Trump Co-Defendant Considered Fighting FBI Agents Who Came With Subpoena

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A former Donald Trump campaign aide was involved in a tense situation with FBI agents sent by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

As part of Smith's probe into Trump, former Black Voices for Trump Director Harrison Floyd was served with a grand jury subpoena by FBI agents near his home in Rockville, Maryland, on February 23, 2023. Floyd said two agents ran at him and he thought about grabbing their guns because they had not revealed themselves to be from the FBI.

"If he reached up, I probably could have tried to stop the muzzle, but he would have definitely threw my hand," a breathless Floyd said in video captured on police bodycam. "The other one was right next to me...so, if I went for that gun, and he pulled a gun, now I'm fighting two guys with guns. I backed up and went away...I could've been killed really f****** easily, if I wasn't smart."

The aftermath of the incident was caught on the bodycam and showed Floyd sounding out of breath and without a shirt on speaking to police.

Harrison Floyd listens during a hearing before Judge Scott McAfee in the 2020 Georgia election interference case at the Fulton County Courthouse on November 21, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was charged under the state's... Dennis Byron-Pool/Getty Images

The bodycam footage was captured on February 23, 2023, but the incident involving the FBI agents the same day was not recorded.

Floyd, who said he was with his daughter at the time, said: "I started yelling at one of them like 'who the f*** do you think you are?'"

Newsweek has reached out to Floyd's lawyer, Chris Kachouroff, via email for comment. The FBI referred Newsweek to the DOJ, which declined comment.

Smith is behind two criminal indictments brought against Trump. The first is in Florida and pertains to the alleged mishandling of classified documents.

The second case charges Trump in Washington, D.C., on four counts relating to his alleged attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election and his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The charges are: conspiracy to defraud the United States; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights. Trump denies all of the charges and says they are politically motivated.

Floyd has not been charged in Smith's case in Washington but is one of Trump's co-defendants in Georgia, where both are charged under the state's anti-racketeering (RICO) laws.