Posted on 08/08/2022 7:48:46 AM PDT by conservative98
“I want [Brittney Griner] to return back home. … [but] we cannot trade that horrible human being for her. It’s just not a fair trade,” professional basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom said during a Friday appearance on Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum.
Freedom, who has been an outspoken critic on human rights issues in countries such as Communist China, officially added the “Freedom” to his name after becoming a U.S. citizen in 2021.
WNBA player Griner, who was arrested in February in a Moscow airport with CDB oil in her luggage, was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison on drug charges by a Russian court Thursday morning. The Biden administration reportedly made an offer to swap Brittney for convicted arms dealer and “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout, who is being held on a 25-year sentence in the U.S. for selling weapons to a Columbian terror group.
“I’ve been following her case very closely and the one thing that I will say, we cannot be sending a merchant of death. A person who is responsible for thousands of lives by selling illegal weapons in Africa, in Asia, and we cannot trade that horrible human being for her. It’s just not a fair trade,” Freedom, who was raised in Turkey, told host Martha MacCallum.
“First of all, you know, she pleaded guilty and the sentence is harsh, and of course, like everyone else, I want her to return back home because I know how the Russian jails can get tough,” Freedom told MacCallum
“I know one thing that she misses: the national anthem, every word of the national anthem in that Russian jails,” Freedom said of Griner, who has protested the National Anthem being played during WNBA games.
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He’s right. So was Trump when he was speaking his mind on this a week ago. If Biden compromises national and world security so an irresponsible person is returned to the US, it is a really bad look that makes an already weak looking US look even weaker. Her sentence is absurd, but let her lawyers work this for now.
Biden ought to tell the Russian ambassador to the United States that Putin can keep Ms. (or is it Mr.) Griner (one cannot tell with these queer people) for nine years.
Plus other countries will follow suit.
Did anyone else here know that “Brittney” the America hater was born an actual man?
I’m wondering if the Russians will play “her” game or just put her with the males.
Insane world we are in.
Biden will follow the example of his puppetmaster, who gave up mucho bad guys in order to get the American Taliban back.
They both are terrible people so it seems like a fair trade
How did it change from Hash oil to CBD oil?
I fully expect biden to do this.
Just like pelosi, if there is any way at all to make it worse they will.
Hey Russia, if you are listening.
Air this out in public. The media likes to be in ths middle so let them.
Offer up the Merchant of Death for either Brittney Griner or Marine Paul Whelan. But not both.
Tell Biden it’s his choice as to who they will release.
That sure would put Biden in a hella’va predicament.
Blacks would go ape if he did not choose Griner.
I don't.
When Trump comes back in 2025, I think he can swap Britt for AOC.
Griner knelt during the anthem-—does she miss kneeling????
Griner broke the law in Russia and that doesn't make her a hero... *except to democrats who love criminals... and murderers.)
Russia should wait until Assange loses his last extradition appeal, then offer Griner for Assange. That’s what I want.
Start claiming that the Russian judge called her the N-word, and someone hung a noose in the women's shower.
CBD oil makes more sense for a professional athlete.
It is supposed to relieve pain, help you sleep, and reduce anxiety.
That’s the best idea I have heard so far. Trade Brittney for AOC.
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