Brittany Griner (32) was held in Russian prison after a conviction for drug possession. Viktor Bout (55) was held in American prison after a conviction for illegal arms sales, supporting terrorists and money laundering. In a prisoner exchange that took place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at Abu Dhabi airport, WNBA player Brittany Griner and Russian dealer Viktor Bout walked past each other on the tarmac.
NOTE: Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) negotiated the deal. Yesterday, in federal court the U.S. dropped a lawsuit against MbS for the Khoshoggi killing. The case was dismissed. The timing is transparent.
The Biden administration gets a popular transvestite hero of the LGBTQ+ community, while Vladimir Putin gets a Russian born global arms dealer nicknamed “the merchant of death.” All things considered, the exchange priorities sound about right.
(Joe Biden) – “Moments ago, standing together with her wife, Cherelle, in the Oval Office, I spoke with Brittney Griner. She’s safe. She’s on a plane. She’s on her way home.
After months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under intolerable circumstances, Brittney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones, and she should have been there all along. This is a day we’ve worked toward for a long time. We never stopped pushing for her release.
It took painstaking and intense negotiations, and I want to thank all the hardworking public servants across my administration who worked tirelessly to secure her release.” (read more)
Video Below.
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(Reuters) – […] Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both traditional U.S. allies, are members of the OPEC+ oil producers alliance that includes Russia and have resisted Western pressure to help isolate Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
Their mediation reflects efforts to show their ties with Russia are of benefit to Washington, which had accused Gulf oil producers of siding with Russia when OPEC+ agreed in October to cut oil output targets over U.S. objections. (more)
“And then I told him he had to stand on the tarmac and hit a three-point shot to save his johnson”…
Can’t wait to see the hundreds of interviews.
Maybe even a Next Flex movie.
A star in the making.
Going to be painful!
And nauseating.
Her statue will be erected right alongside of druggie George Floyd. Then the “book deal” which she’ll write none of.
They did have choice.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221208161446/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/family-paul-whelan-american-imprisoned-russia-says-warned-brittney-gri-rcna60732
A senior U.S. official told NBC News that the U.S. government had sought to have both Griner and Whelan released as part of a swap with the Kremlin, which wanted the return of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who has served 11 years of a 25-year sentence in the U.S. But the official said Russia has treated Whelan differently because he is an accused spy, and that the Kremlin gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Whelan — or none
Trump would have gotten both… I can guarantee you that…
And Snowden
– if he wanted.
All he had to do was sign a piece of paper for Snowden or Assange… Couldn’t manage either.
It wasn’t an accident.
Both for nothing.
WHY???? THAT makes NO SENSE AT ALL.
Get the Good Guy home and leave the two donkey where they belong.
And much sooner
There is another version, that makes a lot more sense. Thuh Biden “admin” two choices are most obvious and that is what they did.
#ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
President Trump freed 3 students from China.
He didn’t trade a Russian arms dealer.
President Trump freed 3 Americans from North Korea.
He didn’t trade a Russian arms dealer.
President Trump freed Aya Hijazi & her husband from Egypt.
He didn’t trade a Russian arms dealer.
12:45 PM · Dec 8, 2022
Don’t forget. Trump brought home our Korean War dead. How many predecessors had that opportunity?
Remains of American troops were returned from North Korea pretty regularly in the 90’s and early 00’s. Obama didn’t do anything to help.
President Trump and Pompeo investigated the Paul Whelan case and decided not to intervene.
Well, Pompeo!
…………and Pompeo investigated the Paul Whelan case and decided not to
intervenedo anything that could potentially reveal his own covert activities.There. Fixed it for you.
Americans are going to revolt and it will be different than any other revolt ever seen on earth before. The world thinks American military is fierce waging war, wait till they see the American people wage war. Its a terrible prospect but the advisory of God must be defeated in America. We are a nation under God. That is the war we are in!
All the smiling faces of the demon’s will turn to fear knowing their time is over.
Hope you’re right – but hope isn’t a strategy. Our military needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
The hope I have is in God the father and Jesus Christ.
The word God has given us, there will be a lot of death and destruction. I think the false hope is that this can be avoided. No it cannot be avoid, because the time to confront the sins of this world is now. It all had to come to this.
The advisory and his minion will fight to their own destruction. Our fear gives us false hope. Those that believe The Christ died for our salvation, should know we already won, when he raised from the dead.
Loren: a thousand likes !!!!
The only way the American people revolt is if you take away their cell phones, sportsball, and junk food.
BWAHHHHAAA I nearly spit out my drink reading this comment. Thanks!
