WNBA player Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia in February for bringing cannabis oil into the country while traveling for a basketball game. Griner brought vape cartridges with her containing cannabis oil, a prohibited substance in Russia. Today the 31-year-old was sentenced to nine years in Russian prison, after she was found guilty of possession and smuggling of illegal drugs.
The Biden administration is attempting to work out a prisoner exchange where Griner and Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine detained in 2018 in Russia of espionage charges, would be released in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
The White House released the following statement:
“Today, American citizen Brittney Griner received a prison sentence that is one more reminder of what the world already knew: Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney. It’s unacceptable, and I call on Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates. My administration will continue to work tirelessly and pursue every possible avenue to bring Brittney and Paul Whelan home safely as soon as possible.”
And his statement on the J6 political prisoners held in DC Gitmo??
BINGO !
Yes! Exactly!
Exactly Betsy!
**crickets**
They are not queer or black no privilege.
Betsy, wouldn’t it be hilariously appropriate if Putin offered this man for the immediate release of all the J6 prisoners?! A gut punch on steroids!!!!
Oh my!!! What a splendid idea, George!!!! If nothing else will it would force “Biden” to address this terrible terrible cruelty and Beria type persecution.
From your lips to Putin’s mouth.
A perfect opportunity for Putin to point out the hypocrisy of the faux outrage from this administration. But he must do it publicly and loudly so that everyone hears him.
And let’s not forget that this Griner person received a faster and fairer trial in Russia than our J6 fellows have yet gotten or are ever likely to get here…the “Land of the Free”.
Do you think they would go to this extent to free an athlete who was MAGA or a supporter of President Trump?
Somehow I doubt it.
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A J6 defendant just received eight years for walking around DC.
When Tamara Lich was in jail the left was overjoyed.
My friend that was in the Ottawa convoy is also a councillor. They docked him 90 days pay.
Political retribution is only allowed when it is done to conservatives.
DD
Sentenced for literally walking around outside— not even entering the building!
This is racism.
Every day victims are being severely injured and/ or murdered in cities across the country.
Few perpetrators are receiving sentences anywhere near 8 years— even for murder. Many are just turned loose— repeatedly!
To paraphrase Sundance, It is all a feature not a failure.
Of course not they would consider it a favor they were gone from the USA.
Who cares about the he/she? NOT the J6 folks!
Brittney is like Michell Obama,, neither one are a female, it’s going to be interesting to see how Brittney is confined over there, in a men’s prison I’d assume! Get the popcorn out on this one!
I am so happy for Brittney! Now she won’t have to listen to that horrible Star Spangled Banner nor be oppressed by the systemic racism of the United States of America.
😂 👍🏻
I remember some report of her saying she wasn’t read her rights. These morons who hate America must realize once leave this nation’s great soil you no longer gave any “rights”.
Other country’s don’t allow foreigners, especially illegals, to get special treatment.
This is on the education system here. By teaching we’re all onw world bs, and not teaching real geography and how other nations governance is different from ours.
And not learning what another nations laws and customs are is a sure fire way to end up in jail.
She gets what she deserves.
There are Countries that sail people like her off rooftops and that’s that. As the trite expression goes, you don’t miss something, till it’s gone.
Supposedly when she asked if they “knew about Miranda” they said “Yah vee know all about your girlfriends”
Not exactly true. The Muslims in England and in the European Union have often received light sentences for crimes or have gotten away with murder and other forms of lawlessness in their No-go zones.
Maybe LeBron can visit???
Hopefully he’ll have some cannabis oil in his suitcase, too.
Happy for her too!
Free at last from that raciss Amerika..
Not sure that insulting a country is a good idea when you are trying to get them to cooperate with you.
Joe has never been noted for his intelligence or tact.
Or for being sentient…
please you know this! Biden’s speakers went back channel with Russia and told them they remember the Russian Mayor bribe and will kneel accordingly, and to please know the letter is for American Consumption since decieving them is okay.
If I recall correctly, Russia has said we don’t want make a swap. So it’s all just more DC swamp kabuki theatre.
It has worked out pretty well for all Congressional Democrats, BLM, antifa, and a host of other miscreants so far, so….
what is the birth gender? If male does it go to male or female prison?
In Russia, they go by actual biology
It was surprisingly hard to find out the truth, but Brittney Griner is in fact a woman. A lesbian, not a trans. A 6’8″ woman. For real.
