Posted on 12/08/2022 12:58:48 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced a barrage of questions Thursday about President Biden’s decision to release notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout as part of a prisoner swap for basketball star Brittney Griner — while leaving fellow Americans Paul Whelan and Marc Fogel behind.
“It was either Brittney or no one at all and we’re not going to apologize for that,” Jean-Pierre said at her regular press briefing.
Jean-Pierre added that the Kremlin was “not willing to negotiate in good faith” to release Whelan, who Russia convicted of spying, and side-stepped questions about Fogel — who, like Griner, was sentenced to prison this year for possessing a small amount of marijuana.
Griner, 32, pleaded guilty in July to possessing a small amount of cannabis oil when she was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport on Feb. 17, one week before Russia invaded Ukraine.
“How do you dispel the public perception that if you are a celebrity or a professional athlete, you get preferential treatment in a situation like this?” asked CBS journalist Weijia Jiang.
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LIES!
Then no one.
Someone said that Sean Vanity was saying Russia offered a choice of Griner or the marine, but not both.
If that was the case than NO DEAL that simple..if he/she was the only choice to be released and NOT Whalen than you say “Ok no deal than” and hang up
Id take the marine, but Biden knew the blow back he would have gotten had he left the black lesbo trans behind, if he had chosen the white hetero male the commies would have rioted in the streets so he had to pander to them
not sure why we care about someone who takes drugs to another country.
In many countries should of would been executed to had her hands cut off.
‘Sean Vanity was saying...’
There were and are a multitude of reasons why my wife and I stopped watching or listening to him a long long time ago....
Proving once again that WHITE LIVES DON’T MATTER. F*** the White SUPREMACY House.
F every one of these nincompoops in this ridiculous WH.
They’re wearing everyone out with their constant stupidity.
In poker we call that a bluff.
Exactly!! No exchange.
We are so effed as a country. In every way, it seems like.
The return of a stupid idiot athlete, and they got their arms dealer back.
Spit.
Whoring for Dr. Oz and Herchel Walker was embarrassing.
They are terrible negotiators. Should have read “Art of the Deal”/
Deliberate.
Anarcho-tyranny.
Hannity is a no go on my radio, even though he has good guests. He is so repetitive, with stories about his hard working, blue collar youth and the effing ‘wonderful’ FIB. And that Linda hag is incredibly annoying.
Well let’s get her vaxxed up!
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