I sincerely believe that you are correct.
Back in the late 19th century wealthy industrialists and financiers promoted professional soccer in the U.K.
The idea was ( and it succeeded) to give the factory workers an interest that would ease the monotony of their dreary existence.
Today’s professional sports is that steroids.
Cheers!
Did you mean the adversary of God, as satan is the advisory of the Demoncrats.
Jordan Schachtel
@JordanSchachtel
Biden Admin appears to be lying about Griner trade. They had the option to choose Whelan and declined.
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Evidence indicates Biden Admin prioritized WNBA’s Griner over Marine Paul Whelan, despite claiming otherwise
https://dossier.substack.com/p/evidence-indicates-biden-admin-prioritized
Blatantly True.
NO Comment
The Merchant of Death for the Merchant of Dunk.
Makes sense.
Merchant of Dank..
What did we get for the release of Hadji Bagcho, The Taliban Heroin Kingpin?? Apparently it didn’t take a tree full of Russian owls to figure out Britt belonged in the Men’s Gulag.
PDJT would have gotten all three of the marine, the teacher and the it
for the arms dealer.
FJB sux at trading
WHY? The It was where it worked hard to get to. Why deprive it of it’s on choice?
You need to re-check what Viktor Bout was charged with and convicted of doing. He was caught by a DEA sting operation and the charges against him were conspiracy charges that he denied. There were no money laundering charges, no actual arms sales. But the US didn’t like him selling weapons to anyone that the US doesn’t like and has sanctioned. So, he was actually convicted of conspiracy to circumvent US and UN sanctions.
He was sentenced to 25 years by a Manhattan judge, District Judge Shira Scheindlin who said the minimum sentence was appropriate because there was no evidence that Bout would have committed the crimes for which he was convicted had it not been for the sting operation. “But for the approach made through this determined sting operation, there is no reason to believe Bout would ever have committed the charged crimes,” she said.
Also check the illegal extradition of Viktor Bout from Thailand.
And then I keep thinking about all the Military equipment, gear, ammunition that Biden left in Afghanistan.
All that equipment….guaranteed it wound up in the hands of arms dealers.
With all that was left in Afghanistan, and then combine with only 30% of military equipment that is sent Ukraine making it to the front lines…the rest being sold to arms dealers…
There is a LOT of unaccounted for military equipment floating around since Biden was Installed.
Then with this “leniency ” in the prisoner exchange….
Something is up…..
Russians have Oligarchs, who are bad elite people . We have Tech Wizards, who are good wealthy people.
Russians have Arms Dealers, who are bad industrialists. We have Military Contractors, who are good manufacturers.
Russians have Mercenaries, who are bad soldiers. We have Private Security Firms, who are good contractors.
Russians have State Sponsored Media, who are bad journalists. We have Authoritative Media Sources, who are trusted journalists.
…and when Putin wins 77% of the vote, Russian elections are rigged. When Biden receives the highest vote count in American history, asking questions about election security is seditious behavior.
Yes. Exactly.
“We have Authoritative Media Sources, who are trusted journalists.”
Would those be the same journalists who are always quoting anonymous officials or unnamed sources?
Would those be the same US trusted journalists that have the lowest levels of public trust in media among 46 countries?
Did you read the entire post?
The overwhelming majority of that equipment was sent to Afghanistan by Bush the Lesser and Obama the Pretender.
And it was left there. No matter who sent it. Biden left it.
No accountability.
A lot of unaccounted for arms and munitions floating around……
I keep thinking about the J6 protesters and how they are getting railroaded, so forgive me if I could care less about this guy’s 25 year sentence or his illegal extradition.
We have NO REASON–NONE– to believe our criminal Government of Occupation about these charges.
They repeatedly made up charges against Russians in the RussiaGate Hoax.
They have framed all the Jan. 6 Honest Election Dissidents.
They are trying to frame the Real President of the United States even as we speak.
That, after overthrowing him.
I won’t even go into their Greatest Hits catalog of Big Lies such as the Bio-Weapon Event or the State-Sponsored Riots.
They lie about EVERYTHING, ALL THE TIME. THEY LIE FOR BREAKFAST. THEY LIE BEFORE BREAKFAST. THEY LIE TO THEMSELVES. THEY LIE TO THEIR MOTHERS. THEY LIE TO GOD. THEY LIE WHENEVER THEY OPEN THEIR DIRTY MOUTHS.
ASSUME THAT WHATEVER THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT IS JUST ANOTHER PATHOLOGICAL LIE. YOU WILL BE RIGHT.
