Lawyer tries to silence Fani Willis' dad as he describes threats that drove her from home
Lawyers for Donald Trump's co-defendant objected Friday when the father of Fani Willis testified about the racist threats that drove the Fulton County district attorney from her home.
John Floyd testified Friday morning that he had lived with his daughter until early 2021, about a month after she was sworn in as district attorney, until a crowd gathered outside their home and shouted racist and misogynist slurs around the time she opened her investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn his election loss in Georgia.
"She was forced to move after she was elected ... after she was sworn in, she was sworn in on Jan. 1 of 2021, and on or about the third of February, probably 5 or 5:30 a.m. in the morning, there were people outside her house cursing and yelling and calling her the B-word and the N-word and just I mean, it was bizarre," her dad testified.
At that point, one of the attorneys representing co-defendants Michael Roman in his attempt to have Willis disqualified from the case lodged an objection, suggesting that Floyd hadn't been present at the time. But Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee overruled it, saying the testimony was permissible because Floyd had actually witnessed the harassment himself.
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"Fortunately, the neighbors called the police and disbanded the group," Floyd said, once he was allowed to resume testifying, "and it was just, I mean, it was just, I hadn't seen anything exactly like it before. Yes, she was forced to leave."
Floyd remained at the home until 2022, saying he wanted to stay there and take care of the house and yard, but he said that he feared for his daughter's safety.
"Absolutely, and not only that, the South Fulton police, they brought somebody, a man with a dog, because there've been so many death threats and they said they were going to blow up the house, they were going to kill her, they were going to kill me, they were going to kill my grandchildren," Floyd testified. "I mean, on and on and on, and I was concerned for her safety."
"They brought a person with a dog, sometimes more than once a day, twice a day, and they would circle the house to look for bombs," Floyd added.
"I knew that that was a house that my daughter had worked for, it was a brand-new house, she's the only one who had ever lived there. It was a four-bedroom, brand new house, and I wanted, somebody needed to protect the house, and I stayed there to basically take care of the house, to take care of the yard.
"Also somebody sprayed, again, the B-word and N-word on the house, and I don't think my daughter even knew that. I cleaned it off and called the police, South Fulton police. They have, I'm sure, all the records of all the things that happened and all the neighbors, I notified all the neighbors to look out and to watch out, and it was just, it was so crazy. I mean, it was just so crazy. We'd have people would show up in parked cars. There was a guy parked for probably eight hours out in front of the house, and we'd call the police."
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