Harrison Floyd (Fulton County Jail mug shot), Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks on Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
The Black Voices for Trump activist who spent days in jail following his surrender in Georgia election racketeering (RICO) case being prosecuted in Fulton County should head right back to jail due to “numerous intentional and flagrant violations of the conditions of release,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) argued in a Wednesday motion.
At the start of the Georgia RICO case, Harrison William Prescott Floyd stood out as the only one among 19 defendants who was jailed in Fulton County after being booked. It was revealed that, unlike other defendants including former President Donald Trump, Floyd had not negotiated a bond in advance of his surrender. In addition, Floyd, who served in the U.S. Marines and had been a professional MMA fighter, was separately charged federally in May for allegedly assaulting a federal officer who was attempting to serve a grand jury subpoena.
Five days after his surrender, Floyd was finally released on a $100,000 bond, a bond DA Willis sought to revoke on Wednesday.
“Since November 1, 2023, the Defendant has publicly tweeted multiple times from the Twitter account @hw_floyd in an effort to intimidate codefendants and witnesses, to communicate directly and indirectly with codefendants and witnesses, and to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice,” Willis said. “The Defendant’s Twitter account has approximately 25,000 followers who can view his public tweets.”
The filing included screenshots of Floyd’s posts on X tagging witnesses Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), the office’s COO Gabriel Sterling (R), admitted felon Jenna Ellis, and Ruby Freeman, a 2020 Georgia election worker baselessly accused by Trump and top allies like Rudy Giuliani of fraud.
In one post tagging the secretary of state’s official account, Floyd said Raffensperger “needs to call his lawyer” and that “He’s about to go through some things!” The latter remark is an apparent reference to something Trump once said (“She’s going to go through some things”) about former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and subsequent impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch.
Floyd also tagged Jenna Ellis in a post, accusing her of lying in her recently leaked proffer session when she recalled an alleged conversation with Trump White House aide Dan Scavino at a post-2020 election Christmas Party. Scavino, according to Ellis, said that “the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.”
“I guess they don’t teach ethics at Harvard Law anymore,” Floyd posted. Ellis got her J.D. from the University of Richmond School of Law.
Floyd additionally posted about Ruby Freeman, prefacing the post by saying, “If we are sharing / leaking videos today,” and stating thereafter, “Like I said from the start, Ruby Freeman was TERRIFIED & wouldn’t talk to anyone WHITE!” The defendant commented that “This is a COVER UP” and that “Fulton County is CORRUPT!”
“[W]itness Ruby Freeman has been a frequent target of the Defendant’s intimidating communications. In Count 31 of the indictment, the Defendant is charged with Influencing Witnesses in violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-10- 93(b)(1)(A) involving witness Ruby Freeman herself. Because of and in response to the Defendant’s intimidating communications, witness Ruby Freeman has been the subject of renewed threats of violence from third parties,” Willis responded.
Interpreting Floyd’s social media posts as “a pattern of intimidation toward known codefendants and witnesses, direct and indirect communication about the facts of this case to known codefendants and witnesses, and obstruction of the administration of justice in direct violation of this Court’s order,” Willis moved for the previously jailed defendant’s bond to be revoked. As of early Thursday afternoon, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee had not ruled on the motion.
Most recently, Floyd’s name came up again amid the controversy over Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis’ leaked proffer sessions, as his attorney Todd Andrew “T.A.” Harding made an unfortunate “typo” in an email claiming responsibility for the leaks. In reality, Jonathan Miller, a defense lawyer for Floyd co-defendant Misty Hampton, the ex-Coffee County elections supervisor, was the one who admittedly leaked to the media “confidential” videos that were recorded as part of the Powell and Ellis’ guilty pleas.
Harrison Floyd’s reaction to the leak, which incorrectly blamed the leak on prosecutors, was one of many screenshots of his online activity that DA Willis included in her filing to revoke his bond.
Floyd also posted on X saying that because “there [was] no protective order,” he was releasing a 911 call Ruby Freeman made about people who drove all the way from Chicago to harass her and her daughter, Shaye Moss.
In response to the leaks, Judge McAfee has since entered a protective order, writing that there was “an interest in ensuring that all parties retain their right to a fair trial before an unbiased jury, a process that could become unattainable should the public be allowed to vet every piece of unfiltered evidence months before trial.”
Read the DA’s motion to revoke Harrison Floyd’s bond here.
Marisa Sarnoff contributed to this report.
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