Trump co-defendant's 'kooky' demand challenged in court — and ridiculed online

A co-conspirator in former President Donald Trump's Georgia election racketeering case argued Tuesday he cannot mount a defense without 800,000 voter applications he does not want to pay for, according to an attorney tuning into the hearing.

Harrison Floyd, the former head of Black Voices for Trump accused of conspiring to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election, appeared in Fulton County court to demand voter records he says he needs to prove President Joe Biden won.

"The defense counsel for Harrison Floyd says he needs more information about the ballots cast in 2020 in order to determine whether a false statement [sic]," the attorney says they cannot form a defense unless it is certain that Biden won the election, reported attorney Anthony Michael Kreis.

"The attorney says Floyd shouldn't have to pay for the production of materials either."

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The county told Judge Scott McAfee such an endeavor would necessitate redacting and printing documentation that would present an unfair burden.

"The county should not have to bear that burden," they argued, according to Kreis. "It'll be thousands of hours."

Floyd himself offered a more colloquial account of his defense in an X post Tuesday: "I 👏🏾WANT👏🏾 ALL 👏🏾THE 👏🏾BALLOTS."

Floyd is one of 19 defendants named in the criminal election racketeering indictment brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in August 2023.

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Since then, four of the original 19 have accepted plea deals in exchange for their testimony and Willis herself has been subjected to a court hearing regarding a personal relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade.

Wade has since withdrawn from the case, as requested by the court.

Kreis' reports of Tuesday's hearing spurred one of his followers to demand sanctions for Floyd's attorneys on the grounds that "these yahoos lost over 62 court cases and President Biden is in office."

But Kreis argued Floyd's lawyers were right to challenge the government's case however possible.

"They can craft kooky defenses that jurors can reject," Kreis replied. "We've an adversarial criminal justice system-- this is it working."