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Brittney Griner Negotiator Says Putin
Overruled Double Swap at Last Minute

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 12/10/2022 10:23:21 AM

Brittney Griner negotiator Bill Richardson has expressed his sadness that Paul Whelan didn't come home together with the basketball star, adding that he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin overruled his advisers at the end of negotiations, dismissing a "two-for-two" exchange of prisoners. "I was sad that Paul Whelan was not part of it. I've been for four years trying to find formulas to get Paul back, but it always seems that, at the very end, there's a roadblock," Richardson, a former New Mexico governor and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, told CBC on Friday. "I thought there would

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They are trying to create a backstory as to why Paul Whelan was left behind. No other news reports mentioned a 2-for-2 swap was in the works.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 12/10/2022 10:29:22 AM (No. 1353547)
I'm surprised they didn't try to blame President Trump.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: cjjeepercreeper 12/10/2022 10:32:34 AM (No. 1353549)
All I have to say about this is Bill Richardson, lol.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: rockeysroomie 12/10/2022 10:32:53 AM (No. 1353550)
Maybe they were talking about the Russian prisoner, Vadim Krasikov, held in Germany OP.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Namma 12/10/2022 10:55:05 AM (No. 1353567)
I say BS. We had the upper hand in this swap. All 4 of our Americans should have been on the negotiation table! Putin needs the merchant of death! I doubt ole joe knows anything about what happened. I blame the guy controlling brandon. Which, I believe, did this horrible swap on purpose. PRESIDENT Trump would never have allowed this to happen.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: offrope 12/10/2022 10:57:08 AM (No. 1353571)
Looks to me like his pants may be on fire.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Venturer 12/10/2022 10:59:39 AM (No. 1353573)
I suppose some people might believe Richardson . I choose not to. If it was a two for two swap who was the other terrorist that Russia wanted.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: john56 12/10/2022 11:05:17 AM (No. 1353580)
Sometimes, the best deal is no deal. And that's what should have happened here.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 12/10/2022 11:06:45 AM (No. 1353583)
How much dirty cash did Richardson receive for his role in this travesty?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 12/10/2022 11:10:21 AM (No. 1353590)
If true, then Biden should have walked. Trump would have.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 12/10/2022 11:13:03 AM (No. 1353592)
I met Richardson briefly, years ago when he was Sec of Energy and I gave him a tour of our new supercomputer, then one of the most powerful computers in existence. He came off as a oily, used car salesman type. I wouldn't necessarily trust anything he says.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: nwcudagal 12/10/2022 11:15:03 AM (No. 1353593)
Bill Richardson has a lot to be sorry for besides this.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: RCFLyer98 12/10/2022 11:17:26 AM (No. 1353598)
Newsweak and Bill Richardson. Nope, I don't believe a word of it. Biden should've walked!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Birddog 12/10/2022 11:22:05 AM (No. 1353610)
In the days to come methinks we will also find that seized funds, planes, yachts of various russian oligarchs were also released. IE: Biden PAID $billions as well as releasing the $Billionaire gun runner. Much has been made of getting her "Home for Christmas"...is there anything about her that is even demonstrably "Christian"?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bad-hair 12/10/2022 11:25:53 AM (No. 1353615)
"Pants" Richardson still has a job ? He must have something good on both Clintons. Maybe he still has something in his pants.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: bad-hair 12/10/2022 11:34:49 AM (No. 1353635)
PS Never underestimate slow Joe's ability to F things up.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Highvoltage 12/10/2022 11:42:54 AM (No. 1353645)
You thought, you hoped but you left a marine behind, a marine to took the oath to defend our country. You released a murderer whose victims will never go home to grieving families. Shame, shame.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Rama41 12/10/2022 11:47:38 AM (No. 1353648)
Putin said only one? Did he say which one, or was that up to Biden? Andrea Mitchell originally reported the choice was Biden's and he chose the WNBA trade, then, (like another NBC "reporter" and Paul Pelosi) rewrote her story. Must be too late to ask Bill Richardson what he knows.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: udanja99 12/10/2022 11:51:54 AM (No. 1353651)
This is a lame attempt at CYA. Sorry, it didn’t work.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Kate318 12/10/2022 11:58:06 AM (No. 1353654)
Bill Richardson of Lolita Island fame?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: bighambone 12/10/2022 12:00:01 PM (No. 1353658)
Bill Richardson is a longtime partisan liberal Democrat, so common sense will tell you that he will always back up the Biden and his crew’s side of the story of the Britney Griner deal with Russia. I would say that from the beginning after Russia realized they snagged a well known member of the US LGBTQI community for violating a minor Russian customs law, and that as soon as Biden opened his mouth demanding that Griner, a known politically radical Black female lesbian, be released by the Russians, along with the fact that Griner fits smack across the very favored categories of Democrat identity politics. That the Russians also quickly figured out that they had also effectively stumbled across a potential “get out of jail free card” for their major operative also known as the “Merchant of Death” Victor Bout. As the Russians also absolutely knew that the 101% political Biden would most likely agree to do almost anything to buy future votes of the US LGBTQI community by getting the Russians to release Griner. So after Biden showed his cards by making public statements concerning Griner being detained in Russia, the Russians raised up the ante by sentencing Griner to nine years in a Russian gulag for a minor offense, for which if there was no Biden political interest shown at that point, the Russians instead could and probably would have easily just kicked Griner out of Russia. Clearly Biden and his naive crew then played right into the diabolical Russians game, resulting in a very unequal Bout for Griner exchange taking place, and we find ourself where we are today, with Paul Whelan, just a regular old American White guy and former active duty US Marine still incarcerated in Russia.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: bigfatslob 12/10/2022 12:08:08 PM (No. 1353665)
I don't believe the 'brown Pillsbury Doughboy' (Richardson) on this. This is some CYA for the low IQ, dimwitted, pervert fraud Joe Biden. FJB
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Reply 22 - Posted by: snapper451 12/10/2022 12:16:18 PM (No. 1353670)
Richardson, a self loving liberal hack, who served the Clintons and has milked it ever since. He was complicit in the crime against Paul Whelan. You don't trade the Merchant of Death, aged 55, for as the Russians describe her as "a black lesbian with a drug problem". The world is a worse place today because of the Biden regime's weakness and stupidity, or it's mission to destroy America.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Ozwestie 12/10/2022 2:49:27 PM (No. 1353747)
Well in that case they should have called Putins bluff and called the whole deal off.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: mifla 12/10/2022 3:11:32 PM (No. 1353760)
Putin knows that Biden is a lightweight. He wanted to the world to know that Biden is a weak leader. I can see this story being believable.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: anniebc 12/10/2022 3:21:45 PM (No. 1353764)
Richardson is a liar, so.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Msquared112 12/10/2022 3:23:07 PM (No. 1353767)
That image is the world thumbing its nose at Sleepy Joe.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: MickTurn 12/10/2022 8:41:19 PM (No. 1353880)
Once Putie knew he had Joeboy in a vice he tightened it to hear Joeboy scream...
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