The 18 co-conspirators indicted alongside Donald Trump this week are a strange crew.
Kenneth Chesebro apparently became red-pilled through a love of cryptocurrency. Jenna Ellis pretended to be a constitutional law expert on TV. Jeffrey Clark complained of being the victim of “witches, spiritists, mediums, those with spirit animals, and Ukrainian NPCs.” And Rudy Giuliani has—well, it would be impossible to recount all of the strange things Giuliani has done. And that’s before you even get to the allegations about how all of these lawyers and advisers conspired with Trump to overturn the 2020 election.
But there is one co-conspirator who stands out for being particularly out of place among this motley group of lawyers and advisers to the former president: one of Kanye West’s former publicists, Trevian Kutti.
Until reports surfaced of her attempted interference in Georgia vote counting for the 2020 election, Kutti was much more of a presence in the world of fashion and celebrity than in politics. She was best known for working as a publicist for controversial artists (she worked, at one point, for R. Kelly, in addition to her time with Kanye West.) But by 2020, she was doing potential crimes for a former president, connected to him, per the criminal filing, by a group called Black Voices for Trump.
Kutti’s role in the indictment relates to the harassment of Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman, whom some might remember as “Lady Ruby,” and whose testimony was played at the televised Jan. 6 committee hearings last year. (“There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere,” she testified. “Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?”) Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, were both election workers who were featured in edited viral videos that appeared, from the perspective of conspiracy theorists, to show them pulling from a suitcase of fake ballots. (The…
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