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Who Is Harrison Floyd: Trump Co-Defendant And Black Voices For Trump
Leader Still In Fulton County Jail
Brian Bushard
A Georgia judge on Friday denied bond for Harrison Floyd, the only one of
18 co-defendants in former President Donald Trump’s election interference >> case in Fulton County to stay in jail, and the former Black Voices for
Trump leader has a history of politics and legal trouble.
Defendants In State Of Georgia V. Trump Case To Be Booked Through Fulton
County Jail
Floyd, a 39-year-old U.S. Marine veteran, served as the director of the
political group Black Voices for Trump during the 2020 election cycle, and >> was charged last week in the Fulton County case with violating Georgia’s >> Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, for influencing >> a witness and conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements.
According to the indictment, Floyd pressured Ruby Freeman, an election
worker in Fulton County, after she refused to change the results of the
county’s vote in the 2020 election for Trump, with Freeman testifying
before the House January 6 Committee last year that she was forced to
leave her home for two months and quit her job after receiving threats
after the election.
Floyd, a graduate of George Washington University, had become a prominent
Republican in Georgia in recent years, running in 2019 for a Congressional >> seat.
Floyd dropped out of the race just over a month after announcing his
candidacy, saying he “might be the guy doing this in the future,” while >> expressing his support for a GOP state representative in his place
(Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux won the district in 2020).
In 2020, Floyd led the organization Black Voices for Trump, and also
served as executive producer of right-wing outlet Bright News and as a
partner at Washington D.C.-based Commonwealth International, according to
his LinkedIn page.
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Floyd had been charged in a separate case in May with second-degree
assault and arrested for allegedly attacking an FBI agent who had served
him a grand jury subpoena in the Department of Justice’s investigation
into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
According to a complaint in federal District Court in Maryland, Floyd
refused to accept the subpoena, putting his finger to the face of one of
two FBI agents who arrived at his residence, yelling: “You haven’t given >> me anything; I don’t know who the f**k you are.”
Later that night, Floyed called 911, accusing the agents of accosting him
and saying: “They were lucky I didn’t have a gun on me, because I would >> have shot his fucking ass,” the Huffington Post reported.
Forbes has reached out to Floyd’s court-listed attorney in Maryland,
Carlos Salvado—Floyd does not have an attorney listed in the Georgia case. >> News Peg
On Friday, Fulton County Judge Emily Richardson denied bond for Floyd
after he determined he posed a flight risk and a risk to commit further
criminal felonies if released on bail (Georgia state law requires
defendants to be determined to pose no “significant risk of fleeing” and >> pose no “threat or danger to any person” or of committing a felony to be >> released on bail).
What To Watch For
Richardson said in her determination on Friday that the terms of Floyd’s >> bond “will be addressed,” but that the full terms fall on Fulton County >> Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case. Floyd, however, has
contested his bond denial, telling Richardson on Friday: “There is no way >> I’m a flight risk. I showed up here before the president was here.”
Tangent
Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Fulton County last week on 13 felony >> counts, including racketeering, solicitation of violation of oath by a
public officer, conspiracy to commit forgery, false statements and
conspiracy to impersonate a public officer.. After just over a week, Trump >> surrendered to authorities in a brief procedure on Thursday, posting a
$200,000 bond after giving a mug shot and his fingerprints before promptly >> leaving Georgia. All 18 of his co-defendants also turned themselves in by
Friday, with Pastor Stephen Lee becoming the last to do so before the 12
p.m. deadline, following a group of former Trump aides and attorneys, as
well as so-called fake electors in Trump’s legal team’s dubious plot to >> overturn the results of his election loss to President Joe Biden.
Once again, the racist nature of Democrats reveals itself.
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