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trevian Kutti, a co-defendant in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump, denied that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
In a post on the social media platform X last week,Kutti shared her views about what happened in the camps run by Hitler's Nazi Germany.
"I've been to both Dachau and Auschwitz," she wrote. "They could have NEVER 'ovened' that many Jews. There weren't even that many ovens. The number is not 6M. Jews died but it was NOT 6M. If you take a trip, you'll know that number is a lie. And no, ovens weren't destroyed."
One commenter accused Kutti of going "full Nazi."
"Oh man she went full Nazi wow," the person wrote in response to Trump's co-defendant.
"Reading is fundamental," Kutti wrote back.
"No you are Ignant," the commenter replied. "No one has ever claimed six million died in ovens. That's how I know you dumb as hell. And went full Nazi lying and making excuses."
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"I studied in Germany, speak FLUENT German AND HAVE READ MEIN KAMPF IN GERMAN. please stay in your place," Kutti fired back.
According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2.7 million Jews were killed in Nazi gas chambers as part of the "final solution." So-called "ovens" were used to dispose of the bodies after death.
In all, 6 million Jews were estimated to have been killed in the Holocaust.
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at Turning Point USA's AmeriFest gathering, Trevian Kutti — one of Donald Trump's co-defendants in Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference case — posed for a photo with Capitol rioter Jacob Chansley, a.k.a. The QAnon Shaman. On Monday, December 18, the Chicago-based Kutti posted the photo (which shows her raising her middle finger) on Instagram. And that same day, her attorneys filed a motion to drop her as a client.
Kutti's Instagram post, referring to Chansley, reads, "just like they lied on him THEY ARE LYING ON ME." Chansley served time in prison for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building.
Atlanta-based attorney Darryl Cohen, who has been representing Kutti in Willis' case, told The Messenger, "In order to have a good lawyer-client relationship, the client has to listen. The client has to be on board, and you have to be paid. All these things have to happen. I'm not saying any of those things did or didn't happen, but you can extrapolate."
Cohen, according to Messenger reporters Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Darren Samuelsohn, said he was speaking in general terms and didn't talk about Kutti specifically.
The attorney, however, also told The Messenger, "This case is so unusual and so high profile with everybody looking at it under a microscope, that you've got to be very careful as to what you say because you never know who's coming after you."
Kutti, an ex-publicist for R&B singer R. Kelly and the pro-Donald Trump rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is facing RICO and witness intimidation charges in Willis' case but is free on bail — at least for now.
The Messenger's Zachary Leeman, on December 4, reported that Willis' office was considering a request to revoke Kutti's bail in response to threatening comments she made on Instagram about former Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman.
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Here are the 19 people named in the sweeping indictment against Donald Trump
Here is a list of who is named in Fani Willis’ sweeping indictment of the nation’s 45th president and his allies.
By Tim Darnell, Atlanta News First staff and The Associated Press
Published: Aug. 14, 2023
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ sweeping indictment from her investigation into alleged attempts by former President Donald Trump to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election includes some of the most prominent figures in the Republican Party.
It comes just two weeks after the Justice Department special counsel charged him in a vast conspiracy to overturn the election, underscoring how prosecutors after lengthy investigations that followed the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol have now, two-and-a-half years later, taken steps to hold Trump to account for an assault on the underpinnings of American democracy.
Though the indictment is centered on Trump’s efforts to subvert election results in just one state, its sprawling web of defendants stands apart from the more tightly-targeted case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, which so far only names Trump as a defendant. The Georgia case also stands out because, unlike the two federal prosecutions he faces, Trump would not have the opportunity to try to pardon himself if elected president.
FULL COVERAGE: Timeline, history and key players of historic indictment in Georgia
“Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully joined conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump,” says the indictment issued Monday night by the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
The indictment charges Trump with making false statements and writings for a series of claims he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state election officials on Jan. 2, 2021, including that up to 300,000 ballots “were dropped mysteriously into the rolls” in the 2020 election, that more than 4,500 people voted who weren’t on registration lists and that a Fulton County election worker, Ruby Freeman, was a “professional vote scammer.”
Here are the 19 people named in the indictment:
- DONALD TRUMP: Then-President Donald Trump fixated on Georgia after the 2020 general election, refusing to accept his narrow loss in the state and making unfounded assertions of widespread election fraud there. He also called top state officials, including Gov. Brian Kemp, to urge them to find a way to reverse his loss in the state. In a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Trump suggested the state’s top elections official could help “find” the votes needed for him to win the state. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened an investigation into possible illegal attempts to influence the election shortly after a recording of that call was made public.
