Two election workers for the Georgia state election filed lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and the right-wing news network One America News.
The lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by mother and daughter Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss. They said that they filed the suit because they have become the targets of vast harassment, threats, and vitriol.
The One America News owners Robert and Charles Herring, as well as a network reporter, Chanel Rion, are specifically cited as defendants alongside Giuliani, who was former president Donald Trump’s attorney, confidant and advisor.
They say that the individuals assassinated their character, and alleges that the news network brought forth a “concerted effort” to accuse the two of committing ballot fraud to “steal” the 2020 presidential election, even though they all well knew that the claims were completely false and baseless.
The lawsuit says that One America News has spent the past full year accusing the two of engaging in illegal election fraud, alongside additional false allegations. Within the campaign to smear their characters conducted by One America News, the network would repeatedly turn to Giuliani to make the same comments about them. They said that Giuliani was an original and central orchestrator of the conspiracy theory that the presidential election was rigged in 2020.
The lawsuit also specifically notes that the Trump campaign drew attention to and retweeted One America News video footage that claimed election workers were illegally instructing observers to leave, and that they counted ballots with no observation. These claims have been continuously rebutted and refuted by the state Voting Implementation Manager and Georgia’s Secretary of State. Despite this, the network continued to push the claims, and Giuliani also did so in his own channels and on his podcast.
Giuliani was previously suspended in both New York and Washington from practicing law, following his actions in the lead up to the violent insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
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