Posted on 08/04/2022 6:28:44 AM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
Russian prosecutors have asked a court to sentence the US basketball star Brittney Griner to almost 10 years in prison on drugs charges.
The Olympic gold medallist was detained in February at an airport near Moscow when cannabis oil vape cartridges were allegedly found in her luggage.
Cannabis is illegal in Russia for both medicinal and recreational use.
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Some one wants to get a huge ransom for kidnapping her.
She gets 9 years, and all the black athletes in professional sports, many of them millionaires, will fund raise to pay the future extortion fee to some Russian oligarch. The Russians know how to play these liberals and lefties here in the USA.
Griner will be home by New Years 2023.
Too lenient - let it rot.
So confusing..how to keep up with these gender issues????
After someone pleads guilty, I think you can drop the “allegedly”.
I'm surprised she wants to come back, they all pledge to leave when Trump is President.
Throw away the key.
I doubt the Russians are in any big hurry.
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Agree. The Ruskies know just how much Joe & Company want her back before the election so they can score points with black voters. They’re not going to give him that card to play.
Of course if the Left have their way, by the time Griner gets back we’d have a new anthem.
Russians came to add to the list...wanted their agent guy held in Berlin for murder on the release list. Germans were telling Blinken a blunt-NO. This whole thing has become a comedy now.
“She” didn’t realize the black athlete exemption isn’t in effect in Russia.
Tie her own rope, tie her own rope, tie her own rope...
I’m taking my family to Dubai later this month, and have already looked into the “Dont Do’s” there and discussed with my wife and kids.
no I wont insult Islam, or take photos of people without their permission, or try and buy some weed, or drink in public, or tongue my wife in public etc....
Oh no ..how will womens basketball survive?
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The Russians are playing senior Biden like an old dust ball. I hope this “he/she/it “ (third ) world super slob gets at least a four year vacation in Russia’s version of the Hanoi Hilton.
Yep. And I don’t think they even had to tell us not to bring controlled substances. That’s a common sense thing.
If they were smart (on the world stage) they would sentence her to time served and immediate deportation, and prohibit her from traveling to Russia ever again.
Went to London four years ago. Minded my manners and kept reminding myself I wasn’t in the US.
Because of the LGBTQRS lobby Biden will trade Alaska to Russia to get her back so he can be the hero of the queers. I’d let her rot.
Any chance this arrest and show trial and heavy sentence was intended *all along* to mobilize the wokey weepers in the US and to pressurize the Big Guy to do an unwise prisoner swap? Win Win for the other guys, eh?
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