Trump 'doubled down' on attacking defamed election workers despite warnings: prosecutors

Court filings from prosecutors this week show Donald Trump has continued to target two Black election workers — even after they endured threats from his supporters — accusing them of being among the "monsters" who had stolen the 2020 election, Newsweek reported.

Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, who are mother and daughter, were falsely accused by Trump and his allies of bringing in suitcases of ballots to an Atlanta voting center to ensure Joe Biden's win. Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been found liable of defaming the pair by making the comments.

Prosecutors have said that Trump's repeated attacks on the pair prompted a wave of racist abuse — a development that Newsweek's report contends could be Trump's undoing.

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"Long after the charged conduct, [Trump] continued to falsely attack two Georgia election workers, despite being on notice that his claims about them in 2020 were false and had subjected them to vile, racist, and violent threats and harassment," Senior Assistant Special Counsel Molly Gaston wrote in the nine-page filing presented to the court Tuesday.

Gaston said Freeman and Moss gave "graphic testimony" to the Jan. 6 committee "about the threats and harassment they endured after the defendant and his agents falsely accused them."

"In apparent response, the defendant then doubled down and recommenced his attacks on the election workers in posts on Truth Social," Gaston wrote. "He even zeroed in on one of the election workers, falsely writing that she was an election fraudster, a liar, and one of the 'treacher[ous...]monsters' who stole the country, and that she would be in legal trouble."

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