NEW YORK — A pair of former election workers who became the subjects of a Trump-backed conspiracy theory in the aftermath of the 2020 election are set receive the Presidential Citizens Medal at a White House ceremony on Friday, less than a week after former President Donald Trump renewed attacks on them.
Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea"Shaye" Moss, both former election workers from Fulton County, Georgia, are among 12 individuals who will be honored by President Joe Biden for making"exemplary contributions to our democracy surrounding January 6, 2021," the White House said.
In testimony before the House Jan. 6 Committee and in an exclusive interview with ABC News in November, Moss and Freeman described in detail how their lives and livelihoods were flipped upside down after Trump and his allies accused the two women of engaging in election fraud. Relentless threats of violence, both online and in person, ensued, driving both of the woman from their work as election officers and, in Freeman's case, from her home. The pair became casualties of the so-called"Big Lie" -- Trump's false narrative that the 2020 presidential election was rigged in favor of Biden.
Earlier this week, Trump renewed attacks on Freeman, whom he accused of lying to the Jan. 6 Committee after the complete transcript of her interview with the panel was made public.
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