If the lunacy and antipathy that followed the 2020 election in Georgia was pitched as a movie script five years ago, the narrative would have been laughed out of the screenwriters’ room. Too unbelievable.
A 911 call to Cobb County police captured her terror. “Last night after 9 someone was bamming on the door; now someone’s bamming on the door again,” she told the operator. “Oh, they’re screaming. . . . Lord Jesus, where’s the police?”
Freeman was one of the employees who appeared in videos with the infamous “suitcases” full of illegal ballots that were being counted at Fulton’s elections operation at the State Farm Center. The contention that fraudulent votes were being manufactured there was quickly discounted by state officials. But that did not deter the tin foil hat crowd, nor its leader, President Donald Trump, from regurgitating the conspiracy of corruption over and over.
In fact, Trump even mentioned Freeman by name 18 times in his phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger earlier this year, the call where he wanted to “find 11,780 votes.” Trump referred to Freeman as a “hustler” and “professional vote scammer” who “stuffed the ballot boxes.”
Imagine, the Leader of the Free World taking his time to denigrate a grandmother making $16 an hour. But this is where we are.
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