A Chicago-based publicist who worked with R. Kelly and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, is among the 19 indicted Monday for her alleged involvement in a scheme to pressure an election worker in Fulton County, Georgia, to falsely admit to committing election fraud in 2020.
Trevian Kutti is a publicist who has posted pro-Trump messages on social media and more recently worked as an Illinois marijuana lobbyist. She is facing three charges of conspiring to commit solicitation of false statements and writings, influencing witnesses, and violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the state's racketeering law.
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Kutti posted about the indictment after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced it at a press conference late Monday. She shared a screenshot of a TMZ article announcing Kutti's past association with West and also posted a pro-Trump meme, which is a common theme among her social media uploads.
Just hours after the indictment, Kutti posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, a clip from a Dave Chappelle skit with the caption: "TRUMP MUHF***N 2024."
The Trump fan and former Ye associate was recruited by Harrison Floyd, the leader of Black Voices for Trump and a co-defendant in the indictment, to travel to Atlanta, where she was tasked to reach out to Ruby Freeman, a local election worker. Kutti allegedly lied to Freeman's neighbor and claimed she was a "crisis manager" there to assist Freeman, according to the 98-page indictment.
When she met with Freeman, she asked her to confess to voter fraud, the allegation that Trump had pushed after losing the presidency to Joe Biden, according to the indictment.
After Freeman's accusations about Kutti became public in 2021, a spokesperson for Ye, Pierre Rougier, told Reuters that Kutti wasn't associated with the rapper or any of his enterprises at the time of the alleged incident with Freeman. The 'Heartless' rapper himself was a candidate for the 2020 ticket and even managed to get his name on the ballots in nine states that year, but failed to achieve the requirements in most other states.
Stephen Cliffgard Lee, a 70-year-old Lutheran minister at Living Word Lutheran Church, is also facing the same charges as Floyd and Kutti in connection to the alleged incident with Freeman.
The trio is charged with conspiracy to commit solicitation of false statements and writings for allegedly trying to convince Freeman to testify in Trump's favor and falsely admit to election fraud.
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The grand jury returned the 19-person, 41-count indictment on Monday night, which Trump called "a continuation of the greatest and longest-running Witch Hunt in American history." The former president himself is charged with 13 counts, making it his fifth indictment in four criminal cases this year.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Kutti, Lee, Floyd, and Rougier for responses.