Here is the court case against Viktor Bout. I am sorry that I didn’t include a link to the case in what I summarized above.
https://www.internationalcrimesdatabase.org/Case/3243
CK hasn’t seen a Democrat deal this unbelievably gosh darn AWESOME since traitor 0’Bama traded for traitor Bowe Bergdahl!
Was she unjustly detained?
The Three ‘students’ were basketball players who STOLE expensive sunglasses from a store. IIRC They didn’t even thank President Trump.
No need to upset them. Maybe they aren’t watching. I hope they’re not.
I honestly don’t know why anyone is shocked over how this went down after what happened with the Obama/Biden handling of the Bowe Bergdahl fiasco which consisted of exchanging 5 hardcore Islamic terrorists for 1 mentally unstable “hippie” Army soldier who deserted his unit in the dead of night to go live with the Afghans. Why is anyone surprised that this administration would do something purposefully that completely embarrasses the country, puts lives at risk and weakens us in the eyes of those who wish us ill?
I think normal Americans are angry and disgusted. I’m not sure that they are either surprised or shocked. I sure am not.
The player identifies as a woman???
EOP – No Response to that. At least not much of one.
A Pedo and a carpet muncher…Garbage people….
I believe it is a hermaphrodite have you ever heard it talk a very low voice
No, it ain’t that.
I’ve known some of those. That ain’t it.
It’s 6ft 8 and has no breasts. That’s not a woman.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-biden-explains-why-he-swapped-russian-merchant-death-wnba-star
Lulu,
You are right about that!
The video includes “her” chatting with officials; not a girl.
What makes you think that the republican party leaders would be interested in doing that?
Obumbler traded 5 Taliban terrorists for 1 US Army deserter.
Creepy Groper Joe said, hold my beer. He traded 1 WNBA lesbian, stoner for 1 Russian arms dealer & left a retired US Marine in a Russian jail.
Who won in those “negotiations?” Not the 🇺🇸 .
MBS and the Saudi’s were badddd until January, 2021.
If you could use a pump of inspiration, to wake up renewed, to send all these the warmongering Republican’s and blood money Democrats to their just rewards……
I can recommend a movie – I found it on Tubi.
Lifted
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1492959/
This is so disgusting – it’s representative of what our country has become – shame on everyone who had a role in this
Putin: Hey Joe. I’ve got a hole in my lineup for the playoffs.
How about I trade you my Breece Hall for your Cam Akers?
FJB: sounds good
For those who aren’t into NFL:
Breece Hall is an absolute stud running back who suffered a knee injury
and is out rest of season.
Cam Akers is a middling running back, on a horrible offense,
who is still coming back from his own Achilles injury.
Hall is better than Akers, before injury.
And Halls prognosis is better than Akers.
One guy is playing, and you can watch Akers tonight, if you want.
The other gets the rest of the next year to rehab after surgery.
But the overall outlook is Breece Hall is better than Cam Akers.
FJB takes Cam Akers.
Ill take Breece Hall
I cannot think of one single civilized thing to politely say about THAT.
I believe my Great Grandmother was such a Gentle Soul, unbelievably gentle, but was DEAD WRONG about her lifelong contention that if you didn’t have something Nice to ay about something, you should NOT say anything at all.
Sounds nice, but even Jesus wasn’t able to do that!
And I KNOW that my great grandmother never even considered ay such topics as are common today, that might Ever need to be spoken of.
I must add, she was also known for that when she found my Great Grandfather’s beer or whiskey cooking in tow sacks hanging on the fence, she quietly and silently just took the broom to them and smashed them to Pieces.
At other times, if a 4 letter word slipped out of his mouth, such as the time he found his two best bulls fighting, and he clobbered one of them with a long board to break up the fight – accidently hit that expensive bull in the eye and blinded the bull in THAT eye, and let out a 4-letter word expletive – he wouldn’t hit the other bull, it was LONG LONG LONG TIME his favorite and he knew all his cattle by their first name – she would say, Now, Dennis, you know you shouldn’t ought to talk that way. What if the Good Lord heard you say that.
(Whenever he finally concluded he had too much livestock, he was call my uncle on the other side of the family to come truck them off to market, but after letting them go through the ring, he couldn’t stand it, they were family members in First Name Standing, he would tell my uncle to load them up and take them back home, he then paid all expenses for this trip, losing money because he couldn’t go through with parting with them.)
They were Fine people and I deeply admire and respect their sentiments.
However, My Great Granddaddy would be shooting, by now. And you would be shocked at who would be right by his side.
“something nice to “say”… “…. Beg pardon for Typos.
