Ex-Director Of Black Voices For Donald Trump, Floyd To Appear Before US Court For Assaulting FBI Agent
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Former United States president, Donald Trump’s co-defendant, Harrison Floyd will be appearing before an Atlanta court on Friday, after Trump himself was booked in a wide-ranging criminal case over his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia.
Earlier this year, Floyd was charged with attacking an FBI agent, who was working on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s parallel probe into 2020 election interference by Trump and his allies, Reuters reports.
An affidavit says Floyd body-slammed an agent who arrived at his Rockville, Maryland home to subpoena him to appear before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C.
The former director of Black Voices for Trump, Floyd, was the first of the 19 Fulton County defendants to be held in jail without bond
His appearance comes after a momentous day in which Trump’s mug shot from the Fulton County Jail was released. Trump was captured glaring at the camera in the first such photograph of a former president in U.S. history, yet another extraordinary moment for the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination.
Trump, 77, already has entered uncharted territory as the first U.S. president to face criminal charges, but he did not have to submit to a photograph when making appearances in his three other criminal cases.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has charged Trump with 13 felony counts including racketeering for pressuring state officials to reverse his 2020 election loss and setting up an illegitimate slate of electors to undermine the formal congressional certification of Democratic President Joe Biden’s victory.
After spending about 20 minutes at the jail on Thursday evening before heading back to his New Jersey golf club, Trump repeated the claim that Willis’ prosecution – along with the others he faces – is politically motivated.
“What has taken place here is a travesty of justice,” he told reporters. “I did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it.”
Eighteen of the 19 total co-defendants, including former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, already have been booked according to authorities.
In Georgia, Floyd is accused – alongside Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a police chaplain, and Trevian Kutti, Kanye West’s former publicist – of pressuring poll worker Ruby Freeman into falsely saying she committed election fraud.
Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss – who gave tearful testimony to the House select committee on January 6 – were the subjects of a conspiracy theory echoed by Trump and his allies.
Freeman and Moss were falsely accused of pulling phony mail-in ballots from suitcases while tabulating the count on Election Day at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena.
One of the other Fulton County defendants, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, pushed that the mother-and-daughtr were passing USB drives ‘like vials of heroin or cocaine’ as they counted ballots.
Moss tearfully testified before Congress that her mother had merely passed her a ‘ginger mint.’
The women were receiving death threats in the election’s aftermath.
As Giuliani and others were pushing this narrative about Freeman, Floyd, Lee and Kutti were allegedly on a mission to get the poll worker to lie and say these falsehoods were true.
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