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   Who Is Harrison Floyd: Trump Co-Defendant And Black Voices For Trump   
   Leader Still In Fulton County Jail   
   Brian Bushard   
      
   Aug 26, 2023,12:32pm EDT   
      
   Topline   
      
   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   
      
   In this handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, leader of   
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   Key Facts   
      
   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.   
      
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