I saw pictures of it shirtless, there were no breasts and no scars at all of removal. So how does anyone know for sure? I suppose the pic could have been doctored but it didn’t look it.🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
That is not true. Brittney is intersex and was labeled a girl at birth, but has normal male testosterone levels, like Caster Semenya
Isn’t that a hermaphrodite:
“a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition”.
I have assumed that is what she is. She was born with both ovaries and male sex organs. At birth, the parents are told they can decide which way to go and I think most say female as they can remove the male sex organs at birth/newborn age.
Brittany was raised as a girl but I assume what happened is that at puberty when hormones kick in her testosterone level went up. She has the voice of a male, the body of a male…height of a male. I actually feel sorry for her as it must have been so hard to reach puberty and suddenly you are not developing as other girls. Her parents must know and I hope they told her what is going on.
I thought she was a morphydite.
https://buzzsouthafrica.com/us/is-brittney-griner-transgender-and-was-he-born-a-man-or-woman/
The Russian guards at the prison said it is a man.
She is female. If she were male, she would be much better at basketball than she is. Put that nonsense to rest with this simple fact.
And if Michelle Obama were male her arse wouldn’t be as wide as a horses.
Or a mule’s.
But Michelle was indeed born a male. Of that there is no doubt. Obama is a known homosexual which explains a lot. He has frequently been caught on camera calling Michelle by the name of Michael.
Wrong. Do your research, search intersex atheletes.
Here’s another point—-if it is really female, why do all the social media sites allow topless pics?
Thought that was against their rules?
For crying out loud . . . has nobody ever watched the movie “Midnight Express?”
All the warnings are there.
There was a tv series: Locked Up Abroad with weekly episodes from people that were arrested and did their time in foreign jails (and lived to talk about it). Ms Greiner clearly thought her professional basketball status would make her exempt.
Old movie, small cable TV show. Heck just about every rock star ever. All sorts of travel warnings.
Somehow, it is all ignored.
‘That will never happen to me.’ ‘But it’s legal where I come from. ‘No one arrests people for personal or medicinal use anymore.’
Heck, if Biden wants to complain, maybe he should make it legal with the feds.
“Thought” might be optimistic.
A Locked Up Abroad episode on Nat Geo would either be very interesting or agenda related.
My Mom absolutely was riveted by that movie and made all the grandkids watch it.
To this day, I’m still nervous crossing borders. Even from Alberta to Montana.
Me too….my commute in Lloydminster is stressful every day.
I see what you did there.
How about crossing the border into New York or the People Republic of California from neighboring states?
Or from California into Mexico, which I will no longer do! Haven’t gone for years and will never again and I am in San Diego.
For sure! When I drove my truck into Canada, I always watched my P’s and Q’s!!
But she should be allowed to do what she wants, with no consequences.
Hell- at this point with all the CVD hysteria, I’m afraid to travel to another state let alone another country.
I just said the same. Sorry didn’t see your post. Anyone else remember all the notices on TV in the seventies about if travel over seas don’t do drugs or have drugs in possession.
That…individual…got nine years for being stupid. Russia doesn’t like blacks. Russia doesn’t like Americans. Russia doesn’t like lesbians. Russia doesn’t like mouthy women. Russia doesn’t like people breaking their laws, particularly when they are foreigners.
She’s lucky she only got nine years. If Vyshinsky was still head prosecutor, she’d have gotten a bullet.
Couldn’t care less what Russia does to it (Griner). In a sane world she’d be a national disgrace. Kind of sad Russia doesn’t still do the hard labor deal in prisons. She’d probably be really good at making small rocks out of big rocks for 16 hours a day.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/us-school-teacher-jailed-with-brittney-griner/
Above is another US imprisoned in Russia.
CNN says the school teacher is sentenced to hard labor.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/marc-fogel-russia/index.html
I’m disgusted that certain people get to jump the line. I’m tired of all common sense and fairness being held hostage by that “community.”
Brittneys wife?
Made me laugh.
Maybe Russia will straighten her out?
Why would we want her back? Maybe she’ll learn something during her 9.5 years in a Russian prison. Not counting Russian of course.
The “rule of law” is dead. Long live the rule of law.
She broke another country’s law. She is not being wrongfully detained.
Absolutely true. She was arrested for a crime she actually committed, based on real evidence, and was sentenced after legal due process. It does seem a harsh but there’s nothing wrongful about it.
