Nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you? The president of the United States is supposed to represent every American.
“For my entire professional life, I was Lady Ruby,” Freeman told the select committee. “My community in Georgia, where I was born and lived my whole life, knew me as Lady Ruby.… Now, I won’t even introduce myself by my name anymore. I get nervous when I bump into someone I know in the grocery store who says my name. I’m worried about who is listening. I get nervous when I have to give my name for food orders. I’m always concerned of who is around me. 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.” Noting that the FBI had advised her to leave her home at least through the 2021 inauguration, Freeman said: “There is no where I feel safe. In a taped deposition, Moss’s mother, Ruby Freeman, said that she, too, became the target of terrifying abuse, so much so that she‘s now afraid to utter her name in public. “A lot of threats, wishing death upon me. Telling me that, you know, I’ll be in jail with my mother, and saying things like, ‘be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920,’” Moss said Tuesday.
One of those people was Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a former Georgia election worker, who told the January 6 panel that after Trump and Rudy Giuliani claimed video footage showed her and her mother passing a USB drive to each other-in reality, it was a ginger mint-she received a torrent of “hateful” and “racist” threats over Facebook. Even more disturbingly, it also included vile abuse and harassment directed at various individuals who were simply doing their jobs, and in the process provoked the wrath of Donald Trump, a repugnant little man who doesn’t care whose lives he has to ruin in the service of his own ego. That effort included pressure campaigns on people like Arizona state representative Rusty Bowers, whom Trump attorney John Eastman urged to “decertify” his state’s electors, and the infamous phone call to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, in which the then president of the United States suggested Raffensperger would face criminal consequences unless the secretary magically came up with the 11,780 votes Trump needed to beat Joe Biden. Also keep an eye out for California condors.During the fourth public hearing held by the January 6 committee, the American people heard, once again, the elaborate lengths to which Donald Trump and his allies went to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Hiking, rock formations, talus caves and wildflowers are big draws. The park's west entrance is 14.3 miles northeast of the mission on California State Route 146. But the biggest nearby attraction (especially in cooler seasons) is a new national park, Pinnacles, which was promoted from national monument status early last year. Nearby: Downtown Soledad (population 25,849) is about three miles north of the mission. Also on site: an olive grove that was replanted using mission-era techniques. Behind the mission church, you can see ruins of the old mission complex. Mass is celebrated once a month (plus Easter and Christmas).
The mission chapel, a 1954 reconstruction, receives about 1,000 visitors a month. The population of neophytes (as the padres called baptized converts and laborers) peaked in 1805 at 688 by the late 1830s the number had dropped to less than 100. Neighbored by farmland, vineyards and the Salinas River, it lies about three miles south of the town of Soledad. This tiny mission in the Salinas Valley seems almost as isolated as it once was.