Special Report: Trump aide set up meeting where election worker was pressured

[kpete]

Source: Reuters

Dec 21 (Reuters) - A member of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign arranged and participated in a meeting at which a Georgia election worker says she was pressed by a Chicago publicist to falsely admit voting fraud.

The revelation directly ties a senior figure in the former president’s political operation to an extraordinary late-night Jan. 4 meeting in which a $16-an-hour election worker faced pressure to implicate herself in a baseless conspiracy theory, stoked by Trump himself, as he sought to overturn his Georgia election loss.

Harrison Floyd - who was executive director of a national campaign coalition called Black Voices for Trump in 2020 - told Reuters on Monday that he asked Chicago publicist Trevian Kutti to visit the Atlanta area to speak with 62-year-old temporary election worker Ruby Freeman. Floyd said he then participated by phone in a meeting Kutti held with Freeman at a police station in Georgia’s Cobb County.

Kutti was accompanied at the meeting by another Trump campaign figure: Garrison Douglas, who was a Georgia leader in Black Voices for Trump during the campaign and now works as a Republican Party spokesperson in the state. Douglas confirmed to Reuters that he was present at the meeting. Floyd said he recruited Douglas and Kutti because he was unable to attend himself.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-campaign-official-set-up-meeting-where-georgia-election-worker-was-2021-12-21/

[onecaliberal]

1. Lock them all up.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. And throw away the key

[onecaliberal]

19. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[ancianita]

2. So what crimes did they commit? What federal or GA election laws did they break?

The article doesn't say.

[reACTIONary]

6. I'm not sure either, but...

.... IIRC, they intimated that the worker would be arrested if they did not "confess". There might be a crime in there somewhere.

Post below suggests suborning the equivalent of perjury about a democratic election.

[ancianita]

7. Ah. Okay. Like Trump's and Meadows' phone call. Thanks.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. Intimidation of an election worker is a crime, tho didn't look it up

Oh, counselling perjury?

[ancianita]

12. See how "news" leaves too much to speculation, when all it has to do is print the law code heading.

Clark D. Cunningham, a law professor at Georgia State University, said that Georgia, like many other states, has a statute similar to the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. Like the federal statute, the state law is meant to target organized criminal enterprises and prohibit patterns of crimes that seek to further those enterprises’ illegal aim.

Mr. Cunningham said this could include trying to change the election results in Georgia. He also noted that the Georgia statute specifically covers false statements and writings made to state officials.

See footnote 8, page 49, and pp 51, 54 and 55 from a State Bar of GA session.

OR http://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/183

[llashram]

3. big bucks promised here

and received...

[pandr32]

4. Strong-arm tactics from a capo

Trump embraces the Mob and sees himself as a boss of his own "family" which now controls the Republican Party.

[Grasswire2]

20. exactly

Always view him through the lens of MOB BOSS. It explains everything he does.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. suborning the equivalent of perjury about a democratic election?

The sanctity of an election is most fundamental to democracy. Votes are private, the ballot box secure. In a healthy democracy.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. Yes, classic, get minions to do your bidding..,I know nothing says the mob leaders.

Yes sir, the little rats are fleeing before they are subpoenaed before the sedition day committee, getting your story out there before the shit flies. Good legal advice, at times.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

9. Floyd is trying to have it both ways as the rats leave the sinking Frumptanic.

Floyd said he arranged the meeting in an effort to help Freeman. He said he himself believed she was seeking assistance, including immunity from prosecution over claims from the Trump camp that she had committed voting fraud.

Freeman, through a spokesperson, said she never reached out to anyone to seek immunity. Her lawyer, Von DuBose, declined to comment further.

A former Justice Department official in Georgia confirmed that state and federal investigators concluded in December 2020 that there was no evidence Freeman committed fraud. As a result, the department never considered offering her immunity, said the official, who had direct knowledge of a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into Trump’s Georgia election-fraud claims.

[Bev54]

11. So his name is Harrison Floyd, many outlets reported his name as Harrison Ford.

[Maeve]

13. Yes, always adding "Not the famous actor"

[Mawspam2]

14. They false implicated Harrison Ford.

[Escurumbele]

15. The first real problem with the people involved is "Black Voices for Trump"

I have tried time and again to understand why a Black or Latino person can think trump is the candidate for them, do this people travel to earth during the campaigns and then go back to their planet? It is inconceivable that any non-white person (although even white thinking person too) would support the buffoon...Can someone explain please?