
It’s being widely noted that Winner (a reported weightlifting aficionado) was among the few who appeared to predict Trump’s victory this past November, tweeting, “On a positive note, this Tuesday when we become the United States of the Russian Federation, Olympic lifting will be the national sport.The Steubenville, Ohio, rape trial concluded yesterday. Winner’s mother told The Guardian that she grew up near Corpus Christi, Texas, and was a linguist in the Air Force who is fluent in Farsi, Dari, and Pashto.Īccording to Winner’s Facebook page, which is now being analyzed by seemingly every news outlet on the planet, Winner was a former Bernie Sanders supporter who was outspokenly anti-Trump, referring to the president as a “piece of shit,” using #nevermypresident, and blasting Trump’s promise to build a Mexican border wall and his stances on the justice system and the EPA.


Air Force veteran and government intelligence contractor who was working in Georgia at Pluribus International Corporation, a contractor for agencies including the NSA. However, the report raises the possibility that Russian hacking may have breached at least some elements of the voting system.”

As The Intercept notes: “The NSA analysis does not draw conclusions about whether the interference had any effect on the election’s outcome and concedes that much remains unknown about the extent of the hackers’ accomplishments. It is still unclear what impact the Russian tampering had on the election result. The attack, which the memo says was likely successful, was planned as a one-two punch: First, hack VR Systems, whose software is used by local officials in several states to maintain the list of registered voters then, pose as VR Systems to send an email blast to an estimated 122 local election officials, tricking them into clicking on a fake company manual and stealing their information, too.
