Final week, President Joe Biden awarded Shaye and Freeman Presidential Citizen Medals, honoring them together with different election officers and legislation enforcement officers for his or her “contributions to our democracy” previous to and through the Jan. 6 riot.
“Regardless of all of it, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss discovered the braveness to testify overtly and truthfully for the entire nation and the world about their expertise to set the report straight concerning the lies and defend the integrity of our elections,” Biden said. “Ruby and Shaye, you don’t deserve what occurred to you, however you do deserve the nation’s everlasting thanks for displaying the dignity and charm of We the Folks. [It’s] presumptuous of me, however I’m so happy with you each.”
Trump’s response to the ladies’s awards was vicious, arguing that Freeman might lose or must return her medal.
“Ruby, her daughter, and the others who ran again into the counting room, grabbing the instances from underneath the ‘skirted’ desk, after which again to their counting machines the place they got here from previous to listening to ‘water predominant break’ (which by no means occurred) have gotten a variety of explaining to do. I predict that this medal, at a minimal, will sometime be withdrawn,” Trump posted.
If you happen to’re questioning why Trump even cares concerning the awards and is again on the assault after so many months, properly, on Monday the Fulton County, Georgia, particular grand jury concluded its report investigating the twice-impeached president for potential election crimes in 2020.
Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote Monday that the 26-member group was convened for an investigation into “‘the information and circumstances relating instantly or not directly to potential makes an attempt to disrupt the lawful administration of the 2020 elections within the State of Georgia’ and to arrange a report on whether or not anybody ought to be prosecuted for such potential crimes.”
The following step is a listening to set for Jan. 24, the place the Fulton District Legal professional’s workplace, media, and people named within the investigation will resolve whether or not the report ought to be made public, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. The choice to press expenses on the case resides with Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis, who must present proof earlier than one other common grand jury.
Shaye and Freeman appeared earlier than the Jan. 6 committee in June 2022 to provide testimony about how Trump and Giuliani’s ubiquitous lies impacted their lives.
The 2 Georgia election staff had been pushed from their properties, threatened on social media, and had been left feeling afraid to exit into public. Throughout their testimony, Freeman revealed that Trevian Kutti, recognized as Kanye West’s publicist, got here to Freeman’s house, recognized herself as a “disaster supervisor,” and threatened Freeman, urging her to admit to her role in alleged election fraud or face jail time inside 48 hours. Even Moss’ grandmother was caught up in the fray, menaced by Trump supporters and the online of lies created by Trump and Giuliani.
“It was simply a variety of horrible issues there,” Moss advised the Home choose committee, including that most of the social media feedback directed on the girls “had been racist” and “hateful.”
Trump’s newest bombardment is little question associated to the Fulton County investigation and attempting all the pieces in his energy to distance himself from his personal election crimes and towards the invented boogeyman of the Massive Lie.
