Donald Trump's Repeated Attacks on Mother and Daughter Could Be His Undoing

Donald Trump has continued to target two Black election workers even after they were the subject of "vile and racist" threats from his supporters, a prosecutor has filed in court.

Trump listed one of them as being among the "monsters" who had stolen the 2020 election and "doubled down" on his attacks after the pair testified before the January 6 committee, the court filings show.

Mother and daughter, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss were falsely accused of using suitcases of ballots to add votes for President Joe Biden at an Atlanta voting center during the 2020 presidential election.

The prosecutor's filing shows for the first time that prosecutors intend to introduce evidence about Freeman and Moss into the Trump election fraud trial.

Allegations that Trump's comments prompted racist abuse could be bad news for the former president. His trial will be before a jury in Washington, D.C.

Prosecutors filed the allegation of online abuse against Trump on Tuesday. As part of the pre-trial process, prosecutors must submit the crimes and "bad acts" for which an accused has not been charged, but which prosecutors intend to use in court to back up their case.

"Long after the charged conduct, the defendant continued to falsely attack two Georgia election workers, despite being on notice that his claims about them in 2020 were false and had subjected them to vile, racist, and violent threats and harassment," Senior Assistant Special Counsel Molly Gaston wrote in a nine-page court filing on Tuesday.

The submission was made to Tanya Chutkan, the Washington D.C. judge in Trump's fraud trial, which is due to begin in March 2024.

In her submission, Gaston said Freeman and Moss gave "graphic testimony" to the January 6 committee "about the threats and harassment they endured after the defendant and his agents falsely accused them."

"In apparent response, the defendant then doubled down and recommenced his attacks on the election workers in posts on Truth Social," Gaston wrote. "He even zeroed in on one of the election workers, falsely writing that she was an election fraudster, a liar, and one of the 'treacher[ous...]monsters' who stole the country, and that she would be in legal trouble."

In Tuesday's filing, prosecutors said that Trump had a long history of "falsely blaming fraud for election results he does not like."

"During the 2016 presidential campaign, the defendant claimed repeatedly, with no basis, that there was widespread voter fraud—including through public statements and tweets," Gaston added.

In a response statement, a spokesman for Trump, Steven Cheung, said: "Crooked Joe Biden, Deranged Jack Smith, and the rest of the hacks and thugs attempting to interfere in the 2024 election are getting so desperate to attack President Trump that they are perverting justice by trying to include claims that weren't anywhere to be found in their dreamt-up, fake indictment. President Trump will not be deterred."

The former president is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one's vote counted, and for trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

A Georgia judge has already found that onetime Trump attorney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had defamed Freeman and Moss. On December 4, she ruled that a jury will decide damages in the case.

Giuliani had falsely claimed that video footage showed Freeman and Moss engaging in "surreptitious illegal activity" and acting suspiciously, like drug dealers "passing out dope."

In early January 2021, Trump named Freeman 18 times during a phone call in which he tried to convince Georgia officials to change the state's results—a call that is at the center of the fraud trial.

During the call, he allegedly referred to Freeman as a "professional vote scammer," a "hustler" and a "known political operative" who "stuffed the ballot boxes."

Trump supporters later threatened Moss' teenage son by phone in tirades laced with racial slurs, said her supervisor, then Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron.

Newsweek sought email comment from Trump's attorney and Barron on Wednesday.