Just an ancillary side note to the U.S-Russia prisoner exchange.
According to an original article from NBC, the negotiations for the prisoner swap included an exchange for either LGBTQ+ hero Brittany Griner or U.S. former marine Paul Whelan.
The Russians would swap either U.S. citizen for the return of arms dealer Viktor Bout; however, the White House would have to decide which American they wanted in return. The White House decided there was greater benefit to getting LGBTQ+ hero Brittany Griner returned, and left Paul Whelan in a Russian prison.
[ NBC Report – Archived Version LINK ]
Obviously, this context of the NBC report makes the Biden administration look bad.
A political and ideological decision within the selection of the Biden administration preference. Realizing this, perhaps after contact from the White House, NBC stealth edited their story after publication in order to eliminate the political problem.
In the original version: “the Kremlin gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Whelan — or none.”
In the stealth revised version: “the Kremlin ultimately gave the White House the choice of either Griner or no one after different options were proposed.”
Even with the modified and carefully worded changes, it looks like Joe Biden chose the trans basketball player over the former U.S. marine, which, given the arc of history, does seem to make sense.
Biden is a twisted degenerate.
You forgot sociopath.
You forgot TRAITOR.
You forgot child molester.
You forgot POS.
I’m having a hard time choosing just one of these. Let’s just roll them all into a ball and kick it into a fire.
and you both forgot “he doesn’t love America, only other nations ruling him/us. “
Also an illegitimate installed usurper.
You’re all too kind.
via http://www.nypost.com
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump shot down Russian attempts to trade former Marine Paul Whelan for “Merchant of Death” arms dealer Viktor Bout, former national security adviser John Bolton said Thursday — as Trump ripped his successor for agreeing to send Bout home in exchange for the return of WNBA star Brittney Griner.
Bolton recalled in an interview with CBS that he was in the midst of his 17-month tenure at the White House when Whelan was detained on concocted espionage charges in December 2018.
“The possibility of a Bout-for-Whelan trade existed back then,” said Bolton, 74,
“and it wasn’t made, for very good reasons having to deal with Viktor Bout.”
Because you don’t trade away the world’s biggest terrorist for, at the time, a guy who they only arrested in order to get the terrorist back.
Common sense. John Bolton is probably Viktor’s handler and wants it to stay hidden.
Personally would have chosen differently. However, there is an argument that Whelen was intel and knew risks going in, whereas Griner is a young, albeit misguided, athlete that got mixed up in something way beyond what they may have imagined. Im not arguing kids should be shielded from consequences, just that if you were faced with a choice like this it’s not 100% obvious that brave marine should automatically be picked. It was a tough call someone had to make.
The entitled transvestite smuggled drugs into a country that tolerates drug smugglers as much as they do woke tranny’s.
Hopefully, the film on the flight home was the “midnight express”.
Just remember Bergdhal.(sp?) Where is he now? We needed him back also….didn’t we?
It was politics and money. Regime chose politics with tranny over a marine. Typical dem move, wrong move imo.
She is way over 30.
I’m 65 and don’t see that as “young”…smuggling drugs is smuggling drugs.
She felt entitled due to her celebrity status.
Russkies don’t follow WNBA…
You mean He… not she…
Looking at it’s face, it appears female-ish.
Looking at it’s body, it looks very male.
Perhaps it is one of those genetic unfortunates?
Sorry, she knew she was NOT allowed to carry drugs and she did it anyhow. Besides, why do we want someone back here who doesn’t even like America? She broke the laws both ways. Oh, I forgot she is LBGXYZ, black and a sport star. That makes all the difference…..we need her back\not!
He knew…
Is that why his depends are always full? 🤔
So instead of getting back a brave Marine who served his country with honor we got what? A tatted up pothead ingrate who has openly disparaged our country every chance she got. And now who knows how many more people will die at the hands of this evil arms dealing killer?
Paul Whelan not only got a raw deal, but who knows how many capable young potential recruits will now decide not to enlist because they will know that the jerks in DC have no loyalty for them. I can 1000 percent say what my choice would have been if it had been my call. It would have been to release Paul Whelan.
He… not she.
It is an athlete just like Cosmo Kramer is a karate champion.
And remember Mr. Whelan didn’t break any laws- the Russians accused him of being a spy.
Not that tough.
As pres Joe would say, “C’mon, man…”
You describe Griner in the most honorific terms while ignoring her kneeling for the Anthem of the country she disses – and at the same twhines to and grovels to rescue her, while you ignore the Marine’s oath of loyalty and out national military service committment for centuries: we don’t leave even one of our own fighting men behind if we can get him out.
