Somehow this seems to have slipped past us here, but last week two media outlets published videos of the proffer sessions of the four Georgia defendants who have pleaded guilty: Jenna Ellis, Sydney Powell, Kennth Chesebro, and Scott Hall. District Attorney Fani Willis was not happy about this leak, which she said was designed to intimidate witnesses and to help other defendants get their stories straight, and she renewed her pervious request for Judge Scott McAfee to issue a protective order, which he did a few days later. There was some initial confusion about who leaked the video, but it turned out to be the lawyer for defendant Misty Hampton, the Coffee County elections supervisor. (At least, they leaked the video to ABC. Marcy Wheeler has noted that no one seems to have copped to releasing video the Washington Post.Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 4:53 am Here's the full list of the defendants: ...
Harrison Floyd, leader of Black Voices for Trump
At about the same time, Willis also asked the judge to revoke Harrison Floyd's bond because certain public statements and social media activity in which he had engaged, including tagging Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and former Fulton County poll worker Ruby Freeman, were violations of his bond agreement. That led to a hearing before Judge McAfee today. Notably Fani Willis herself represented her office today to argue that Floyd's public comments were designed to inspire others to threaten witnesses. The judge ruled that Floyd had "technically" violated his bond conditions, but not sufficiently to result in remand, and he modified those conditions to clarify what Floyd can and cannot say. After the hearing ended, Floyd, who had been chastised at one point by the judge for speaking out of turn when he "corrected" Willis's reference to "defendant Trump" by saying "President Trump," said to reporters: "Fani's just taken two L's, we got more for her. She’s just mad she can’t get past the Uncle Tom … she's just a little district attorney and I'm presidential."