A judge will hold a hearing Tuesday to determine if Harrison Floyd, one of the 19 people charged in the Georgia election interference RICO case, violated his bond terms with recent antagonistic social media posts and interview comments.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed a motion Wednesday asking for Floyd's bond agreement to be revoked, citing "numerous intentional and flagrant violations" of conditions that prohibit intimidation or communicating with witnesses and codefendants in the sweeping case that also includes former President Donald Trump.
Floyd, former director of Black Voices for Trump, has been charged with violating Georgia's racketeering statute, conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings and influencing witnesses in connection with his alleged role in the harassment of former Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman, who faced death threats and pressure to falsely admit to election fraud after the 2020 presidential race.
Prosecutors highlighted several posts on social media site X that allegedly violate Floyd's bond term, which prohibits him from performing acts "to intimidate any person known to him to be a codefendant or witness in this case" or communicating directly or indirectly about the facts of the case with codefendants or witnesses.
Included in the filing are several posts Floyd made since November attacking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, commenting on plea deals made by codefendants Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell and tweeted about Freeman and accusing officials of a "cover up" of purported election fraud.
Floyd, the only defendant to spend time in jail so far and who also faces charges of assaulting an FBI agent in his home state of Maryland, continued to post about Willis and the case after the motion was filed.
"Clarence Thomas was right. This is a circus. It is a national disgrace. It is a High Tech Lynching for an uppity black," he wrote Wednesday evening, quoting a video from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' 1991 confirmation hearings, adding in a later post "I've Done Nothing Wrong."
In a live chat Wednesday night on the X Spaces platform hosted by conservative political commentator Ryan Fournier, Floyd said prosecutors previously offered him a plea deal that he rejected, said there was nothing wrong with what he said and mused that he would get his case dismissed if the judge read his posts.
"I didn't make any threatening statements in any of the tweets, I didn't violate as I'm aware any of the bond conditions," he said "It doesn't make sense to me, none of this makes sense. No one should be afraid of standing up for and speaking the truth. They just don't like what I posted because it totally undermines and undercuts the entire narrative that they have. I mean, just by looking at what I tweeted alone, if the judge listened to it and saw it, he could probably just, you know, just dismiss my charges and the case against me."
While four defendants so far have taken deals to avoid trial and others are seeking other avenues to fight the charges, Floyd's legal defense has also centered around seeking documents to prove the thrice-counted 2020 election results in Georgia were actually fraudulent, despite overwhelming evidence that confirmed President Joe Biden's narrow victory over Trump.
Thursday afternoon, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set a hearing for Nov. 21 at 1:30 p.m. on the request to revoke his bond, noting that Floyd must appear in person.
