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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Trump is going to SpaceX Launch
May 22, 2020
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
President Donald Trump will be in attendance on Wednesday when NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts from American soil for the first time in nearly a decade. White House officials tell us that Trump will travel to Central Florida to view the launch at Kennedy Space Center, the White House said Friday.
“Our destiny, beyond the Earth, is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security," Trump said.
President Donald Trump has indicated he wants to witness the launch. What Happened
Trump told reporters on Thursday that he may go to Florida to watch the launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which will carry two NASA astronauts, CBS News reports. The test flight is scheduled for takeoff on May 27, according to Space.com, a website focussed on astronomy and space exploration.
While on his way to Michigan to visit a Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) plant, Trump said jokingly to reporters, “I’m thinking about going. That'll be next week, to the rocket launch. I hope you're all going to join me.” Adding, “I'd like to put you all on the rocket and get rid of you for awhile.”
Why It Matters
According to space.com, SpaceX’s Demo-2 Mission will carry Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Crew Dragon on a month-long mission to the International Space Station. The Demo-2 Mission is the first crewed flight that SpaceX is undertaking under a multibillion-dollar contract to ferry astronauts to the station for NASA.
Since NASA retired its space shuttles, it has not flown a manned mission from Florida, using Russia’s Soyuz rockets to carry astronauts into space instead. The space agency is paying $90 million to Russia's space agency for a seat on a launch later in 2020.
NASA’s contracts with SpaceX and Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) are aimed at reducing costs and boosting the space industry in the United States. Trump has mandated NASA to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024.
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