Opinion: Will Any Republican Leader Stand Up for Ruby Freeman?

Former president Donald Trump did what helium ever does successful times of trouble, attacking a idiosyncratic of color, connected Monday evening with 3 nonsensical screeds astir Ruby Freeman.

Apparently, attacking this Black pistillate yet again failed to connection the alleviation from his dangerously wounded ego, and truthful helium flailed astir and reloaded Wednesday greeting with a caller brace of attacks connected this pistillate who did thing incorrect but number votes that didn’t springiness Trump what helium wanted.

Here is 1 of Trump’s wounded carnal wails, offered with the caveat that helium does these rants knowing they volition beryllium shared and frankincense his lies volition beryllium elevated and slink into the nationalist consciousness. Trump mislaid Georgia just and square. The 2020 predetermination was the astir unafraid predetermination successful U.S. history. Trump’s ain Attorney General and officials successful 50 states recovered nary grounds of wide fraud. Trump ne'er provided grounds of his claims of fraud and his run mislaid their challenges based connected claims of predetermination fraud.

Yet, Trump is unwilling to judge that information adjacent now, truthful helium punches down similar helium ever has. Hence:

The Ruby Freeman tapes that I enactment up connected Truth Social are AMAZING. Now they person been heard and seen each implicit America, unneurotic with the existent enactment of “stuffing the ballot boxes” with acold much votes than needed for me, and Senator Perdue, to triumph GEORGIA. At archetypal she thought that they had been caught, got VERY nervous, and wanted to “spill the beans” connected everyone. Then the SOS, GBI, FBI, calmed her down, helped CLEAN her societal media, took her distant (for 2 months!). SHE THEN CHANGED HER STORY!

None of that happened. What did hap was Trump mislaid the 2020 predetermination by millions of votes.

But still, Ruby Freeman was forced to unopen down her ain tiny concern and fly her location to unrecorded successful an undisclosed determination connected the proposal of the FBI due to the fact that of Trump’s accusations against her aft helium mislaid the 2020 election.

You see, Ruby, a grandmother, volunteered to bash that occupation that citizens crossed America utilized to bash to springiness backmost to their communities: She volunteered to bash the tedious occupation of counting votes.

And those votes did not adhd up to a triumph for Trump, and truthful helium honed successful connected Ruby and her girl Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, attacking them with lies, accusing them without grounds of rigging the November 2020 predetermination for Joe Biden with “suitcases” of ballots.

It got worse. Reuters reported:

Freeman made a bid of 911 exigency calls successful the days aft she was publically identified successful aboriginal December by the president’s camp. In a Dec. 4 call, she told the dispatcher she’d gotten a flood of “threats and telephone calls and radical slurs,” adding: “It’s scary due to the fact that they’re saying worldly like, ‘We’re coming to get you. We are coming to get you.’”

Two days later, a panicked Freeman called 911 again, aft proceeding large banging connected her doorway conscionable earlier 10 p.m. Strangers had travel the nighttime before, too. She begged the dispatcher for assistance. “Lord Jesus, where’s the police?” she asked, according to the recording, obtained by Reuters successful a records request. “I don’t cognize who keeps coming to my door.”

Freeman and Moss were moving the Fulton County election. Fulton County is predominantly Black oregon African American, similar galore of the different areas Trump focused connected with unproven and mendacious accusations of fraud, similar Detroit.

There is an undeniable radical constituent to Trump’s accusations of fraud focusing connected cities with predominantly Black voters. It’s problematic that this is not discussed and accepted much broadly.

Justice Jill Karofsky of the Wisconsin Supreme Court pointed retired that the “[t]wo counties . . . are targeted due to the fact that of their divers populations. Because they’re urban. I presume due to the fact that they ballot Democratic.” Addressing Trump lawyer Jim Troupis, Justice Karofsky said, “This lawsuit, Mr. Troupis, smacks of racism.”

Of course, the antheral who has been a known racist besides utilized racism to canine whistle to his followers who person been primed to judge racist lies astir radical successful predominantly Black cities. Fundamentally, these attacks based connected thing but lies are an effort to disenfranchise radical of color, and the continued attacks connected Ruby Freeman service arsenic a informing to different Black women not to enactment successful the electoral process, lest they besides beryllium accused based connected thing and driven retired of their homes and businesses.

In June of 2022, we learned however Ruby Freeman felt aft these attacks. “Do you cognize however it feels to person the President Of The United States people you?” Ruby Freeman asked.

Trump’s attacks connected Freeman were a portion of a wide Trump run of unit and intimidation of predetermination officials.

This is Trump’s mode of handling ego wounds. He lashes retired and tries to gully blood. Other people’s symptom and fearfulness is the lone salve helium has erstwhile he’s hurt. And close now, helium is hurt. Just the different time helium went truthful acold arsenic to blasted the midterm losses connected Republicans for however they handled the overturning of Roe, successful an effort to constituent retired that helium is not the cause.

That was the uncommon juncture erstwhile the erstwhile president had a point. But helium is incorrect that helium is not portion of the marque occupation facing the Republican Party.

Trump is simply a mislaid origin erstwhile it comes to seeking integrity and decency. However, wherever are the Republicans consenting to basal up for Ruby Freeman? There should beryllium astatine slightest a fewer successful Republican enactment who could find a tendency to adjacent connection a modicum of decency capable to protestation publically against this ongoing battle connected a backstage national successful her 60s.

It’s apt that Freeman volition see litigation, which the Maddow Blog pointed retired would beryllium easier present that Trump is nary longer a sitting president.

The profound deficiency of decency successful Trump’s ongoing attacks connected Ruby Freeman should not beryllium brushed disconnected arsenic much of the same. They are dangerous, we each learned conscionable however unsafe these predetermination lies are connected January 6th and past again with the onslaught connected Paul Pelosi.

Someone successful Republican enactment should beryllium consenting to basal up for an predetermination idiosyncratic who was forced to fly her ain location owed to convulsive threats from their enactment leader. Anyone? Anyone?