WNBA player Britney Griner arrested in Russia: updated: wokes expected sellout crowd, nope lol

still working on Paul Whelan

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-new...s-12-08-22/h_c54739bebefca63bc09639278edc8b48

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This was "the only deal we could make right now," senior Biden administration official says

From CNN's MJ Lee

US President Joe Biden was “personally involved and in constant touch” with his team as this deal came together in the final days and after he gave his personal green light to execute the trade. The briefings – and questions Biden asked his team – were constant, a senior administration official says.

Senior administration official adds that this was the right deal to make – and notably, “the only deal we could make right now.”

Biden "will speak to the importance of Brittney being brought home safely" in his remarks on Thursday morning, a White House official tells CNN,

He is also expected to address Paul Whelan, who remains imprisoned in Russia, and will reiterate the US "commitment to ensuring Paul Whelan comes home as well."

Contribution Betsy Klein

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What an embarrassment Biden is. A WNBA player for Bout?

 

If you think Griner was wrongly imprisoned, does this create an incentive for Putin to do it again?

 

Another example of fascist mindset. Hierarchy system for human value.

"The MARINE is still detained"

"For a WNBA player"


Like somehow she's less of a human or American citizen for being a lesbian WNBA player.

 

I don’t understand how an arms dealer is equivalent to an athlete. One person was committing crimes against humanity, and the other was committing a crime by bringing in some mar1juana oil. I would get if we released someone who was a Russian national who committed some low level crime for Griner: but an arms dealer?

edit: lol at that 1

 

Purely done to score points. Irresponsible.

 

Do you actually have any sincere knowledge about the current relevance of the dude being released and his ability to do harm today?

 

This is embarrassing. It sucks that she was in a BS situation, but this show of weakness only encourages this behavior. There are other Americans who are imprisoned, the fact that that she's moderately famous.. f**k that.

The demographic they want to score points with won't give a s**t. Next minor celebrity that gets caught in Russia better have to rot for their stupidity.

 

Is Whelan less of a person because he’s not a celebrity?

 

A marine for an arms dealer is not an equal trade either. That arms dealer shouldn’t have been released.

 

feels like we traded a 1st for a 7th. where does this trade rate on the Jimmy Johnson Trade Value Chart?

 

Maybe just maybe it's easier to get an American citizen back home when they broke a weed law vs an American accused of espionage.


So the difference in getting one person over the other isn't based on value of a human. The right and conservative side of the nation does place a hierarchy value on human life and definitely see this in a lense of "wait we got the black lesbian WNBA player over the white US Marine!?!"

 

Wait Lockeed Martin and Raytheon are detained in Russia?

 

You're absolutely pathetic.

 

That arms dealer will soon be taken out by a drone in Ukraine.

 

The merchant of death is washed. He needs a new nickname like the merchant of back pain.

Welcome home BG

 

Bring her home, even if she hates her country. Those other jailed americans can wait. They have no idea what its like to be a female, black and gay. She's been persecuted enough.