Former Black Voices for Trump director Harrison Floyd became the first of the 19 Fulton County defendants to be held in prison without bail.
Floyd, 39, turned himself into the Fulton County, Georgia jail Thursday afternoon after District Attorney Fani Willis gave former President Donald Trump and the other 18 co-conspirators in her election interference case until Friday noon to appear.
Failing to negotiate bail, he remained in detention after being charged with racketeering, conspiracy to obtain false testimony and tampering with witnesses.
Earlier this year, Floyd was accused of assaulting an FBI agent working on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s parallel investigation into election interference by Trump and his allies in 2020, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
According to an affidavit, Floyd struck down an agent who arrived at his home in Rockville, Maryland to subpoena him to appear before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC
Former Black Voices for Trump director Harrison Floyd became the first of the 19 Fulton County defendants to be held in prison without bail
“Who the hell do you think you are,” Floyd is said to have shouted, the affidavit said, describing Floyd standing “chest to chest” with the agent after pushing him backwards with his body.
In Georgia, Floyd – along with Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a police chaplain, and Trevian Kutti, former publicist for Kanye West – is accused of pressuring poll worker Ruby Freeman into falsely claiming that she committed voter fraud.
Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, who tearfully testified before the House Special Committee on Jan. 6, were the subject of a conspiracy theory corroborated by Trump and his allies.
Freeman and Moss were falsely accused of pulling fake mail-in ballots from suitcases during the election-day count at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
One of the other Fulton County defendants, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, alleged that mother and daughter passed USB flash drives “like vials of heroin or cocaine” when counting ballots.
Floyd is accused of pressuring poll worker Ruby Freeman into confessing to voter fraud crimes that she did not commit with a former publicist for Kanye West
Moss tearfully testified before Congress that her mother merely gave her a “ginger mint.”
After the election, the women received death threats.
While Giuliani and others were spreading this narrative about Freeman, Floyd, Lee, and Kutti were allegedly on a mission to get the poll worker to lie and say those untruths were true.
Floyd told Portal in December 2021 that he asked Kutti to visit Freeman at her home in the Atlanta area, which she did on January 4, 2021.
He also said he was no longer working for the Trump campaign at that point.
Kutti is said to have told Freeman that she was sent there by a “high-ranking person” – an apparent reference to West, according to Portal.
Freeman was initially skeptical and called the police.
Eventually she met Kutti at a police station.
Portal obtained body camera footage from an official present at the meeting.
“I can’t say exactly what will happen,” Kutti told the election worker. “All I know is that it will affect your freedom,” she said, “and the freedom of one or more of your family members.”
“You are a loose end of a party that needs to clean up,” the publicist continued, adding that “federals” were involved.
Kutti then said she would call “Harrison Ford” — believed to be Harrison Floyd — on the speakerphone and explain that he had “authoritarian powers to ensure your protection.”
Floyd turned himself in as Trump left his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, in his motorcade to catch a flight to Atlanta
Kutti then asked the officer to give them privacy so Floyd’s conversation with Freeman was not recorded.
Freeman later said Kutti and Floyd tried to get them involved in a voter fraud scheme.
“If you don’t tell everything,” she recalls Kutti saying, “you’re going to jail.”
Freeman said she became suspicious, jumped out of her chair and told Ye’s publicist, “The devil is a liar.”
Then she called an officer.
The episode showed Trump’s allies desperately trying to make the voter fraud allegations seem real.
Trump is expected to appear Thursday night at the same jail where Floyd is being held on election interference charges.
Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, also posed for his mugshot Thursday after his arrest in the Fulton County jail