Turns out Reality Winner wanted to set the White House on fire and join the Taliban
Reality winner was denied bail because she had actually written in her notebook that she wanted to join the Taliban:
FOX NEWS – The woman accused of leaking classified information once wrote she wanted “to burn the White House Down…find somewhere in Kurdistan to live,” prompting prosecutors on Thursday to argue she would flee the country if she was released on bond.
Reality Winner appeared before a judge in Augusta, Ga., on Thursday who ordered her to remain jailed until her trial. Prosecutors argued that the 25-year-old might try to flee the U.S. if she was released on bond. They added that Winner wrote in her notebook alleged plans to set the White House on fire, travel to Afghanistan and pledge her allegiance to the Taliban, WSB-TV reported.
Winner also called her mother while in jail and coached her on what tell the media, urging her to say that her daughter was “scared.”
“Mom, those documents. I screwed up,” Winner also reportedly confessed to her mom in the recorded jailhouse phone call.
Winner also allegedly told her sister she was “pretty, white and cute” and that Winner believed her bond hearing would play out in her favor, according to the news station.
Here parents argued that she wrote those things in jest, but the judge still denied her bail because her statements bothered him:
Winner’s mother and stepfather defended their daughter, telling the judge she had no criminal history and that she would not attempt to flee. They added they would use their 20-acre home in Kingsville, Texas, to finance her bond.
“She offered up her life for this nation and to see her treated so vilely is an insult to every person who’s ever worn a uniform,” Gary Davis, Winner’s stepfather, told WSB-TV.
In court, Winner’s defense attorney Titus Nichols said his client was being punished for being a typical tech-savvy millennial and exaggerating the threat she poses.
“Because my client is a millennial and she knows how to use technology, that’s somehow proof of evil intent,” Nichols said. “The government is scraping and clawing to build a mountain out of a molehill.”
However, the judge said whether Winner’s violent words were “a jest or not, it still concerns” him. Though prosecutors don’t think Winner is a jihadist or terrorist sympathizer.
I thought our country vetted people before they got to the level of being able to see classified information? I mean I think some of this would be relevant, don’t you?
Also, do you really think her being “pretty, white and cute” will help her in her trial? I think she should be more worried about whether or not it will help her in prison.