- RUDY GIULIANI: During several legislative hearings at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020, the former New York mayor and Trump attorney promoted unsupported allegations of widespread election fraud in Georgia. Prosecutors have said Rudy Giuliani was also involved a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans serve as fake electors, falsely swearing that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
- JOHN EASTMAN: A former dean of Chapman University law school in Southern California, John Eastman, one of Trump’s lawyers, was deeply involved in some of his efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election. He wrote a memo arguing that Trump could remain in power if then-Vice President Mike Pence overturned the results of the election during a joint session of Congress where electoral votes would be counted. That plan included putting in place a slate of “alternate” electors in seven battleground states, including Georgia, who would falsely certify that Trump had won their states.
- MARK MEADOWS: Trump’s chief of staff visited Cobb County, in the Atlanta suburbs, while state investigators were conducting an audit of the signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in December 2020. Mark Meadows obtained the phone number of the chief investigator for the secretary of state’s office, Frances Watson, and passed it along to Trump, who called her. He also participated in the Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
- SIDNEY POWELL: A lawyer and staunch Trump ally, Sidney Powell was part of a group who met at the South Carolina home of conservative attorney Lin Wood in November 2020 “for the purpose of exploring options to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere,” prosecutors have said. Wood, who’s licensed in Georgia, said Powell asked him to help find Georgia residents to serve as plaintiffs in lawsuits contesting the state’s election results. Additionally, emails and documents obtained through subpoenas in an unrelated lawsuit have shown that Powell was involved in arranging for a computer forensics team to travel to rural Coffee County, about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, to copy data and software from elections equipment there in January 2021.
- KENNETH CHESEBRO: Prosecutors have said Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney, worked with Georgia Republicans in the weeks after the November 2020 election at the direction of Trump’s campaign. Chesebro worked on the coordination and execution of a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans sign a certificate declaring falsely that Trump won and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors.
- JEFFREY CLARK: A U.S. Justice Department official who championed Trump’s false claims of election fraud, Jeffrey Clark presented colleagues with a draft letter pushing Georgia officials to convene a special legislative session on the election results, according to testimony before the U.S. House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Clark wanted the letter sent, but Justice Department superiors refused.
- JENNA ELLIS: The lawyer appeared with Rudy Giuliani at a Dec. 3, 2020, hearing hosted by state Republican lawmakers at the Georgia Capitol during which false allegations of election fraud were made. Jenna Ellis also wrote at least two legal memos to Trump and his attorneys advising that Pence should “disregard certified electoral college votes from Georgia and other purportedly ‘contested’ states” when Congress met to certify the election results on Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors have said.
- RAY SMITH: A Georgia-based lawyer, Ray Smith was involved in multiple lawsuits challenging the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. He also gathered witnesses to provide testimony before Georgia legislative subcommittee hearings held in December 2020 on alleged issues with the state’s election.
- ROBERT CHEELEY: A Georgia lawyer, Robert Cheeley presented video clips to legislators of election workers at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta and alleged the workers were counting votes twice or sometimes three times. He spoke to the lawmakers after Giuliani.
- MICHAEL ROMAN: A former White House aide who served as the director of Trump’s election day operations, Michael Roman was involved in efforts to put forth a set of fake electors after the 2020 election.
- DAVID SHAFER: The chairman of the Georgia GOP, Shafer was one of 16 state Republicans who met at the state Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, to sign a certificate declaring falsely that Trump had won and also declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. He also joined Trump in a lawsuit challenging the certification of the 2020 election in Georgia.
- SHAWN STILL: He was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won the state and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors. Shawn Still was the finance chairman for the state GOP in 2020 and served as a Georgia delegate to the Republican National Convention that year. He was elected to the Georgia state Senate in November 2022 and represents a district in Atlanta’s suburbs.
- STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE: Prosecutors say Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a pastor, worked with others to try to pressure Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman and her daughter after Trump and his allies falsely accused them of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase during the vote count. Lee allegedly knocked on Freeman’s door, frightening her and causing her to call 911 three times, prosecutors said in a court filing last year.
- HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD: Also known as Willie Lewis Floyd III, he served as director of Black Voices for Trump, and is accused of recruiting Lee to arrange a meeting with Freeman and Chicago-based publicist Trevian Kutti.
