By ALYSSA GUZMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
A Florida man who put who large Trump banners outside his home won a hotly contested legal battle against the county, which charged him $50 a day for the decorations.
Marvin Peavy began hanging banners from his Santa Rosa Reach balcony in 2020, with some reading: ‘Trump 2020’ and ‘Trump Now, Trump Won’ and ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’
Outside of election years, Walton County, which is heavily Republican, does not allow political banners to be hung from buildings and it charged Peavy $63,000 in fees since the battle began – fines he didn’t pay.
But on Wednesday, Peavy won his lawsuit against the county, arguing that it was violating his First Amendment rights to freedom of speech.
‘Their laws cannot supersede my First Amendment right, so they came after my constitutional rights, which they cannot do,’ he told WJHG.
‘It woke me up as a patriot.’
A judge ordered that Walton County pay Peavy $42,000 within 10 days of the decision and that any fines he was charged were not to be collected.
‘People love it, because people believe in American the Free,’ he told the local outlet.
Other signs he hung showed Trump dancing against the backdrop of an American flag emblazoned with the words: ‘Trump Coming Home 2025’.
Another of Peavy’s signs has Trump being called a ‘Legend’ and ‘Bulletproof,’ while a third one echoed the derogatory right-wing slogan used to denounce Joe Biden: ‘Let’s Go Brandon’.
His first sign went up in February 2020, something he was initially nervous to do. In response, he said critics ‘threw eggs at it’.
‘We have rights in this country,’ he said after the ruling. ‘My signs are going to hang regardless.’
Peavy isn’t the only one who likes interesting artwork hanging around his home, but so does President Donald Trump, who hung a framed copy of the New York Post’s cover with his mugshot on it.
The mugshot was first noticed on social media as it poked through the door of the Oval Office in a photo shared by Trump staffer Margo Martin last month.
The door to the Oval Office was left open, allowing the view into the hallway outside.
President Trump made history as the first former president to get his mugshot taken after he was arrested and fingerprinted at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta in October 2023.