Reality Winner lawyer says he laughed reading Trump’s tweet about client

Published August 24, 2018 6:19pm ET



An attorney for former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner says that he laughed after reading President Trump’s tweet calling his client’s crime “small potatoes” and describing her prosecution as “so unfair” and evidence of a double standard for Hillary Clinton.

The jailed leaker pleaded guilty to providing The Intercept a copy of a report on Russian attempts to hack state election systems and was sentenced Thursday to more than 5 years in prison, one of the longest terms ever for releasing classified information to a news outlet.

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