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Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks to reporters as he leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, DC.
  • Ruby Freeman, a Georgia poll worker who Rudy Giuliani defamed, testified at her trial Wednesday.
  • She described the torrent of racist threats and harassment she received following his false claims.
  • One person hoped she and her daughter would hang from the Capitol and said "I pray that I will be close enough to hear your necks snap."

In the weeks after the 2020 election, Ruby Freeman feared for her life.

The grandmother, clothing boutique owner, and Fulton County election worker had been thrown into a vortex of false conspiracy theories pushed by Donald Trump's presidential campaign, which falsely claimed that he, and not now-President Joe Biden, won.