He couldn’t make the microphone in front of him work. At first she struggled to find the words to express herself.
But while the former Georgia election official revealed her story that she was unfairly directed by then-President Donald Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to the House of Representatives election commission investigating Jan. 6 on Tuesday, she became the only most powerful a witness who appeared at these public hearings. so far.
Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, worked in relative anonymity in Fulton County, while without warning, Giuliani and Trump clung to the idea that they had somehow acted in evidence of stolen Democrat votes in the 2020 election.
Trump called Freeman a “professional voice cheat” and a “cheat.” Giuliani said Moss and Freeman went around USB ports like “cocaine or heroin bottles.” (Moss told Tuesday’s hearing that her mother gave her “ginger mint” instead of a USB device.)
Following these false and racist accusations, Moss described in detail how people tried to break into her grandmother’s house and how Trump supporters were villains against her and her mother. Her mother, known as “Lady Ruby,” said she was no longer She likes to be called that.) Moss said of the threats she received: “Many of them were racist. Many of them were just hateful.”
“I didn’t go anywhere at all,” she said through tears.
Her testimony led to a powerful point that is all too often lost when talking about the logistics of who knew what and when on January 6: The lies told by the former president and his ilk had real – and deeply negative – effects on people who were in fact innocent observers.
The point: Moss’s life – and that of her mother – is invariably changing because of Trump’s reluctance to accept that he has lost an election. And that’s a hell of a shame.
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