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It's been 130 days since WNBA star Brittney Griner was detained in Russia and her trial is about to start. Her wife wants US officials to do more to bring her home
CNN ^ | Thu June 30, 2022 | Abby Phillip and Steve Almasy

Posted on 06/30/2022 9:38:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, told CNN on Thursday she wants US officials to do whatever they have to do to bring the basketball legend home -- and she needs to see them do more.

In the only interview she is giving on the eve of her wife's trial in Russia, Cherelle Griner sat in the Phoenix Mercury locker room and called for more action.

"It's really, really difficult. This is not a situation where the rhetoric is matching the action," she said. "I do have to unfortunately push people to make sure that the things they're telling me is also matching their actions and so it's been the hardest thing to balance because I can't let up. It's over 130 days and BG's still not back."

Brittney Griner, 31, who has played in Russia during the WNBA's offseason, was arrested February 17 at a Moscow airport. Russian authorities claimed she had cannabis oil in her luggage and accused her of smuggling significant amounts of a narcotic substance, an offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: griner; russia
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To: kenmcg

My point Ken, is that Biden doesn’t even care about his own voters. He will not lose a single vote r/t his inattention to Griner, including Griner’s. Why SHOULD any Democrat pretend to care when their voters are sheeple?


81 posted on 07/01/2022 10:33:55 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Freedom4US

She’s lucky it wasn’t in North Korea. Look what happened to that idiot college student who decided to take a banner......


82 posted on 07/01/2022 10:35:44 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: LibertyWoman

Agreed

https://www.outsports.com/2020/7/29/21346824/brittney-griner-national-anthem-breonna-taylor-police-brutality-protest-wnba


83 posted on 07/01/2022 11:58:31 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Travis McGee

I thought it was a joke as well.‘ nope she is on her SECOND wife.
1st one didn’t last too long.


84 posted on 07/01/2022 12:01:07 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: MinorityRepublican

let’s move heaven and earth to get this American hating pituitary case home?..... naaahh!


85 posted on 07/01/2022 1:01:29 PM PDT by Hawleyish
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To: MinorityRepublican

If Brittney is returned, I hope she learned something from being in a country where she can’t shoot her big mouth off.


86 posted on 07/02/2022 7:02:58 AM PDT by KittyKares
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