After Judge Eagles’ decision to deny the Stein campaign’s request for a preliminary injunction, today the North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) delivered a letter to Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman requesting a prompt and thorough investigation and prosecution of Jim O’Neill for making false and derogatory reports during his 2020 campaign for Attorney General.

NCDP spokesperson Kate Frauenfelder released the following statement:

“Judge Eagles’ reversal yesterday makes clear that District Attorney Freeman should apply equal protection under the law and open an investigation into Jim O’Neill’s repeated efforts to spread knowingly false and derogatory reports against Attorney General Stein with the intent to hurt his reelection campaign. North Carolina’s sexual assault survivors have a champion in Attorney General Stein and any attempt to imply otherwise is a distraction from the important work that he is leading on behalf of our state.”

Over the course of his 2020 campaign, Jim O’Neill circulated false and derogatory claims against his opponent Attorney General Josh Stein’s exemplary record tackling the backlog of sexual assault kits with reckless disregard for the truth, doubling and tripling down on his claims despite multiple fact checks.

• On October 7, 2019, Mr. O’Neill issued a statement on Twitter falsely claiming that Attorney General Stein “has stood on the sidelines for almost his entire term while more than 15,000 untested rape kits have sat on the...

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