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 8: They needed to. 240 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 5: Find me and my mom. They knew were there, and 241 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 5: she was just screaming and didn't know what to do, 242 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 5: and I wasn't there, so, you know, I just felt 243 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 5: so helpless and so horrible for her. 244 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: I honestly cannot even imagine how terrifying it must have 245 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: been to have an angry, potentially armed mob of Trump 246 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: supporters show up at your elderly grandmother's home and try 247 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 1: to force their way in all of this because Trump 248 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: and his allies repeatedly lied, these lives were fueled by 249 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: hatred and distrust of black women. Now people are calling 250 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: Ruby and Shay heroes. You know, they serve their community 251 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: during a pandemic, and the president put their lives at 252 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: risk because of it, and even in testifying and speaking 253 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: up about what they experienced, they're sure to be even 254 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: more risk. So what they did is indeed heroic. But 255 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: here's the thing. Black women shouldn't have to be put 256 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: in such great danger for a country that is weaponized 257 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: against them. Shay says that every single election worker that 258 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: she worked with at the polling center in twenty twenty 259 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: in Georgia has now quit, And honestly, I don't blame 260 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: them who would want to open themselves up to these 261 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: kinds of harassment and attacks for just trying to serve 262 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: the public and do their jobs. Ruby and Shay have 263 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: sued the right wing website The Gateway Pundit and its 264 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: owners for defamation for publishing stories that quote instigated a 265 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: deluge of harassment, intimidation, and threats and force them to 266 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear 267 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: for their physical safety. And they also settled a suit 268 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: with one American news network. And honestly, I hope they 269 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: get every last dime of these people's money, but no 270 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: amount of money can make right what happened to them. 271 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: I think Lady Ruby really puts it best. 272 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 7: There is nowhere I feel safe nowhere. Do you know 273 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 7: how it feels to have the President of the United 274 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 7: States to target you. The President of the United States 275 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 7: is supposed to represent every American, not to target one, 276 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 7: but he targeted me. Lady Ruby a small business owner, 277 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 7: a mother, a proud American citizen who stand up to 278 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 7: help Fulton County run an election in the middle of 279 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 7: the pandemic. 280 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: If you're looking for ways to support the show, check 281 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: out our March store at tegoty dot com, slash store. 282 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: Got a story about an interesting thing in tech, or 283 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: just want to say hi, You can reach us at 284 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: Hello at tangodi dot com. You can also find transcripts 285 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: for today's episode at teng goody dot com. 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