Director of Black Voices for Trump is held in jail WITHOUT bond: Harrison Floyd becomes first MAGA ally to be booked behind bars in the Georgia election fraud case

Former Black Voices for Trump executive Harrison Floyd was the first of 19 Fulton County defendants to be held in jail without bail.

Floyd, 39, turned himself in to the Fulton County Jail on 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 afternoon to appear. .

He did not negotiate bail, and so remained in custody after being charged with racketeering, conspiracy to compel false statements, and influence of witnesses.

Earlier this year, Floyd was charged with assaulting an FBI agent who was working on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s parallel investigation into interference in the 2020 election by Trump and his allies. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

An affidavit says Floyd knocked down an agent who arrived at his home in Rockville, Maryland to subpoena him to appear before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC.

“WHO THE F*** DO YOU THINK YOU ARE,” Floyd reportedly yelled, according to the affidavit, which described Floyd standing “chest to chest” with the officer after body-blogging him.

In Georgia, Floyd — along with police chaplain Stephen Cliffgard Lee, and Trevian Kutti, Kanye West’s former publicist — is accused of pressuring pollster Ruby Freeman to falsely say she committed voter fraud.

Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss — who gave tearful testimony before the House of Representatives committee on Jan. 6 — were the subject of a conspiracy theory echoed by Trump and his allies.

Freeman and Moss were falsely accused of taking counterfeit ballots from suitcases while plotting the Election Day count at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena.

One of Fulton County’s other defendants, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, alleged that the mother and daughter passed USB sticks “like vials of heroin or cocaine” as they counted ballots.

Floyd is accused of pressuring pollster Ruby Freeman to confess to voter fraud crimes that she did not commit with a former Kanye West publicist.

Moss tearfully testified to Congress that her mother only gave her a “ginger mint.”

The women received death threats in the aftermath of the election.

While Giuliani and others pushed this story about Freeman, Floyd, Lee and Kutti were reportedly on a mission to get the pollster to lie and say these untruths were true.

Floyd told Reuters 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 allegedly told Freeman she was sent there by a “high-profile person” — a clear reference to West, according to Reuters.

Freeman was skeptical at first and called the police.

Finally, she met Kutti at a police station.

Reuters has obtained body camera footage of an officer who was present at the meeting.

“I can’t say what specifically will happen,” Kutti told the pollster. “I just know it will disrupt your freedom,” she said, “and the freedom of one or more of your family members.”

“You’re a loose end for a party that needs to clean up,” the publicist continued, adding that “federal people” were involved.

Kutti then said she would put “Harrison Ford” — presumably Harrison Floyd — on speaker, explaining that he had “authoritative powers to protect you.”

Floyd turned himself in as Trump left his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, in his motorcade en route to a flight to Atlanta.

Kutti then asked the officer to give them privacy so that Floyd’s conversation with Freeman was not recorded.

Freeman later said Kutti and Floyd tried to get her to implicate herself in a voter fraud.

“If you don’t tell everything,” she remembered Kutti saying, “you’ll go to jail.”

Freeman said she got suspicious, jumped up from her chair and told Ye’s publicist, “The devil is a liar.”

Then she called an officer.

The episode showed the desperate effort of Trump’s allies to make the allegations of voter fraud feel real.

Trump is expected to appear Thursday night in the same prison where Floyd is being held on charges of election interference.