Posted on 12/08/2022 9:14:31 AM PST by simpson96
The world woke up Thursday morning to the news that WNBA star Brittney Griner had been released from Russian custody roughly 10 months after being arrested for bringing vape cartridges containing hashish oil through a Moscow airport.
Griner was freed from a Russian penal colony in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News.
Notably, the prisoner swap left another U.S. citizen in Russian custody.
Paul Whelan, a retired U.S. Marine veteran, was not involved in the exchange. Whelan was sentenced to 16 years in 2018 for espionage charges.
Whelan’s absence in the deal did not go unnoticed by Dallas Cowboys star linebacker Micah Parsons.
"Wait nah!! We left a marine?!! Hell nah," Parsons posted to his Twitter account.
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"We still not voting for you!" Parsons said in a now-deleted tweet.
As the tweet went viral, Parsons deleted his criticism of Biden, posting an explanation and an apology for tweeting "out of emotion."
"Just spoke to some people that I respect and trust. I should have been more educated on the topic and not tweeted out of emotion for my family and other who have served. For that I apologize," Parsons posted to Twitter.
"Also if what I’m told about the attempts to bring Ret Marine Paul Whelan home are true then the best outcome was accomplished. I pray Mr. Whelan comes home but am extremely happy for Brittney and her family. I am not too prideful to admit when I’ve made a mistake."
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Freed an arms dealer while the child groping chomo is trying to ban guns in the US.
The Woke got to the Jones family. Who would have thunk it?
“Also if what I’m told about the attempts to bring Ret Marine Paul Whelan home are true then the best outcome was accomplished. I pray Mr. Whelan comes home but am extremely happy for Brittney and her family. I am not too prideful to admit when I’ve made a mistake.”
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What mistake? The Biden administration didn’t bring home the marine.
Just another Biden failure he will touting as another grand success of his administration.
Never apologize to these traitors. It only emboldens them for more outrageous trickery.
My guess is the NFL and/or the Cowboy Organization told him to apologize or look for a new job.
Then “I apologize under duress and threat of termination”.
What’s to bet that the second she gets off the plane in the US, she immediately starts badmouthing the country?
Biden had to do this, he had to pander to his homo america hating base. Imagine if he had done the same swap but let out Whelan instead of Griner, the reaction of the leftists they would have blown a gasket..instead he did to Whelan what he did to those 13 brave American military members in Afghanistan, he let them rot
Sounds like Parsons wants to keep his job.
Thank you Micah Parsons, the pride of Penn State.
Ferocious on and off the field. Go Micha
Hey types like this “Wait nah!! We left a marine?!! Hell nah,” and then suddenly well thought complete sentences. Yea, that was him…
Micah needed “education”, and he got it.
Libtards thought he was a Trump supporter so he had to issue a disclaimer before the NFL cancelled him
Jerry Jones will be back on his knees Sunday.
I wonder if the timing of the release was to generate headlines if Walker won the Ga. run off?
Bidens new Motto: Leave all marines Behind, either in prison or dead”
ENFORCERS got to him.
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