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- TREVIAN C. KUTTI: Prosecutors allege publicist Trevian C. Kutti claimed to have high level law enforcement connections. They say Freeman met with Kutti at a police precinct, where she brought Floyd into the conversation on a speakerphone. Prosecutors say Kutti presented herself as someone who could help Freeman but then pressured her to falsely confess to election fraud.
- CATHY LATHAM: One of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won the state and declaring themselves the state’s “duly elected and qualified” electors, Cathy Latham was also chair of the Coffee County Republican Party. She was at the county elections office for much of the day on Jan. 7, 2021, and welcomed a computer forensics team that arrived to copy software and data from the county’s election equipment in what the secretary of state’s office has said was “unauthorized access” to the machines.
- SCOTT GRAHAM HALL: An Atlanta-area bail bondsman, Scott Graham Hall was allegedly involved in commandeering voting information that was the property of Dominion Voting Systems from Coffee County, a small south Georgia jurisdiction. Also charged in the scheme were Powell, Latham and former county elections supervisor Misty Hampton.
- MISTY HAMPTON: She was the elections director in Coffee County. Misty Hampton was present in the county elections office on Jan. 7, 2021, when a computer forensics team copied software and data from the county’s election equipment. She also allowed two other men who had been active in efforts to question the 2020 election results to access the elections office later that month and to spend hours inside with the equipment.
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Also known as Willie Lewis Floyd III, he served as director of Black Voices for Trump, a group aimed at increasing the former president's support among Black voters.
In December 2021, according to prosecutors Floyd was asked to arrange a meeting to discuss an “immunity deal” with Ruby Freeman, a Fulton County election worker whom Trump and his allies falsely accused of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase.
Willis said Floyd arranged for Trevian Kutti — whom Willis described as a “purported publicist” based in Chicago — to meet with Freeman. The prosecutor previously sought Kutti's testimony.
Kutti, who reportedly worked for Kanye West at one point, told Freeman that “an armed squad" of federal officers would approach her and her family within 48 hours and that Kutti had access to “very high-profile people that can make particular things happen in order to defend yourself and your family," according to Willis' court filing.
The district attorney cited video footage as evidence of those statements.
Kutti described Floyd as a “Black progressive crisis manager, very high level, with authoritative powers to get you protection that you need," Willis said.
During a subsequent phone call with Kutti and Floyd, Freeman was pressured to reveal information under threat of imprisonment, Willis said.
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How does Harrison Floyd fit into the indictment?
Floyd is charged with three counts of the indictment: Violation of the Georgia RICO Act, conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings; and influencing witnesses.
He appears in Act 89, Act 115, Act 116, Act 119, Act 120, Act 121, Act 122 and Act 127 of the 161 acts cited for Count 1, the overarching violation of RICO.
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He also specifically appears in Count 30 of the indictment, the conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings.
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According to the indictment, Floyd, Kutti and another indicted individual namedStephen Lee "unlawfully conspired to solicit, request and importune Ruby Freeman" on Jan. 4, 2021 "to engage in conduct constituting the felony offense of false statements and writings... by knowingly and willfully making false statement and representation concerning events at State Farm Arena in the November 3, 2020 presidential election in Georgia."
He is charged in Count 31 with influencing witnesses.
That charge alleges on Jan. 4, 2021 they "knowingly and unlawfully engaged in misleading conduct toward Ruby Freeman... by stating that she needed protection and by purporting to offer her help, with intent to influence her testimony in an official proceeding in Fulton County, Georgia, concerning events at State Farm Arena in the November 3, 2020 presidential election in Georgia."
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On or about the 3rd day of January 2021, STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE, HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD, and TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed multiple
telephone calls and sent text messages
to each other and to other individuals involved in the
conspiracy. They include the following:
l. At 7:48 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to Ruby Freeman, Fulton County, Georgia, election worker, that was unsuccessful.
2. At 7:49 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to Ruby Freeman that was unsuccessful.
3. At 7:49 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to TREVIAN C. KUTTI.
- At 7:53 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD sent text message to Ruby Freeman.
- At 8:03 p.m., TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
- At 8:11 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to unindicted co-conspirator
Individual 23,who'se identity is known to the Grand
Jury.
- At 8:18 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE.
- At 8:48 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to TREVIAN C. KUTTI.
- At 9:16 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to TREVIAN C. KUTTI.
- At 9:33 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to TREVIAN C. KUTTI.
- At 9:50 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone
call to STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE.
These were overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.
