In Giuliani defamation trial, Ruby Freeman says she received hundreds of racist messages after she was targeted online

Washington — Ruby Freeman, one of the Georgia women at the center of a conspiracy theory alleging widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election, testified that she received hundreds of racist and threatening messages saying things like "we know where you sleep" and "you are dead" after she said former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani spread lies about her online.    

Freeman took the witness stand Wednesday in her civil defamation trial against Giuliani and testified that she received phone calls, emails, messages and letters at her home in the months after the presidential election. Freeman said almost a dozen people even came to her home looking for her, calling for her with bullhorns.

"This just all started with one tweet," she said tearfully. "They messed up my name. They messed up my business."