We've now had a couple days with many threads about the Trump indictment. We've seen the liberal reaction to the indictment (mostly elation) and the conservative reaction (a lot about two systems of justice, political prosecution, and election interference).
Does anyone want to talk about how they think this indictment will impact Biden and Dems in the 2024 election?
Trump has already been receiving special treatment, opening Democrats to criticism Trump successfully intimidates, resulting in exposure of the farcical nature
of claims, "no one is above the law".
Trump was POTUS until shortly before Ms. Winner was finally released from custody,
serving the longest period in custody, ever, more than four years. for the offense of releasing one lassifiedv document embarrassing to Trump.
Trump not only still walks the streets, he was photographed just hours ago with co-conspirator in violating the Espionage Act, Walt Nauta, in a Georgia Waffle House!
Denied bail. Reality Winner, after three full years' incarceration, was denied compassionate release during covid-19 epidemic, contracting the disease in federal prison...
"..When FBI agents arrived at her home on June 3, 2017, Winner didn’t insist on consulting a lawyer, and the FBI agents failed to inform her of her
Miranda rights when Winner was arrested
However, one of the prosecutors at her bail hearing said, "The government is not in any way suggesting the defendant has become a jihadist or that she is a Taliban sympathizer."
On January 31, 2018, the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court order blocking Winner from posting bond, determining that no combination of conditions would reasonably assure her presence at trial, thus ensuring that she remained in jail until her trial,
[52] which was scheduled to begin on October 15, 2018.
[53]
A "Stand with Reality" campaign was formed by representatives from
Courage to Resist, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation and the
Freedom of the Press Foundation with the goal of "raising public awareness" to ensure that Reality Winner received a fair trial.
[54] Billie Winner-Davis, mother of Reality Winner, called on members of the public to join the campaign.
[55]
On June 21, 2018, Winner asked the court to allow her to change her plea to guilty.
[56] On June 26, she pleaded guilty to one count of felony transmission of national defense information.
[57][58] Winner's plea agreement with prosecutors called for her to serve five years and three months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
[59] No one has ever received a longer sentence for leaking classified information to a media outlet.
[31]
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Release from prison
On June 2, 2021, Winner was transferred from prison to a transitional facility,
[68] the
San Antonio, Texas, Residential Reentry Management center.
[69] According to Alison Grinter Allen, Winner's lawyer, she left prison early as a result of "good behavior" while inside, and not because of compassionate release. Betsy Reed, the editor-in-chief of
The Intercept, commented, "Selective and politically motivated prosecutions of leakers and whistleblowers under the Espionage Act – which dramatically escalated under Barack Obama, opening the door for the Trump
Justice Department's abuses – are an attack on the First Amendment that will one day be judged harshly by history."
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