We betrayed Whelan and our national honor in one move.
All Griner would have to have done is switch loyalties – probably not that hard for her, really, given her flaulent displays of distaste for America, and offer to play roundball and coach for Russia.
Marines especially, and all military divisions never would leave a soldier behind. Biden is a POS. Shows his IQ.
The thing is an adult, hates America and is a Commie.
Brittney Griner is no “kid.” She is 32 years old. (AND an America hater, AND beyond stupid to bring an illegal substance into a communist country.) Sorry, NO TEARS for Brittney!
Your brave, American hating transvestite knew BEFORE going in not to do this and what the consequences would be.
26 year Olds are NOT “kids”
32
It is older than 26
If you’re a patriot that was not a tough call
Griner isn’t a kid. Hasn’t been one for some years now.
Privileged, clueless, entitled imbecile yes, but certainly no “kid”.
It wasn’t a tough call, it was a calculated, unjust move, performed by an out of touch pandering scumbag.
Please, stop. Griner played basketball for many years in Russia. Griner knew the laws in Russia and made the choice. In 6 or 7 years going back to Russia – she didn’t know?
“Young, albeit misguided…..” Jeeze
She had been to that county multiple times and knew the laws. She plead guilty because she was.
There were about 1 million same-sex couple households in the United States in 2021 according to recently released Census Bureau data. The number of US households overall is around 132 million. So, that is less than 1% but you wouldn’t know it watching TV. In the fake world of television advertising it looks more like 25%.
Here the freaks are hyped and promoted at the Census Bureau.
How many mutilated pre teen trannies can a million same sex households produce by the next census?
Are they taking advantage of unclean voter rolls that still have registered to vote:
– people that have moved ( and registered elsewhere) but did not unregister from where they previously lived ( many times )
– people that died and never removed from voter roll
And other people use those registrations to miss vote ( pretending to be the absent voter via mail-in etc.)?
Greg Phillips says there is a lot of that going on by the nefarious – under cover.
Imho
Greg says that every person knows of people that have passed away -and as citizens each of can bring it to the attention to the voter registration department in your county.
I’ll look for the interview with grace.
Rumble:
https://rumble.com/v1zghnk-gracetime-tv-live-gregg-phillips-have-we-reached-the-precipice.html
We can watch and *itch all we want and it won’t change a thing, will it?
Millions- just look around. Heck, the school PV just exposed giving kids butt plugs , dildos, and telling them that spitting on them makes them easier to insert are standing behind the Dean in full support of this garbage.
How many of those same sex marriages last, in the realm of “til death us do part”?
Asking for a friend……..
Yeah, and many of them work in this fool’s “administration.”
And WHO determines their sex when they do not even know WHAT A WOMAN is?
Oh yeah, an aside, that the worst offenses of domestic abuse are from women against their women partners.
They know,
but fear political incorrectness
instead
of loving and trusting God.
And how many of these “couples” are roommates who have to pair off in order to afford the monthly rent? Trust nothing coming out of any federal bureaucracy.
In 2022, it’s now “cool” to date your best friend of the same sex and then instead of just being roommates, you get to fondle each other and get each other off. Cuz…you know, progress.
Lose the term “married!” They co-opted the word for homos and it’s a slap in God’s Face. STOP IT!!!
Jordan Schachtel
@JordanSchachtel
US-RU prisoner swap timeline:
-Whelan sentenced for espionage 6/2020.
-Russia offers Whelan for Viktor Bout 1 for 1.
-US says no.
-Griner drug sentence 8/22
-US offers Bout for Griner+Whelan.
-Russia says no. 1 for 1.
-Biden says yes. Griner for Bout
-Done deal. Whelan screwed
6:06 PM · Dec 8, 2022
What else did you expect when you heard what the deal was?
Jordan Schachtel
@JordanSchachtel
The Griner prisoner swap is a thousand times worse if you accept Russia’s contention that Whelan was indeed a spy.
Biden Admin prioritized a WNBA player over someone who was putting it all on the line for their country.
6:15 PM · Dec 8, 2022
Especially when you realize that woman doesn’t even like America, never will and surely would never fight for America.
Man, not woman…
Not that Pedo-Joe had the veteran vote, but this should cost whatever vers are democrat and Not LGBT
Pedo-Joe got the Military Vote because Obama put China in charge of counting them at Konnech.
“Mr. Chairman, I gave you Bagram Air Base, I let you pick my National Security team, I sent all our weapons to Ukraine, I emptied the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to you, I vaxxed all the troops–and now you want me to let you count their votes, too?”
