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Reality Winner will ask Trump to reverse her ‘so unfair’ prison sentence
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | August 31, 2018 | Johnny Edwards

Posted on 09/01/2018 7:00:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

When her mother told her that President Donald Trump had tweeted about her case, Reality Winner braced for the worst. After all, ever since her arrest for leaking a top-secret document, strangers on the internet have called her a traitor, mocked her name and gloated over her legal predicament.

But Trump didn’t gloat and he didn’t mock, at least not her. The day after a federal judge handed her a record-setting prison sentence, Winner heard her mother read the president’s words through a phone receiver at the Lincoln County jail, where she’s been incarcerated for more than a year.

“Gee, this is ‘small potatoes’ compared to what Hillary Clinton did!” Trump wrote in a multi-tweet diatribe against his appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “So unfair Jeff, Double Standard.”

Winner, in a phone interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday, said she will ask Trump for clemency as a result of that tweet, finding out if the president meant what he wrote.

“I roared like a lion,” Winner said, describing her reaction to his post. “I dropped the phone and I sat on the floor and cried and said, ‘I want my family,’ over and over again.”

Winner said her legal team is already working on her pardon application....

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: hillary; iran; leaker; nsa; pardon; reality; realitywinner; trump; winner
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I remember looking at a list of top test scorers in the Military.

I believe Intelligence was at the top; Meteorological Observer was number 2.


61 posted on 09/02/2018 3:36:56 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: SunkenCiv

-—had a great skipper once that addressed the crew on our way to Nam with the statement, “beware of the press, they will put your name in the news, your ass in prison and your family on welfare”.


62 posted on 09/02/2018 3:55:12 AM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sentence should have included “hate crime” considerations...She, clearly, was motivated by her barackian and moochian example of their hate for the U.S.


63 posted on 09/02/2018 3:12:40 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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