2 Georgia election workers sue Giuliani and One America News, claim election lies prompted severe harassment

(CNN) — Two Georgia predetermination workers are accusing right-wing TV web One America News and erstwhile Trump lawyer and pundit Rudy Giuliani of destroying their reputations and prompting Trump supporters to harass them — filling their lives with fearfulness — due to the fact that of mendacious claims of predetermination fraud successful 2020.

The predetermination workers, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, accidental successful a caller suit that they became the victims of governmental lies arsenic the pro-Trump media universe spread accusations that they had miscounted ballots during the statesmanlike ballot number successful Georgia.

President Joe Biden won Georgia narrowly against Trump, based connected 3 counts of ballots, and nary wide fraud was recovered successful immoderate authorities successful the 2020 statesmanlike election.

In her complaint, Freeman said that due to the fact that of the predetermination fraud accusations, the FBI advised her to permission her location from Jan. 6, erstwhile a mob surrounded it, done the statesmanlike inauguration aboriginal that month. She received hundreds of harassing emails, texts and calls — adjacent a Christmas paper that said, “You merit to spell to jail, you worthless portion of sh*t whore.”

Moss claims strangers sent unwanted pizzas to her grandmother’s location to harass her and came to the location doubly to effort to marque a “citizen’s arrest.”

“Both women are acrophobic to unrecorded mean lives,” the suit says. “Ms. Freeman is fearful erstwhile she hears her sanction called successful public; Ms. Moss present fears risking adjacent a sojourn to the market store and indispensable get her groceries delivered instead. Defendants person inflicted, and proceed to inflict, terrible and ongoing affectional and economical damage.”

Giuliani is named successful the suit due to the fact that of his predominant appearances connected OAN aft the predetermination and due to the fact that of segments connected his podcast, wherever helium raised conspiracy theories of wide fraud successful the Georgia predetermination and accused Freeman of past elector fraud. The predetermination workers are besides suing the network’s White House analogous Chanel Rion and its owners Robert and Charles Herring.

A lawyer for Giuliani didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment, but the erstwhile authoritative and New York City politician antecedently called specified lawsuits against him left-wing intimidation. Giuliani has been suspended from practicing law because of mendacious and misleading statements helium made successful tribunal besides claiming predetermination fraud.

OAN did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

OAN and Giuliani are already facing different large lawsuits from the elections bundle institution Dominion Voting Systems that question billions of dollars successful damages, and the caller suit signifies the compounding imaginable fallout for Trump’s adjacent allies aft the election.

On broadcasts, OAN repeatedly suggested Freeman and Moss had illegally counted ballots, aft the Trump run circulated edited information camera footage of them counting absentee and subject ballots successful an arena successful Fulton County, according to their lawsuit.

Trump besides called Freeman a “professional ballot scammer and hustler” connected the now-infamous telephone telephone helium made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger connected Jan. 2 asking the authoritative to “find” him votes, the suit notes.

Trump and his run are not defendants successful the lawsuit.

“Though the archetypal claims by the Trump run squad were based lone connected abbreviated selections of the Trump Edited Video and did not sanction immoderate idiosyncratic Fulton County predetermination workers, OAN and Giuliani were immoderate of the archetypal and lone outlets and commenters to specifically sanction Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss, and they person continued to bash truthful for much than a year,” the suit says.

A Georgia authorities authoritative besides verified aboriginal successful December 2020 that the women astatine enactment connected the information footage was mean ballot processing.