“That’s right, Joe.”
“Okay. But only if you let me name an aircraft carrier after you, sir.”
“We’ll discuss it later, Joe.”
Rest in the Vine: True the Vote Fraud: Konnech the Dots
Missed an opportunity to toss that idiot over the railing
This decision, like every one of them coming from this joke of a White House, was most likely made by some staff-level, fruitcake-occupied office at the State Dept. Biden is a lost ball in tall weeds; he was busy having his Depends changed. I don’t mean to imply he wouldn’t have agreed with the decision, I just can’t believe he’s lucid enough to even put one foot in front of the other.
At least not without being told which one and when.
He went on TV and made a big flowery speech about it.
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
So, just to understand the equation here, we are sending the Ukraine over 100 BILLION dollars to fight Russia, and then sending the most notorious convicted arms dealer to Russia to fight Ukraine?
*******
Senior defense official concerned ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout may resume arms trafficking
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pentagon-merchant-death-viktor-bout-arms-trafficking-brittney-griner-exchange
“Senior defense official concerned ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout may resume arms trafficking”
Where do we get these geniuses? Geez, ya think, Mr. “Senior defense official?” Damn, these people are stupid…
Our government has piles of arms that need to be moved.
Who’s more qualified for the position than a convicted arms trafficker with ties to terrorist groups?
Those politician$ that obtain campaign fund$ from U.S. defense miss spending ( and skimming due to lack of auditing ) like the nefarious equation ( and $ay nothing – other than to support defense spending for uhhhh…national security
( that’s being weakened in many ways)
There is a remedy.
Bullsh*t.
OUR CORRUPT REGIME GANGSTERS ARE THE CRIMINAL ARMS DEALERS. LIARS.
DUHH! What else would an arms dealer do?
May resume arms trafficking? As the sun comes up in the east and it gets cold in Minnesota he will get back to work!
It must be fun being bring a miltary recruiter in these times and saying what your country can do for you….
“Makes the Biden administration look (like the idiots they are) bad.”
Thread winner! – Thank you, Mr. President!
Today I heard the Del Reeves song Girl on the Billboard. I was thinking it would now go.
Doo doo doo doo
Who is the girl wearing nothing but a smile and a swimsuit with a medal on the podium at NCAA swimming meet?…
….You’ll find tiny pieces of my heart scattered all over the street. Shattered by that guy wearing nothing but a smile and a swimsuit with a medal on the podium at the NC AA swimming meet.
DOO DOO DOO DOO
I wonder if she will take a knee.
If he…
He
has the NBC reporter been disappeared?
Greg Price
@greg_price11
There’s currently an American citizen named Marc Fogel imprisoned in Russia for having prescribed medical marijuana in his luggage. He received a harsher sentence than Brittney Griner in a maximum security prison. The State Department doesn’t even list him as wrongfully detained.
2/. If you’re an American citizen imprisoned overseas, you’ll only get an international arms dealer traded for your release if you’re a liberal celebrity who can give Joe Biden publicity.
Cont…
https://mobile.twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1600876451770744835
So what will the Griner Nike shoes look like?
Doggie Do Do
So, don’t get me wrong here. I think Americans are always glad to bring foreign prisoners home. It’s just that the President should have to explain choices made. You could prioritize one over another based on status, health conditions, longevity, etc. The President should be called not just to celebrate, but explain the choice when others are left behind. He should not lie and say it was the only choice, nor pretend he doesn’t know what negotiations are about. It also seems clear that America has no set protocol/policy on foreign prisoners exchanges.
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Greg Price
@greg_price11
There’s currently an American citizen named Marc Fogel imprisoned in Russia for having prescribed medical marijuana in his luggage. He received a harsher sentence than Brittney Griner in a maximum security prison. The State Department doesn’t even list him as wrongfully detained.
2/. If you’re an American citizen imprisoned overseas, you’ll only get an international arms dealer traded for your release if you’re a liberal celebrity who can give Joe Biden publicity.
Cont…
Sorry, can’t give you a vote up…..this is one person we don’t need back. She doesn’t even like us and doesn’t really want to be here. She is better off in their country….not here.
…he doesn’t…
As far as I’m concerned, they could have left that American hating commie in prison
Haven’t read this story yet but nice to see according to the headline at least:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/dallas-cowboys-star-rips-biden-over-brittney-griner-prisoner-swap-then-walks-it-all-back?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202022-12-08&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement
The guy is a rookie standout on defense. He condemned the Administration for leaving the veteran behind in the deal. He had to follow up with the old “I’m no fan of Donald Trump” line, just to appease the ESPN attack dogs.
