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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   
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   >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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