Trump had a direct role in plan to install fake electors. Key takeaways from the fourth Jan. 6 hearing

Multiple state election officials described “disturbing” threats, harassment and other forms of retaliation after being targeted in lies about the election being spread by Trump and his allies.

“Up until even recently, it is a pattern in our lives to worry what will happen on Saturdays,” Bowers testified.

He said groups of Trump supporters driving video-panel trucks with “blaring loudspeakers” would drive by his house accusing him of being a pedophile, a pervert and a corrupt politician. Bowers said that they would start arguments with neighbors, recalling one instance when a protestor brandished a gun.

Visibly emotional, Bowers said the harassment outside his home also “upset” his daughter, who at the time was gravely ill and who died in late January.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he started receiving texts from all over the country after the election because Trump supporters publicly shared his private cell phone number, a harassment tactic called doxxing. Then, he said, his wife became a target and started receiving “sexualized attacks, which were disgusting.”

“And then some people broke into my daughter-in-law’s home, and my son has passed and she’s a widow and has two kids. And so we’re very concerned about her safety also,” he said.

Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, a former Georgia election worker, cried as she described how her life has been turned “upside down” after Giuliani falsely accused her and her mother of election tampering.

“I haven’t been anywhere at all. I’ve gained about 60 pounds. I just, don’t do nothing anymore,” she said. “It’s affected my life in a major way. In every way. All because of lies. From me doing my job, the same thing I’ve been doing forever.”

The committee played clips of testimony from Ruby Freeman, Moss’ mother, who said she was also tarred with false election-fraud claims.

“I’ve lost my name, and I’ve lost my reputation. I’ve lost my sense of security. All because a group of people, starting with number 45, and his ally, Rudy Giuliani, decided to scapegoat me and my daughter, Shaye, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen,” Freeman said.

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