Read the whole article and then make your statement that it was “nice”.
Joe Biden released a Russian arms dealer called “The Merchant of Death” after attending a “victims of gun violence” memorial.
In other words, the U.S. no longer has any power over its’ enemies.
If Joe was President in 1800 he would have bought Indochina for 10 million instead of the Mississippi basin.
While they want “gun reform” here.
Democrats…Continuing a negotiation style since Yalta.
“Leave no one behind”..HA!
No one is talking about Marc Fogel, another pot head (medical marijuana) busted in early 21.
Fogel worked as a history teacher for years at the Anglo-American School in Moscow, where his students included the children of U.S. diplomats, CNN reported.
He was arrested in August 2021 at a Moscow airport after entering the country with roughly 17 grams of cannabis that his family and lawyer said was prescribed by a doctor in the U.S. to treat chronic pain.
But a major difference for Fogel is that, unlike Griner and Whelan, he has not been designated by the U.S. State Department as wrongfully detained.
Funny, not one pundit mentioned this white guy tonite who is doing 14 yrs in a penal colony
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-is-marc-fogel-american-remains-detained-in-russia-as-griner-released/ar-AA1545Of
Griner checks all of the political boxes for LGB. Whelan checks none. The boxes are: Black, LGBTQ, WNBA “star,” and ‘female.’
I’ve often wondered just how much of the WNBA was lesbian, but I don’t believe any are trans.
Normally you would expect the US armed forces to be absolutely appalled at Biden’s choice. But since they are so overwhelmed with ‘diversity’ and other ‘woke’ ideologies, I suspect that Austin, etc., will applaud this. The destruction of the west continues.
This just further proves that straight, white, males are the only people who are permissible to discriminate against under woke ideology.
Even though it is curiously difficult to validate this with a simple online search, I agree with Sundance that Brittney Griner is a trans biological male pretending to be a lesbian woman.
Just looking at him, it’s obvious that he is a man. Brittney Griner is a straight man pretending to be a lesbian woman. I only use the pronouns he/his/him to refer to Griner since I only acknowledge a person’s biological sex.
I refuse to use the woke acronym LGBTQ+ as I refuse to let the left control my speech. I instead use the terms, gay, lesbian, homosexual, or transgender as appropriate.
Is this Whelan’s white privilege?
Why is the ‘trans’ thing not mentioned?
Because she’s NOT trans.
Your karma awaits Biden.
I’ve stated it once, and although this may be a highly unpopular opinion, I’ll happily state it again.
I hope this anti-American, lesbian, wench is shot to death in cold blood on American soil. That is the poetic justice that she deserves. Period. Liberals consistently spit in our face, and this time is no different. She should have been left to rot in that Russian prison, like the piece of shit she is.
I’m pretty sure everyone here knows that all these moves that the communist party is taking are designed to just enrage people. swapping for a queer instead of a hero – come on man.
I wonder what the over/under is for her/him/it to begin the slamming of white America, the taking of a knee during our National Anthem, the thanking of blm for bringing her/him/it home, and the thanking of Jesse, Al, Louis, the queen nancy, the squad as well, traveling with drugs to another foreign nation as well you know she/he/it is special and above the law.
The Russians got back a key operative for their Special Operation in Ukraine – that’s what happened thanks to the Biden WH. You just cannot make this stuff up. Putin has Biden by the balls.
Viktor Bout should not have been released, especially at this time with the war in Ukraine.
Whelan should have been chosen since he had been there longer, and it was a more serious crime.
Griner hates the US, and should have been left to serve her sentence, which she admitted guilt.
Whelan’s crime is claimed to be spying…..c’mon, more serious….they only did this because Vicktor was caught and wanted him back. Now, they got him back and still have they guy they claimed was a spy to get Viktor back. Win-win for Putin, again.
A choice between a mentally ill man who thinks he is a woman and a real American, well, we know who the demented white house picked.
WH Press secretary stated that Grainer was the only option offered for trade. Putin is laughing his butt off with trading a LGBQT+ for the notorious merchant of death. He exposes the west fixation on BLM along with all the other BS we see amping up the news. The whole world is laughing and the O’Biden admin doesn’t seem to be aware of the Russian Pun.
