'Set him up to fail': Legal expert says Fani Willis tricked Trump co-defendant

Harrison Floyd, the former leader of Black Voices for Trump and a co-defendant in the Georgia election racketeering case, was in court today over a violation of bond — and while he escaped pretrial detention for now, that's almost certainly in his future.

At least, that's the view of legal expert Katie Phang, who explained the new developments on Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "The ReidOut."

"You've been in that courtroom a lot. Please talk to us," said anchor Joy Reid. "First of all, the fact that Fani Willis is there in person making these arguments, and the fact that it seemed that Harrison Floyd did not respect the process. He seemed to pop off and shake his head and not take it seriously. Your thoughts?"

"I'm going to start with your last point first, and the reason why that's good news for D.A. Fani Willis' office is she just set him up to fail today, as did Judge [Scott] McAfee," said Phang.

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"And what do I mean by that?" she continued. "Well, with a tighter, more detailed, more narrow modified bond conditions for Harrison Floyd, when he violates — because we know he will — he shouldn't be reading how to be a Roman Emperor, he should be reading Crime for Dummies, because then he'd figure out how to not get into trouble. But it was a show of force. This was the first time D.A. Fani Willis, since the release of that indictment, has been in court for pretrial hearings. And it makes sense because it put the defense on notice of the kind of prosecutor, trial lawyer, litigator that Fani Willis delivers, the type of work and performance that she does."

"It was straight fire today, and that's what was needed, because this is the first time the D.A.'s office was on the offensive," Phang added. "On prior hearings it's been defense motions to dismiss, but today it was the state's motion to revoke his bond. And Harrison Floyd shows no discipline. He has no discipline. He doesn't listen to his lawyers, he doesn't listen. Sounds just like Donald Trump in my opinion, right? But now we have a much more narrow modified bond order, and it's just going to be violated, and I think very soon."

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