TRUTH
America use to be powerful enough to protect the traveling ignorant American.
you are missing an angle to this.
American use to be powerful, where it could demand anything it wanted, including bringing back basketball kids goofing off.
China for example.
If we did the same here to a few well deserving criminals, this country would turn around quickly.
There is a sign hanging from the ceiling in the arrivals area in Singapore. It reads, “Drug Smuggling Carries the Death Sentence.”
They have no problems with Drugs nor with Death.
The left defy USA laws, are never prosecuted, and think anything goes anywhere there go. No respect for any authority. He/she/it isn’t intelligent enough to be given a passport. I have no sympathy. In fact let’s deport more lins to Roosia.
How many Americans are sitting in American jails for possessing the same thing?
Agreed. At least it was medicinally legalized in OK. I have no problem with people smoking a plant as it isn’t any worse then fermented plants as far as I can tell, have personally experienced, or observed.
However, she messed with the bull and is surprised she got the horns? 🤣
Didn’t she plead guilty?
Hard to wrongfully detain someone who has confessed to the crime charged.
Rumpole, yes, she did plead guilty.
Really? I certainly don’t defend her actions however people plea bargain all the time.
Ask the J6 political prisoners.
Ruuuumpole !!!! 😁
Well, this American hating woman will hopefully have some time to come to love Russia! I, like so many others, truly hope Russia keeps her there for the entire 9 years. Just think of the anti American bullshit we won’t have to listen to in the news!
She refused to play in a game if the national anthem were played before it. Good riddance to an America hating bitch!
She may be a he but whatever it is Russia can keep it. If it was in Singapore she could of been executed.
Yes, not sure of the exact count for hemp oil, but in singapore those convicted of drug offences are sentenced to “lashes” with a deceptively small in diameter cane.
You will probably survive 10 lashes, but the sentences handed out to drug dealers, if 60-80 lashes are invariably a death sentence.
Also not sure how much they distinguish between USERS and Dealers.
Gets to PDJT’s recent riffs, on how countries with no drug problem kill drug dealers.
He mentioned Singapore, and China, and NOT the Phillipines,…
Have been surprised his comments haven’t been talked about, either in MSM or here.
Parcing what he said, I don’t think hecis talking about the guy on the streetcorner (“Psst, hey you wanna buy,…?”)
I think he is talking about naming cartels as terrorist organisations (they ARE, they have just restricted their terrorist activity to South of the Border, possible exception being the Las Vegas shooting).
He talked about swift trial, and immediate execution, and I don’t see that happening in the U.S. against small time drug retailers.
However, DRONE strikes against terrorist kingpins, even American citisens, and even when clear violation of other nations soveriegnity, have been done under Obama and PDJT.
So, a REAL war on drugs.
PDJT is actively thinking about his 2nd term, and if he is talking about it, he already has a plan.
Wonder if AMLO has been consulted?
depends on the size of possession…In Singapore a large enough seizure can get you DEATH as it can in a lot of the Orient
Not restricted to South of the Border!
Hahaha hAHAHA!
We have many airfields in remote areas . . . and now the nations first international airport is up for sale!
https://www.phoenixmag.com/2022/07/07/a-runway-ran-threw-it/
Sundance, the him/her comment is just wrong.
She should serve her time and the administration should not be distracted by her pleas.
If it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck it just may be a duck.
The irony is delicious. She hates the USA because it’s so unjust. She does something in Russia which wouldn’t have gotten any notice at all in the USA and gets the book thrown at her.
Think she still hates the USA?
Yes… but she can’t wait to get back here so she is FREE again to hate the USA.
She’ll hate the USA even worse now that we failed to save her from the consequences of her actions.
“My administration will continue to work tirelessly and pursue every possible avenue to bring Brittney and Paul Whelan home safely as soon as possible.”
We are at a year now. Afghanistan, are any Americans still trapped over there, or have they been found and slaughtered?
As if the mainstream media would ever tell us.
As far as I’m concerned, “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”
No matter where or who you are.
One day, the USA will return to law and order.
She broke the law, how is that being “wrongfully detained”?
Biden’s making no sense here.
Surely, WNBA informs players as to laws of the countries they are visiting.
At the very least, any person w/ half a brain knows to check drug laws of a country they’ll be visiting, JIC.
Fool made her own bed, now she gets to lie in it.
America use to be able to dictate to other countries no matter the reason.
we fund the whole damn world – until new players starting peeking their heads uo (China and Russia).
bring her home and punish her here.
we wouldnt want to leave behind any citizen – sets a bad precedent and encourages others to join BRIC.
