Two former Georgia election workers have filed a lawsuit against a far-right-wing conspiracy website, The Gateway Pundit, and its owners. The two women allege that the website and the website’s owners knowingly published false stories about them regarding the 2020 presidential election. The false stories incited an onslaught of harassment and threats from Trump supporters that led the women to fear for their safety.

The two women, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss, name the website and its owners, editor Jim Hoft and his brother Joe Hoft, as being the perpetrators of the smear campaign against them. Moss was a voter registration officer in the Fulton County elections office while her mother worked as a temp during the 2020 election.

The mother and daughter duo allege that the website had singled them out after a video in which they appeared in alleged rampant voter fraud throughout the state was circulated online. The video was touted by former president Trump and his supporters as well. The complaint details that the website and the brothers describe the women as “traitors” who had conspired together to “steal the presidential election in Georgia.” The website went as far as publicly naming Freeman in an article they published titled, “What’s Up, Ruby? Crooked Operative Filmed Pulling Out Suitcases of Ballots in Georgia IS IDENTIFIED.” Another published story identified her daughter Moss by name as well.

The two women explain in their lawsuit that Gateway Pundit and the Hoft brothers launched their attack on them after President Trump shared the misleading video on social media. Trump touted the video as proof that Georgia election poll workers were counting illegal ballots that were stuffed in suitcases, a claim that has since been debunked.

In the now-infamous January 2nd phone call in which Trump tried pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger to find more votes that would swing the count in Trump’s favor, Trump mentioned Freeman by name 18 times. Trump called Freeman a “professional vote scammer” and a “hustler.” Trump also described Freeman as a “known political operative” who had “stuffed the ballots” in Georgia’s election.

At the time, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Guliani also disparaged the mother and daughter by saying that they had been involved in “surreptitious illegal activity” and were acting like drug dealers who were sneakingly “passing out dope.”

While the women acknowledge Trump’s remarks and his involvement in fueling the conspiracy theories that led to their harassment, the duo do not name Trump in the suit.

Freeman explained that at one point, the FBI advised her to leave her home for a period of about two months. In a report done by Reuters, transcript and documents obtained show that Freeman feared for her safety and would often move from one Airbnb location to another in order to avoid harassment and threats.

The Reuters report also highlights Freeman having called 911 on several occasions in fear of her safety. On December 4th, Freeman called a 911 dispatcher and explained that she had been receiving countless “threats and phone calls and racial slurs.” Freeman said that “It’s scary because they’re saying stuff like, ‘We’re coming to get you. We are coming to get you.’” Two days after that phone call Freeman called 911 dispatchers again just before 10 p.m. to report that strangers have been banging on her door. Freeman tells the dispatch “Lord Jesus, where’s the police? I don’t know who keeps coming to my door.” Freeman adds, “Please help me.”

Freeman later shared a statement through her lawyers about what she faced. She explains, “I couldn't have imagined the lies that The Gateway Pundit would tell about me, pushing people to harass me and my family and to threaten us with violence.”