CNN’s Dana Bash Says Giuliani and Trump Unleashed Campaign of ‘Racist Terror’ on GA Election Workers

Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani ran a campaign of “racist terror” against two Georgia election workers, a packed CNN panel concluded following Tuesday’s congressional testimonies regarding the January 6 Capitol riot and the election fraud claims pushed beforehand.

The last two to give testimonies to the subcommittee were former Georgia election workers Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, both of whom said they faced threats and harassment in the wake of the election, especially after Giuliani pushed a video where he claimed the two were part of an election conspiracy. Giuliani said the two were passing a USB drive containing fraudulent votes, but Moss testified it was a ginger mint on Tuesday. Giuliani compared the pass-off to drugs being handed off.

“An upsetting and distressing day of testimony today, hearing the personal stories of election officials from Georgia and Arizona whose lives were upended by Donald Trump, by his minions, by his mobs, and by his election lies,” Jake Tapper said in reaction.

CNN senior legal correspondent Abby Phillip added the “threats and harassment” detailed by the women showed a “campaign of terror” from the president and his allies.

Dana Bash added to this point, calling it a campaign of “racist terror” against the two Black women.

“It’s not just plain old terror with the two of them,” she said. “It was racist terror. The kind of language that people, including the former president, were using about her, it wasn’t even thinly veiled.”

The panel cited the drug reference and the women being referred to as “hustlers” as examples of the racist nature to the attacks.

John King then called election workers the “backbone of democracy,” praise the rest of the panel joined in on, including Tapper, who referred to them as the “guardians of democracy.”

It’s that you have here in Shaye Moss and Lady Ruby, two women who are literally protecting democracy. They are — they are the guardians of democracy and it is not just that House Republicans and Denate Republicans, with a few notable exceptions [Adam] Kinzinger and [Liz]Cheney and a few others, not just that they’re not equal to them, they’re on the other side. These women are protecting democracy. Most House Republicans, either through complicity or silence or active participation, are actually trying to undermine democracy.

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