A publicist for rapper Kanye West showed up at the house of a Georgia election worker in early 2021 to pressure her into making false claims of voter fraud, Reuters reported Friday.
Trevian Kutti, who said she was sent by a “high-profile individual” but did not name West, knocked on the door of election worker Ruby Freeman on Jan. 4 and told Freeman that she “was in danger” and had “48 hours” before “unknown subjects” turned up at her home, according to a police report.
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Freeman, who worked as a temporary election worker during the 2020 election, became a target of Donald Trump supporters who blamed her for Trump’s loss in Georgia. The false claims of election fraud made by Trump’s campaign and right-wing disinformation publication The Gateway Pundit in December 2020 centered around the conspiracy theory that Freeman and her daughter illegally counted mail-in ballots and put them into a suitcase. The alleged “suitcase” was a standard ballot container. Freeman and her daughter did nothing wrong. Trump ultimately lost the election because he got fewer votes. That didn’t stop abuse and threats from pouring in.
When Kutti knocked on the door of the 62-year-old temporary election worker, she offered “help.” Freeman, who was wary of strangers, called the police. Reuters reported:
“They’re saying that I need help,” Freeman told the dispatcher, referring to the people at her door, “that it’s just a matter of time that they are going to come out for me and my family.”...
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