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 Rally Closes New Hampshire Restaurant for a Week (for nothing)
July 10, 2020
A restaurant in New Hampshire is closing its doors for a full week over safety concerns regarding President Donald Trump's upcoming rally. The Country View Restaurant in Greenland confirmed that it shut on July 9 and won't reopen until the following Thursday, citing concerns from their employees. Trump is scheduled to hold an outdoor rally at the Portsmouth International Airport on Saturday evening."After many discussions here at CVR among our employees and in light of their personal concerns for their health and safety, we have decided that we will be closing the restaurant temporarily from Thursday 7/9 and will reopen on Thursday 7/16," the restaurant states on its website. "We hope you all understand and look forward to seeing you on 7/16 when we are back open." Speaking to Seacoast Online, Country View owner Sandra Mackmann said the decision to close was "frankly was a very easy decision" due to potential COVID-19 health risks, despite the business being down 60 percent. Mackmann said she asked her employees if they were comfortable serving patrons throughout the weekend of Trump's arrival and received a "unanimous no" within one hour."I have grave concerns about being open with so many out-of-state people in the area," Mackmann said. "We are on the major thoroughfare going into Pease [location of Trump's rally]. We're concerned about the community, as well, because whatever we get, they get."The move to close the restaurant arrived after health experts in Oklahoma linked a rise of COVID-19 in the state to Trump's rally and counter protests in Tulsa in late June."In the past few days, we've seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we just connect the dots," Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart told the Associated Press. Despite a lower-than expected turnout, more than 6,000 people still attended Trump's indoor campaign rally at the BOK Center arena. Portsmouth's Health Department issued an advisory that all those attending Trump's rally at the airport should wear a mask. Those going to the event will also be asked to sign a waiver declaring they understand an "inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present" and will assume responsibility if they become infected. New Hampshire is seen as one of the key states in which Trump could flip as he seeks to defeat Joe Biden in November. In 2016, Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton won New Hampshire by a margin of just 0.4 percent. Previously speaking to Newsweek, Thomas Gift, a lecturer in political science at University College London, said events such as the one in Tulsa were more about Trump boosting his support base rather than trying to win over new voters."Not only does Trump clearly think that in-person events are more effective, but they also provide an opportunity for the president to showcase that the pandemic is being contained and that life in the US is back to.
"(Biden’s) own chief of staff, Ron Klain, would say last year that it was pure luck, that they did ‘everything possible wrong’ (with H1N1). And we learned from that."
"There are estimates that by the end of the term of this administration, they will have lost more jobs than almost any other presidential administration."
That Rose Garden event — there's been a great deal of speculation about it — my wife Karen and I were there and honored to be there. Many of the people who were at that event, Susan, were actually tested for coronavirus, and it was an outdoor event, which all of our scientists r...
