Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
Amazing! Thank you. My daughter Reality Leigh Winner is yet another victim of this admin. Doing hard time for bringing the truth to light. #FreeRealityWinnerhttps://t.co/wU0sg3LeRs
Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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A political attack on Republican NH Gov. Chris Sununu by the DGA
The DGA says, Chris Sununu has repeatedly ignored expert opinion and sent mixed messages to Granite Staters in the middle of the COVID-19 public health emergency. He has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the crisis saying there was a “very low risk” to New Hampshire as experts were warning that deaths nationwide could reach into the millions. He also parroted the completely false Trump talking point that COVID-19 is just like the flu, again flying in the face of expert guidance.
2020 Governor’s Race
According to a survey at the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, 73% of 650 Granite Stater Panel participants approved of the job Sununu is doing. Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says “States have done a great job. I think in New Hampshire, the governor and everyone who’s working on the emergency task force, they’re doing a very good job under very difficult circumstances". The vast majority of Granite Staters, including a majority of independents and Democrats, approve of the governor’s leadership, and he has received bipartisan praise from Democrats like Senator Shaheen.
Editor's Note: Chris Sununu has been doing an excellent job working on the state's emergency crisis. 73% of people also believe approve of the job Chris Sununu is doing as well. There is really only one pick here :)
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