Hey, @Magiver, I looked through your posts to find criticism of Trump calling the Swedish Prime Minister to release a no-name rapper named ASAP Rocky (done so at the behest of KanYe and KimKe) and could not find anything.
However, I am sure this is due to my poor search capabilities and definitely not through any partisan leanings on your part. Would love the citation!
We’re talking about Iraq here, right? 
Have you researched this? She was serving an 18 month sentence and was due for release in early November of 2019. She was released in late October.
So she was released a couple of weeks early and it had nothing to to with Trump.
Nope - Putin will obviously be around much longer than 2023, which still leaves open the question as to how much longer would Griner’s sentence would’ve gotten grinded out, not to mention what guarantee there would have been of her release with a new despot in place.
Of course, and don’t recall stating otherwise. Chronology notwithstanding, we’ll take what we can get.
I had to look this up. If you’re referring to post 77 It’s a pay walled link. I don’t think anyone commented on it because they can’t read it.
I guess we’ll see. But that’s my reasoning and it’s based on a large loss of Russian soldiers with no end in sight, massive economic sanctions, a lock-down on public speech and whatever other harm that Putin has brought down on his people.
In the FWIW department, John Bolton stated that President Trump turned down a Whelan-for-Bout exchange in 2018.
Today, Mike Pompeo refused to confirm or deny that this happened.
It’s certainly true that Trump didn’t make that trade. The question is just whether he chose not to, or if he failed at it because he’s so incompetent at making deals.
Straight from the horse’s mouth.
“I turned down a deal with Russia for a one on one swap of the so-called Merchant of Death for Paul Whelan. I wouldn’t have made the deal for a hundred people in exchange for someone that has killed untold numbers of people with his arms deals,”
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Yeah. I’m sure it went down just like that.
It’s fine as long as you are a white, male, Republican.
Griner is certainly not 2 of these, and I suspect not the third either.
He’s telling you it might be a tad hypocritical to criticize Biden’s administration for getting a two time Olympic champion released from Russia when you never complained at the inane and unsuccessful attempts of Trump to get a third rate rapper released from Sweden (a country not exactly know for mistreating prisoners).
I agree with him.
Parroting republican talking points tends to look stupid.
Getting back to her normal routine is probably the best therapy for Brittany. I hope she doesn’t allow intense media scrutiny to mess up her head.
I hope the media will leave her alone and allow her the time and space she needs. I’m sure she’ll share what she wants to, when she’s ready.
Ms. Griner was generous and talkative (dialogue, not monologue) on the plane ride home. This speaks well of her, I think. US Special Envoy Roger Carstens recounts this (at 11 min 00 sec):