Observers on Monday were quick to frame President Donald Trump’s broad pardon of so-called “false electors” as a symbolic gesture, since the various criminal cases against those individuals exist in the states, outside the jurisdiction of the presidential pardon.
But there is one notable exception: Harrison Floyd, a little-known former Marine who served on Trump’s 2020 campaign.
Trump pardoned high-profile people allegedly involved in his attempt to overturn the election, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Boris Epshteyn, John Eastman and Mark Meadows, and 72 other people allegedly associated with the effort to challenge the 2020 election results.
Floyd was charged with racketeering along with Giuliani and others in Georgia for his role after the 2020 election. But he also faces an unrelated federal charge for assaulting a federal agent in 2023.
Defendant Harrison Floyd looks on during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia against Donald John Trump, on February 13, 2024, at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta.
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And now a lawyer for Floyd says the pardon could also extend to his federal position.
“Obviously, there’s an argument that this pardon extends to that charge, but that’s all I can tell you at this point,” Carlos JR Salvado, Floyd’s attorney, said in a brief phone interview with ABC News.
Floyd allegedly attacked two FBI agents sent on behalf of special prosecutor Jack Smith to serve a subpoena on Floyd as part of the federal investigation into 2020 election subversion, according to the Washington Post. The Post, citing a sealed affidavit, reported that Floyd punched the body of one of the officers and yelled, “Who the fuck do you think you are?”
The language of Trump’s pardon covers people accused of “any conduct related to his efforts to expose voter fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 presidential election.”
Floyd has not pleaded guilty to the assault charge, court records show, but his attorney said they were preparing to take the case to trial.
On Monday, Floyd wrote on X, “BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT! Thank you @EagleEdMartin, @WhiteHouse and everyone else involved.”