Look…nothing should surprise us now. This regime and its apparatus is a lying, deceiving, conniving, demonic, evil, corrupt, communist organization that pops us the middle finger very day daring us to do something about the atrocities that we are witnessing. The more we see…the more the pressure of this insanity creeps in. How much more will we take before talk becomes action. History proves there is only one way to eliminate tyranny, once that tyranny has been recognized. Do we see it’s face yet? The more we see it, the uglier it gets. All by design? Gradually breaking the will of the people to do anything as each day passes and more woke insanity consumes this country. They were hoping that prior indoctrination and their use of whatever they are spraying in the skies, putting in our food or as a matter of fact…shove into our bodies through these evil jabs….would keep us asleep, comfortably numb, or just dead! But the Great Awakening IS happening and they can not reclose the eyes of those who have seen….and are witnessing this. Unfortunately…if you haven’t realized yet, DC is being controlled by a hostile entity! It is hard to fathom in some minds, would have never thought this could occur in America; but we have been infiltrated by the enemy and the sooner we realize this…and incorporate that into our understanding…I believe the road ahead will become much clearer. We can not work “across the isle” with the enemy! That’s what they believe! That’s what they have been doing. Well…our enemy turns out to be on both sides of the so called party line…and when they sense we know that….they will scatter like the rats they are! They fear the people! Together! As ONE!
As part of Gwiner release…
It, he, she or they…whatever he, she, it or they go by…..should have to sing the National Anthem as soon as she exits the plane!
When the Junta starts murdering MAGA Americans simply because they are MAGA Americans – let’s make an educated guess and say that the “New Normal” will be widely accepted among the sheeple, despite the occasional sigh.
Perhaps the “vaccines” actually did contain Soma … (not joking here).
As though this faux regime needed one more thing to make them look badly? The entire enterprise is a train wreck!
Paul Whelan needs to play by the DemoNazi playbook and declare that he is renouncing his American citizenship because he hates America and is pregnant and transitioning into a black woman. Now that is a model American! Also, the Russians are preventing him from transitioning and won’t give him the necessary steriods and medication and sex reassignment surgery.
Once he does that, Peking Biden will fly out on Air Force One personally to pick him up.
You have to understand how their degenerate minds work.
Shades of Paul Pelosi reporting as well?
Intruder was known, Intruder was a friend, Paul answered the door, Paul went back into the house.
Then, like magic, that reporting disappeared.
Biden exchanged an international arms dealer for an international drug smuggler instead of a jailed Marine who was visiting Russia for a wedding. What does that tell us about Biden’s administration?
By releasing Bout, one has wonder how it will be before an American jetliner, full of passengers, is shot down by a terrorist using a MANPAD/Stinger missile? The man hates America and is a prolific arms dealer.
Bullsh!t!!! Democrats NEVER do anything to get members of the armed services released (unless they are harmful traitors to the US). Whelan can rot in prison like the 1/6 patriots. A soldier’s life means nothing to the radical Left.
Shouldn’t military leadership have been demanding Biden to release Whelan?
Yes, but our Military leaders are as Stupid as Biden & won’t cross the old Crow.
Our SO-CALLED Gov. Is bought & paid for by Dems & world olegarts.
I may have a different take on this than the conservative media. As far as I’m concerned there were no concessions worthy of bringing this person back to the USA. She/he/it is an America hater. And because of her/him/it a murdering psychopath has been released into this world.
From Babylon Bee:
“LOS ANGELES, CA – Freed WNBA player Brittney Griner has fled back to Russia after seeing an American flag for the first time in months. Griner spotted the flag near the tarmac of Los Angeles International Airport upon the arrival of her flight from Russia and had a negative reaction to the sight.
“AAHHHHH! The symbol of my oppression!” said Griner through tears. “When I see the American flag, I see slavery. I see Jim Crow. I see George Floyd. I see a country that does not care about black people, particularly not black members of the LGBTQ community.”
“Only 3 minutes here and my very existence is already threatened by this American flag!””
https://babylonbee.com/news/brittney-griner-flees-back-to-russia-in-terror-after-seeing-american-flag
You do know that this Babylon Bee article is a joke, right? I read it and it’s hysterical!
That being said, I agree with the first part of your comment. “As far as I’m concerned there were no concessions worthy of bringing this person back to the USA.”
Griner doesn’t like this country and she has said numerous times she doesn’t believe “The National Anthem” should be played prior to any sporting event.
She committed a crime in Russia and was doing the time.
We have a marine still locked up that Russia swears is a spy. I don’t believe he is. Trump tried to get him released but would not let Viktor Bout be a part of the trade deal. He refused to let the “Merchant of Death” go back to Russia because he knew how dangerous that would be.
This POS POTUS had a choice and he decided on the gay black woman. Of course, had he chosen Whelan, the left would have called him a racist.
Now we let an anti-American go back to Russia, and we brought an anti-American back to the U.S.A.