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On or about the 4th day of January 2021, TREVIAN C. KUTTI, having been recruited by HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD, traveled from Chicago, Illinois, to Atlanta, Georgia, and caused certain individual, Whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, to pick her up fiom train station in Fulton County, Georgia, for the purpose of attempting to contact Ruby
Freeman, Fulton County, Georgia, election worker. This was an overt act in furtherance ofthe
conspiracy.
Act 117.
On or about the 4th day of January 2021, TREVIAN C. KUTTI traveled to Ruby
Freeman's home in Cobb County, Georgia, and attempted to contact her but was unsuccessful. TREVIAN C. KUTTI spoke with Freeman's neighbor and falsely stated that she was crisis manager attempting to "help" Freeman before leaving Freeman's home. This was an overt act in
furtherance of the conspiracy.
Act 118.
On or about the 4th day of January 2021, TREVIAN C. KUTTI, while in Fulton County, Georgia, placed telephone call to Ruby Freeman and stated that Freeman was in
danger. TREVIAN C. KUTTI stated that she could "help" Freeman and requested that Freeman meet with and speak to her that night at Cobb County Police Department precinct
in Cobb County, Georgia. This was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.
Act112
On or about the 4th day ofJanuary 2021, TREVIAN C. KUTTI traveled to Cobb County Police Department precinct
in Cobb County, Georgia, and met with and spoke to Ruby
Freeman for approximately one hour. HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD joined
the meeting by telephone. TREVIAN C. KUTTI and HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT
FLOYD stated to Freeman that she needed protection
Act 120.
On or about the 4th day ofJanuary 2021 STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE, HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD, and TREVIAN C. KUTTI committed the
felony offense of SOLICITATION OF FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS,
in Violation of O.C.G.A. §§ 16-4-7 16-10-20,
in Cobb County, Georgia, by soliciting, requesting, and importuning Ruby Freeman, Fulton County, Georgia, election worker, to engage in
conduct constituting the felony offense of False Statements and Writings, O.C.G.A. 16-10-20, by knowingly and willfully making false statement and representation concerning events at State Farm Arena in the November 3, 2020, presidential election in Georgia, said statement and
representation being within the jurisdiction of the Office of the Georgia Secretary of State and
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, departments and agencies of state government, and county and city law enforcement agencies, with intent that said person engage in said conduct. This was an act ofracketeering activity under O.C.G.A. l614-3(5)(A)(xxii) and an overt act in
furtherance ofthe conspiracy.
Act 121.
On or about the 4th day ofJanuary 2021 STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE, HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD, and TREVIAN C. KUTTI committed the
felony offense ofINFLUENCING WITNESSES,
in violation of O.C.G.A. 16-10- 93(b)(1)(A),
in Fulton County, Georgia, by knowingly and unlawfully engaging in misleading
conduct toward Ruby Freeman, Fulton County, Georgia, election worker, by stating that she needed protection and by purporting to offer her help, with intent to influence her testimony in an official proceeding
in Fulton County, Georgia, concerning events at State Farm Arena in
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Act 122.
On or about the4th day of January 2021, STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE, HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD, and TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed multiple
telephone calls and sent text messages
to each other and to other individuals involved in the conspiracy. They include the following:
l. At 9:41 a.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 11:24 a.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to DAVID JAMES SHAFER.
At 12:25 p.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 12:32 p.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE sent text message to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 8:10 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call to DAVID JAMES SHAFER.
At 10:00 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE.
At 10:19 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to TREVIAN C. KUTTI.
At 10:43 p.m., TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 11:10 p.m., TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
- At 12:12 a.m. on January 5, 2021', TREVIAN C.
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Act 122.
On or about the 4th day of January 2021, STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE, HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD, and TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed multiple
telephone calls and sent text messages
to each other and to other individuals involved in the conspiracy. They include the following:
l. At 9:41 a.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 11:24 a.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to DAVID JAMES SHAFER.
At 12:25 p.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 12:32 p.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE sent text message to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 8:10 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call to DAVID JAMES SHAFER.
At 10:00 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE.
At 10:19 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to TREVIAN C. KUTTI.
At 10:43 p.m., TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 11:10 p.m., TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
- At 12:12 a.m. on January 5, 2021', TREVIAN C.
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Act 122.
On or about the 4th day of January 2021, STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE, HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD, and TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed multiple
telephone calls and sent text messages
to each other and to other individuals involved in the
conspiracy. They include the following:
l. At 9:41 a.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 11:24 a.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to DAVID JAMES SHAFER.
At 12:25 p.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 12:32 p.m., STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE sent text message to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 8:10 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call to DAVID JAMES SHAFER.