Once again, as if we NEEDED it, the Bidenista regime gives a clear “compare and contrast” comparison of how THEY “do things” in stark contrast to “the previous administration”.
IIRC, the Trump administration brought back 53 Americans held in foreign countries, and IIRC “gave” nothing in “return”. More than any previous admininstration.
Way to go, Joe! (major sarc).
Oh, and notice they say in the article since edited/censored, that they chose Griner cause “she’s a WOMAN.”
Aside from the obvious questions of IF, indeed “she” is a “woman” (depends on your definition of “is”) isn’t that a VERY sexist statement?
I thought “Women can do anything a man can do, and should be treated “EQUAL”?
So, shouldn’t “she” be able to stand time in a Russian gulag, for a crime she DID, in fact commit, just as well as a man?
Now she’s free to get back and run down the U.S.A. some more.
One person served his country, another herself, by taking illict drugs to a country for which it’s forbidden…Naturally, LGBTQ will always get served first for their self-serving ways.
“Intolerable conditions” In case you wondered, in the penal colony, Griner worked in the sewing shop.
I’ll take that Porsche!
O’bambam got played again!
Who just decided that Brittany Griner is a transexual?
Trolls with an axe to grind
Judging people they so not know
God is frowning
The confused work to confuse everyone else and you take umbrage at our confusion?
Really? It has no breasts, goes around shirtless all the time – without the normal nipples or areolas of a woman. Add to that, it is 6 ft 8 – what percent of women are 6 ft 8? It’s a man.
With a whopper of an Adam’s apple.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-biden-explains-why-he-swapped-russian-merchant-death-wnba-star
Watch the Russian Market video.
No doubt about it…”Dude’s a man, baby!”
It’s wrong to use soldiers in propaganda pieces.
Also, no self respecting person of principle would associate with that party.
“Friggan amateurs”
– William Seward
So we had the lefts enemy the Saudis, broker this deal. Also the Russians are negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran. What am I missing!!!
Saudi has been the mediator-middleman of the numerous prisoner swaps between Russia and Ukraine for the last few months. They probably have the procedure down pretty well by now.
I believe Iran and Russia are/have been establishing trade deals for quite a while. It was announced today they are ready to supply Russia with spare parts for vehicles, etc.
They also supplied Russia with drone technology awhile back that enabled Russia to enhance the technology and build their own factories.. I believe they may still be supplying drones also..
There is a lot of trade happening between the two countries.
That was a rhetorical question.
“…standing together with her wife…”.
That right there is what’s wrong with the American culture. We have been circling the drain for at least a decade.
Judgment Day is a coming.
Did the Bidinh Admin. Fly the Rainbow-BIPOC flag above the White House today? Above The American Flag.
Can you imagine how freaked out the Russians were with this lady? They must think we hide 10 foot dudes
I think I’d rather run into Bout in a dark alley over Griner.
Big Stupid Government, indeed.
Holy Cow!
Do Jenna and Barbara have a brother from another mother?
I am talking about that fellow escorting Viktor Bout about . . .
wait, maybe that is photoshopped and they slipped up . . . why does that George W. Bush lookalike have a DEA badge on his jacket . . . I thought Mr. Bout was in trouble for arms sales.
They crow about nabbing the arms dealer but they didn’t convict him of that, it was a DEA sting that the judge essentially admitted was entrapment and that no crime we could act on would otherwise have occurred.
He may be a bad guy, but I’m not so fond of our bad guys either.
Thank you for the explanation, Maquis –
that makes it even more ridiculous, that he got put into jail via a DEA sting when they tout his reputation as an arms dealer, the “Merchant of Death” . . .
I think I want to call the DEA the “Merchants of Dearth” . . .
that’s all you got, man?
(I do think that looks like a brother from another mother)
True to form, the OBiden Administration again makes the wrong decision.
Why exactly ?
Do you honestly think that the Republican party gives a shit about the soldier the transvestite, or us ?
Can you imagine Brandon being a GM for a sports team? The opposing GM’s would be waiting in line to trade with this idiot.
We need a miracle to turn this country around. There’re too many traitors in the Republican party to count on a formidable opposition to the Marxists.
Biden hates the military, much like the Clintons who banned uniforms from the White House while Bill was President.
Russia got back a KEY operative for their Special Operation in Ukraine. You cannot make this stuff up!
Sincere as a $5 funeral
Where are “Brittany”’s TITS?
He’s A TRANNY! And most people are too STUPID to see it! Just like BIG MIKE Obama!
You sure you wanna come back to this country Brittany?