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   On 8/26/2023 10:53 AM, Mugshots Are Great Again - MAGA wrote:   
   > Who Is Harrison Floyd: Trump Co-Defendant And Black Voices For Trump   
   > Leader Still In Fulton County Jail   
      
   Maybe he can be Epsteined, heh heh heh...   
      
   > Brian Bushard   
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   > Aug 26, 2023,12:32pm EDT   
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   > Topline   
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   > 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   
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   > In this handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, leader of   
   > Black Voices for Trump ... [+]Getty Images   
   > Key Facts   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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.”   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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   
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   > 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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