At 10:00 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to STEPHEN CLIFFGARD LEE.
At 10:19 p.m., HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD placed telephone call
to TREVIAN C. KUTTI.
At 10:43 p.m., TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
At 11:10 p.m., TREVIAN C. KUTTI placed telephone call to HARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD.
- At 12:12 a.m. on January 5, 2021', TREVIAN C.
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Trevian C. Kutti, former Kanye West, R. Kelly publicist, indicted with Trump in Georgia
- Published: Aug. 15, 2023,
Trevian Kutti is seen wearing a Balmain top and white shirt dress on December 02, 2021 in Miami, Florida
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Donald Trump and 18 other associates were charged Monday in Georgia as part of a sweeping indictment alleging they schemed to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss and stop the peaceful transition of power.
The indictment, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, follows an investigation that lasted more than two years and marks the fourth criminal case brought against the former president.
Those charged in Monday’s indictment face a slew of charges, including racketeering, violating the oath of a public officer, forgery, false statements and other offenses. Prosecutors say they must all surrender to authorities by Aug. 25.
Among those is publicist Trevian C. Kutti who prosecutors allege claimed to have high level law enforcement connections.
Prosecutors say Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman met with Kutti at a police precinct, where she brought Willie Lewis Floyd III, who served as director of Black Voices for Trump, into the conversation on a speakerphone.
Prosecutors say Kutti presented herself as someone who could help Freeman but then pressured her to falsely confess to election fraud.
“Kutti is well known in other circles as Kanye West’s onetime publicist,” Deadline reported. She also represented R. Kelly at one time.
Kutti visited Freeman saying “she was sent by a “high-profile individual,” whom she didn’t identify, to give Freeman an urgent message: confess to Trump’s voter-fraud allegations, or people would come to her home in 48 hours, and she’d go to jail,” Reuters reported in 2021.
West, long associated with Trump, told Reuters that Kutti “was not associated” with him when she met Freeman.
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Prosecutor: Trump Ally Arranged Meeting With Poll Worker
A Georgia prosecutor says a poll worker was pressured and threatened with imprisonment during a meeting arranged with the help of an ally of the Trump campaign.
By Associated Press
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Prosecutor: Trump Ally Arranged Meeting With Poll Worker
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FILE - Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is photographed in her office in Atlanta, on Jan. 4, 2022. Willis is investigating whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. As part of the probe, Willis filed court documents on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, seeking testimony from Willie Lewis Floyd, a director of Black Voices for Trump, a group aimed at increasing the former president's support among Black voters. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — After the 2020 election, a Georgia poll worker who was falsely accused of voting fraud by former President Donald Trump was pressured and threatened with imprisonment during a meeting arranged with the help of an ally of the Trump campaign, a prosecutor said in a court filing Friday.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia. As part of the probe, Willis filed court documents on Friday seeking testimony from Willie Lewis Floyd, a director of Black Voices for Trump, a group aimed at increasing the former president's support among Black voters.
In December 2021, Floyd was asked to arrange a meeting to discuss an “immunity deal” with Ruby Freeman, a Fulton County election worker whom Trump and his allies falsely accused of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase, according to Willis.
Willis said Floyd arranged for Trevian Kutti — whom Willis described as a “purported publicist” based in Chicago — to meet with Freeman. The prosecutor has previously sought Kutti's testimony.
Kutti told Freeman that “an armed squad" of federal officers would approach her and her family within 48 hours and that Kutti had access to “very high-profile people that can make particular things happen in order to defend yourself and your family," according to Willis' court filing.
The district attorney cited video footage as evidence of those statements.
Kutti did not immediately respond to an email message seeking comment Friday. A message to Floyd's Instagram account was also not immediately returned.
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Freeman and Kutti met at the Cobb County Police Department, where Kutti told Freeman that “freedom and the freedom of one or more of your family members” would be disrupted if Freeman declined her assistance. Kutti said Freeman was “a loose end for a party that needs to tidy up,” according to Willis.
The meeting was captured in part by a body camera, Willis said.
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Kutti also said she wanted to connect Freeman to Floyd, whom she described as a “Black progressive crisis manager, very high level, with authoritative powers to get you protection that you need," Willis said.
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During a subsequent phone call with Kutti and Floyd, Freeman was pressured to reveal information under threat of imprisonment, Willis said.
Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, appeared in June before the House Jan. 6 committee and have told lawmakers how the lies about election fraud upended their lives. Moss was also a poll worker in Fulton County.
