Russia Dampens Biden Admin’s Hopes Of
Prisoner Swap For Detained WNBA Star
The Daily Caller,
by
Micaela Burrow
Original Article
Posted By: Black Conservative Voice,
7/29/2022 8:38:13 AM
Russia said Thursday it was not close to a trade for the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, just a day after the U.S. revealed it placed an offer on the table for her freedom.
The U.S. initially proposed a prisoner exchange in June, offering to release notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout for Griner, according to CNN. While both sides have been in negotiations for months, Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for Russia’s foreign ministry, said little progress had been made, according to Reuters.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Scottyboy 7/29/2022 8:45:33 AM (No. 1231793)
If Putin would trade that dope smoking Amazon for Colin Kaepernick, I think it would make a lot of folks happy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
slipstik 7/29/2022 8:58:18 AM (No. 1231807)
I.ask.again. Is there some reason we want that America hating woman back?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 7/29/2022 8:58:43 AM (No. 1231809)
Keep la négresse.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
kar120c 7/29/2022 9:06:02 AM (No. 1231816)
Regardless of how one feels about Brittney Griner, this is a disaster for the Biden administration.
A prisoner exchange is never, never announced until after all sides have agreed, and the exchange is set in motion (prisoners on both sides are transported to embarkation point). Often, it is not announced until after the exchange has taken place.
I'm afraid, whether one is for him or against him, it is clear that Mr. Biden keeps reminding us how inept he truly is.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Sanchin 7/29/2022 9:08:23 AM (No. 1231819)
This president and the State Department can spend time and energy trying to bring home 2 prisoners. One who by all accounts broke Russian law, but given her skin color and sexual preference is special and deserves all this effort, BUT they can not sit down with Russia and try and end the SMO in Ukraine. This government and its neocon lackeys are happy to sacrifice every Ukrainian on the altar of NATO while creating economic hardships for most Europeans. Photo-ops in irrelevant magazines are the priority and homage and submission to the LGBTQ crowd who apparently controls the United States.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mizzmac 7/29/2022 9:16:38 AM (No. 1231827)
Straight up trade: We send you "The Big Guy" for the dope smoking tall gal?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/29/2022 9:25:44 AM (No. 1231837)
So we propose to trade a notorious arms dealer to Russia right when Russia needs arms more than ever. And in return, we get a quota lesbian pothead. Sounds like one of the best deal's thus far from the Brandon administration. One can guess soon that the LNBA will not have the Let's Go Brandon chant replace the Notional anthem soon.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Safari Man 7/29/2022 9:40:19 AM (No. 1231848)
A fair trade would be: we send them LeBron James, they send Griner to Siberia.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W 7/29/2022 9:52:54 AM (No. 1231861)
There are no WNBA 'stars'. There are only WNBA players.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Sully 7/29/2022 9:53:37 AM (No. 1231864)
So...we're gonna trade for a playa who doesn't wanna be on our team and thinks we are evil? I'd rather trade for a draft pick.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
padiva 7/29/2022 9:55:39 AM (No. 1231867)
The US can throw in Martha's Vineyard and a Hunter painting.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
VELOX 7/29/2022 10:06:00 AM (No. 1231876)
I am sorry for her, but she knowing broke the drug laws in Russia. She is not a star there and to her she is just a felon.
The fact that any effort is being made to trade a criminal of there’s for a criminal of ours is ridiculous. Especially such a non hero as she is. She openly hates America and openly says so. Let her sell that story to the Russian press and maybe they will help her get out of jail. I have traveled to communist countries and when there did everything I could to follow their laws. I once had a woman approach me about getting a good rate for money exchange. I actually thought she may have been trying to trap me. I told her that I always obeyed the laws in her country to the best of my ability as I was happy just to be able to share their wonderful culture! Breaking the laws in any dictatorship is stupid and very dangerous. In her case it’s if you do the crime, do the time. Now if an American citizen gets railroaded, that a different story. Even an ignorant person knows there are drug laws in every country. The fact that she was hiding the drugs shows she was flaunting Russia’s laws.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
paral04 7/29/2022 10:23:41 AM (No. 1231899)
Bout is too dangerous to set free. Let the Russians keep Griner. She caused her own issues and let her and her family deal with it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Luandir 7/29/2022 10:25:47 AM (No. 1231902)
#2, It's because Biden is trying to score points with his intersectional-left base. They're all he's got at this point.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
laurenc 7/29/2022 10:29:21 AM (No. 1231904)
Let's throw in a couple of billion $$$ for the Russians to sweeten the deal.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 7/29/2022 10:33:47 AM (No. 1231911)
"WNBA Star"
that and 25 cents gets you into a wnba game..
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 7/29/2022 10:34:48 AM (No. 1231912)
This is like Obama's Beau Bergendahl 2.0 just as dumb and stupid for no reason. Leave the dumb ball player where she sits, we don't need her.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Donna M 7/29/2022 10:45:44 AM (No. 1231925)
A stay in a Russian prison would teach Britney Griner the virtues of the USA.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/29/2022 11:24:26 AM (No. 1231972)
Putin is no fool and has no qualms about using whatever leverage he has regardless of the impact. Europe is going to freeze this winter unless it stops resupplying Ukraine, and Britney Griner is going to rot in a Russian prison for a while longer.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 7/29/2022 3:05:56 PM (No. 1232155)
China is treating Biden like a fool, and Russia is doing the same. They know that they simply have to wait for the USA to implode, then they will be the countries in charge.
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Guns are bad and have to go (the dems) but we’re willing to trade an arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death” for a professional athlete who broke the law.