Lady Ruby

I watched about three hours of the Jan 6th Insurrection Hearings today and they were emotionally devastating to me. Three of the people giving testimony today were Republican state election officials that were pressured by Trump and his team to essentially make his coup possible. They were heroes who put the nation ahead of their party and the lying obsession of one man enabled by his stooges. However, the most powerful testimony came from two black election workers that actually brought tears to my eyes. 

The two women were mother and daughter. The daughter worked as an election worker and her mother was a small business owner who was volunteering for the election. The mother went by the name Lady Ruby at her business. The daughter was Shaye Moss. Both were falsely accused of wrongdoing by then President Trump himself and he continued to make those false accusations long after his lies were proven false by Republican government officials. His relentless lies about them and his constant using social media in provoking his followers to harass these women and their families. The daughter described how she loved to help the older people in her Atlanta neighborhood to vote and how her grandmother and her generation of older black people did not have the right to vote in the South. Trump and his cronies were going after black voters and their blatant racism in their attacks on these women was painfully obvious. Perhaps the worse thing I heard today was the testimony that the grandmother's home was attacked by trump supporter trying to make a citizen's arrest of the mother and daughter for treason.

Another bit of shocking testimony was not only the online and phone harassment of local government officials and election workers was the trump supporters marching on people's homes and workplaces and acting like nazi brownshirts. 

I can't understand why trump is not watching these hearings from his prison cell.