Willis has sought testimony from numerous witnesses with ties to Trump as part of her investigation, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham. Giuliani, who’s been told he’s a target of the investigation, testified before the special grand jury last month. A federal judge on Thursday ruled that constitutional protections don’t shield Graham from testifying.
Trump has blamed voter fraud for his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden. State officials and federal investigators, including Trump’s own attorney general, have said there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 contest.
Associated Press writer Meg Kinnard in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
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Kutti was charged with violating Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute that prohibits racketeering, alleging Kutti and other defendants “constituted a criminal organization” and engaged in a criminal enterprise when they tried to overturn the election.
Kutti was also charged with one count of conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings and one count of influencing a witness.
The indictment alleges that Kutti communicated, via phone calls and text messages, with other individuals involved in the case and later traveled to Atlanta after being recruited by Willie Lewis Floyd III, director of Black Voices for Trump.
While in Georgia, Kutti made contact with an election worker named Ruby Freeman and visited Freeman’s home in Cobb County, though Kutti was initially unsuccessful in contacting her, the indictment alleges.
Kutti then falsely told Freeman’s neighbor “she was a crisis manager attempting to ‘help’ Freeman,” and later Freeman spent an hour meeting with Kutti at a Cobb County Police Department precinct, where Kutti claimed Freeman needed protection and offered to help her, the indictment alleges.
The indictment alleges Kutti, along with Floyd and Stephen C. Lee, an Illinois pastor, then unlawfully conspired to solicit, request and importune Freeman to make a false statement about what happened at State Farm Arena during the 2020 presidential election.
NEW PEG
Kutti was one of 19 individuals charged late Monday night in the fourth indictment of the former president. This investigation centered around Trump and his allies’ attempts to overturn the election. There were 41 total counts brought against the defendants, including 13 felony charges against Trump.
CRUCIAL QUOTE
“I believe that the charges that were filed on me are for a lack of better words baloney,” Kutti said in a text message to the Wall Street Journal. “I completely stand by what I said to the election worker that I was simply a crisis manager,” she added.
KEY BACKGROUND
Kutti’s involvement in the case became known in December 2021 through a Reuters report alleging Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, became mired in a media frenzy after Trump accused the election worker of secretly counting illegal ballots. Police body camera footage obtained by Reuters shows Freeman and Kutti sitting in the corner of the police station and Kutti telling Freeman that she was a “loose end for a party that needs to tidy up.” Kutti also told Freeman that unidentified “federal people” were involved in the case and that if Freeman did not confess to the false charges she and her family’s freedom could be in jeopardy, according to Reuters.
TANGENT
Kutti is a former publicist for West, who now goes by Ye, and former spokesperson for R. Kelly. Kutti stopped working with Kelly in 2018, according to the Chicago Sun Times. The exact timeline of the relationship between Kutti and West is unclear, but when Reuters published their report on Kutti’s role in the Fulton County probe, a spokesperson for West said in a statement that, “Trevian Kutti was not associated with Kanye West or any of his enterprises at the times of the facts that are reported in these articles or since these facts occurred.” For a period of time leading up to the 2020 election, Kutti worked as the campaign manager for QAnon supporter Angela Stanton King, who ran and lost an election for the congressional seat formerly held by John Lewis. On her Instagram account, where she regularly posts messages supporting Trump, she describes herself as a “solutionist,” an “equal opportunity capitalist” and “media manipulator.”
BIG NUMBER
$3,575. That’s how much Kutti appears to have contributed to the campaign of former Democratic presidential candidate Hilliary Clinton in 2007 and 2008, FEC records show. She also appears to have donated more than $3,300 to Stanton King in 2020, records show.
SURPRISING FACT
Kutti made headlines in 2020 for incendiary comments she made against an Illinois official while lobbying for a major cannabis firm. Among the remarks Kutti lodged at Toi Hutchinson, a cannabis advisor for Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D), was a comment referring to Hutchinson as a “slave” (both women are Black). Kutti also said she would “keep my knee on Toi W. Hutchinson’s neck,” an apparent reference to the police killing of George Floyd earlier that year.
FURTHER READING
Kanye West’s Publicist Reportedly Pressured A Georgia Poll Worker To Confess To Voter Fraud (Forbes)
How Trevian Kutti Went From Repping R. Kelly And Kanye West To Hyping A QAnon Fan And Trump’s Big Lie (Daily Beast)
R. Kelly, Kanye Confidante, Now A Pot Lobbyist, Wins Praise For Tenacity, Criticism For ‘Abhorrent’ Comments (Chicago Sun Times)
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