Harrison Floyd Fundraiser Hits $220k As Trump Co-Defendant Remains in Jail
Afundraiser for Harrison Floyd, the only one of
Donald Trump's 18 co-defendants in the
Georgia election fraud case to be denied bail, has raised $220,000 to pay for his legal team.
Following the arrests, 18, including Trump, were granted bail.
The exception was Floyd, who said he could not afford a lawyer and was deemed to be a flight risk when he appeared before a judge.
During a court hearing, he told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Emily Richardson he "cannot afford an attorney for something like this," claiming it would cost $40,000 to $100,000 to retain a lawyer for the charges and he did not want to "put my family in that kind of debt."
Richardson concluded there were "grounds for the bond to be denied at this point" as she believed there was a danger Floyd would "commit additional felonies and potential risk to flee the jurisdiction."
On Saturday morning, a legal fundraiser for Floyd, hosted on crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, exceeded $100,000 out of a target of $200,000. As of Sunday morning at 4:44 a.m. ET $219,823 had been given by 4,714 donors. In an update, Dominion Law Center, which is running the crowd funder, said it plans to go before a judge on Monday in a bid to secure bail for Floyd.
Harrison Floyd fundraiser hits $220k as Trump co-defendant remains in jail