She pleaded guilty and was caught with the goods. How is this “wrongfully detaining”? No one is buying Biden’s gaslighting.
Just like the punks who got caught stealing in China that should have been left to pay for their crimes instead of PDJT getting them released. This one should never be traded for a mass killer and if it were a white woman would they even consider this bargaining for her ?
Get her home, start selling natural gas to europe. and this shit ends.
If only that demented Turnip showed as much concern for those Americans he abandoned in Afghanistan.
And DC jail…
Let her rot
TFB Russia can keep it 🤷♀️
Covid Joe making statements…yea right, this guy has trouble walking up to any podium much less utter a coherent sentence.
I don’t care about this butch person who thinks her narcissism will trump reality. Putin is laughing his head off at the United States…and rightly so, in my opinion.
I am surprised the Biden family has not been offered a permanent residency in Sarasota at the Ringling property, they all have earned it in spades!
What a joke! DC has wrongfully imprisoned people who broke no law on Jan 6, simply exercised their right to make their voices and opinions heard and the criminal JoBama regime have not even given them a fair trial.
I’m sorry. You get on an airplane with any kind of illicit drug you deserve whatever happens to you. You get on an airplane to RUSSIA with an illicit drug? You deserve it x 10 just for being criminally STUPID.
9 tears is overly harsh and is only a bargaining chip for Putin knowing he is negotiating with a weak president.
That being said, she did plead guilty to the charges and probably deserves some jail time just as I would expect a foreigner to be incarcerated here in America for importing drugs.
drug user, not a dealer. prescription punk not a gang member.
you are absolutely correct on Putin using this as leverage to EMBARRASS America and recruit members to BRICs.
Greece may one day get under control of Brics.
Joe speak is worthless.
This is why Biden should be careful what he says about other leaders, such as calling Putin a war criminal and the Prince in Saudi Arabia a pariah. You never know when you might need a “favor” I am sure Putin has not forgotten.
“If you can’t do the time, then don’t do the crime.” Words to live by….
I’m shocked he didn’t issue a pardon for her.
Biden? Lol ye that’s entirely possible.
No political incentive won’t help poll numbers, The PARTY only moves when it helps them, commies do what the do. after 9 yrs in prison, do you think she will want a vape when she gets out?
So, which is it. Him or her?
“Wrongfully detaining” – what a joke.
This anti-American seems to have found a new home.
Every country has already warned Biden he has no moral authority.
all he can do is trader losers for trained killers or dealers in exchanges (the art of losing the deal)
I hate to see any American suffering abroad from frivolous charges. But if one is to suffer, let it be an America hater like Brittney Griner.
An arms dealer for a WNBAer.
Sounds like the same negotiators that traded terrorists for a deserter.
PDJT “freed” a record # of Americans detained overseas, during his first term.
I know he paid nothing, no $, and I’m pretty sure he did not swap any prisoners, either.
Imagine, Inauguration Day 2025, Putin releases Brittney Griner the very day that Trump resumes his rightful position as the leader of the free world, housed at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave…..how does Brittney Griner respond?
“Fck Trump”
I know this has been remarked on several times, but I’m compelled to ask again. Biden, you despicable failure, where is justice for the J6 political captives?
It’s unacceptable, and I call on Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife!! WTF america
Nyet, nyet!
“The Biden administration is attempting to work out a prisoner exchange where Griner and Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine detained in 2018 in Russia of espionage charges, would be released in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.”
Word is there is another Russian detained in Germany that they also what returned as part of a deal.
Hope there’s going to be a good popcorn harvest.
Hopefully the Biden admin can hold out for a couple of late round draft picks, also.
Hmmm….
But wait…Biden is holding hundreds of political prisoners who were merely trespassing….
What would we do if we didn’t have Democrat’s to keep the meaning of HYPOCRISY going strong??
Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney.
Did Brittney break Russian law? The Russians evidently actually enforce their laws on drugs.
I’m elated, not gonna lie. She’s been given a golden opportunity to leave our “fascist and oppressive” nation.
She should be celebrating.
She broke their law! Believe it or not, some countries do enforce their laws and even hold left wingers accountable for their actions. Difficult concept for some of us to understand.
Why is everybody so afraid to say “she” is a dude?
Yes,
the question before us is where’s his cli-tor-is?