Kanye West publicist pressed Georgia election worker to confess to bogus fraud charges
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Via: hallux • 3 years ago • 4 commentsBy: Jason Szep and Linda So - Reuters
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ATLANTA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Weeks after the 2020 election, a Chicago publicist for hip-hop artist Kanye West traveled to the suburban home of Ruby Freeman, a frightened Georgia election worker who was facing death threats after being falsely accused by former President Donald Trump of manipulating votes. The publicist knocked on the door and offered to help.
The visitor, Trevian Kutti, gave her name but didn’t say she worked for West, a longtime billionaire friend of Trump. She said she was sent by a “high-profile individual,” whom she didn’t identify, to give Freeman an urgent message: confess to Trump’s voter-fraud allegations, or people would come to her home in 48 hours, and she’d go to jail.
Freeman refused. This story of how an associate of a music mogul pressured a 62-year-old temporary election worker at the center of a Trump conspiracy theory is based on previously unreported police recordings and reports, legal filings, and Freeman’s first media interview since she was dragged into Trump’s attempt to reverse his election loss.
Kutti did not respond to requests for comment. Her biography for her work at the Women’s Global Initiative, a business networking group, identifies her as a member of “the Young Black Leadership Council under President Donald Trump.” It notes that in September 2018, she “was secured as publicist …
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Nothing to see here folks, all the 'real' stuff can be found in Friday’s ‘own the left’ seeds.
Also a 'fun' read:
Two election workers break silence after enduring Trump backers' threats
I hope the maga vermin rolls over on her boss.
By now she may have become a travel agent in Belarus.
Ah yes, the right-wing patriots and their unlimited knowledge of the US Constitution. /s