is finally heading back home.
U.S. officials said Thursday they've struck a deal with the foreign country ... agreeing to a prisoner swap to free the WNBA star.-- aka the"Merchant of Death" -- in the swap. Griner has been detained in Russia since February -- after she was accused of bringing hashish oil in her luggage to a Moscow airport. In August, she was sentenced to nine years in prison. An appeal of that ruling was denied in October.
Last month, the 32-year-old had been moved to a prison in Mordovia ... where experts said she was facing homophobia, racism and 16-hour work days.
MecAbdul Hey
What a disgrace. Typical of our administration.
So what about the soldier.?
Fk'n Released A Grenade(USA) Should've Kept This Big Guy!!(Russia) Stringy but Can Reach The Top Shelf!!
So we have Russia a very dangerous terrorist in exchange for a bit very well know WNBA star? Damn America took a stinky L on this one. I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists.
Soo happy she’s finally home
Hope she has a little more respect for the USA now
I bet she won't do that again 🤣
Worst trade ever.. good job Biden
We better get a couple draft picks with that trade!
Held Her Captive So U.S Would Waiver.
The entire military should go on strike.
She was convicted of having hashish oil which is either smoked or vaped. Joe traded Bout 'The Merchant of Death,' and was charged with conspiring to kill Americans. He was the world's most notorious arms dealer who sold guns and weapons. We traded this guy for a basketball player
US officials have said they’ve struck a deal with North Korea and will send the entire trump famity back …no prisoner exchange was needed for this to happen…bye bye!
Shane on TMZ for not reporting this story correctly. The truth is that Putin said they that the U.S. had to take Britney or take no one. Paul Whelan was not the choice cause Putin said so. It had nothing to with was choose to go.
Wonder how this will change Brittney. For ☝️ will she stop 🛑 her vape-pen habit and ☝️☝️will she take a knee at the next national anthem? Welcome home, BG
Disgusting
This is ridiculous. She doesn’t even like or country.
Disgusting
What about the marine I think he's a little more important
Yeah ok stupid trade so back to ShanquellaRobinson
Why her tho why ain’t we fighting for Paul whelan he been there 3yrs
Boooooo
Who cares!!!!
BLACK LGBTWYXZ......WHAT A COMBINATION
Whatever she's home but trading are you effing kidding me. What ebbed happened we don't negotiate with terrorists
Biden did the same with the venezuelan drug dealers 'narcosobrinos', presidencial pardon, despite having an 18-year sentence
Total BS !
Shame on Biden!he choose a pothead that hates the USA than a Marine
What an absolute disgrace
What about the American marine in Russia this is disturbing
She’s not a hero, she’s traitor who doesn’t love and respect our country.
If she wasn't a black lesbian Avitar no one would care !!!!!!
This is disgusting.
Thank God! So happy for her!!! ❤️❤️ I was hoping it would happen. My russian husband it happen.
Save our soldiers first
Disgusting Swap!! 🤢🤮… The Arrogant American Fool! … gets to go home!! … What an INSULT to All Who Have Sacrificed Their Safety & Their Lives to Fight for Freedom & Justice!This Notorious Russian Terrorist who’s Responsible for Hundreds of War Crimes Against Humanity Is Free!
A shooter for a big with no draft picks ? US defs lost the trade, first round exit for sure
Fuck that … where is the other American? I hope she advocates for his release
Let’s hope the WNBA sticks to their guns and ban her for violating the leagues drug policy!
She BROKE international law and gets a ride home, while a Marine is still contained! Great job Biden...Maybe you should invite her to the WH and smoke some hash with her even though it's ILLEGAL in the US. Not to mention the fact it wasn't even POT, it was HASH!!!
Screw her she needs to stay where she’s at
Viktor Bout will be supplying terror cells and rogue nations with most likely American supplied or funded arms he picks up in Ukraine or Afghanistan just in time for Christmas.
She's not worth 2 drops of piss
An arms dealer for a pothead…Well played Russia! SMH
Booo. Bring back the marine not some gay basketball player who can’t obey Russian laws.
What about our Marine? Smh
And to make matters worse he let the Saudis broker the deal, which will only ingratiate the Russians to them. The world is laughing at us.
I’m so happy she’s FREE Finally
They can kiss the fattest part of my ass for making one of the worst deal in history...USA is now that kid down the block that everyone trades with because they know he's dumb
So embarrassing
I'm so glad she's coming home 🎄🎅🏾 (oh happy days)
And how about Paul Wealan Oh, Wrong color and in Russia for the service of his country.
Leave a marine there for a wnba player who was a result of her own choice. Beyond pathetic
Y U C K ...
You guys want America to be so happy about this, but only that community cares. What happen to all the ppl our laws destroyed. ALL THESE KIDS LIFES THESE LAWS DESTROYED. Ppl that grew up here from a tender age but got deported for a felony at 25 30 40+yrs ol.
What about USMC Paul Whelan?
Gross. No
It's a sad day to worry about her when people here get long sentence for pot
She dodged a bullet!! She better thank her lucky stars because she fucked up!!!
This administration is a joke. They trade a terrorist for an America-hating basketball player? And leave a soldier behind? Where are their priorities? Laughable to think they're actually proud of this. Absolutely despicable.
These article should read: 'One of the most disgraceful trades in American History: While American Marine Veteran sits in Russian prison, pot smoking female basketball player traded for return of top Russian arms dealer known as 'The Merchant of Death' to Russia.
Should have left his ass in Russia.
Scum
It’s all an illusion
Happy for you ☺️
Traded for the merchant of death? Seriously?
Bullshit. She hates America
Hope she leaves the drug alone. Brittney has had months without it and was able to self-regulate.
Blessed
So we traded someone no one knew for someone who is actually known? SMH worst trade of the year. One who can potentially make free throw and the other blows up shit. She finna come back and smoke again just like dude finna go back to blowing shit up again.
Thanks Brittany. Russia got their spy back. You saved a life for a life. Now that's washing hands.
Ya'll wasn't thinking about that Paul Whelan until now
Wtf
Who did we give up for her?
I hope she/it has nightmares the rest of her life about a frozen Russian labor camp! That will be Justice!
This is wrong
All this for a person that disrespects the US Flag and says she would be better off in another country....for an Arms dealer called the merchant of DEATH.. JUST BECAUSE SHES SOMEWHAT FAMOUS SMH
Great for Brittney but had the choice been for the marine to leave he would have refused until both were freed. He just lost any leverage.
Ridiculous, trading a arms dealer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans for a drug smuggler
So we really traded someone called the “Merchant of Death” for her? LOL. Fucking ridiculous. clusterfuck
Why was the marine who has been in Russia longer, still not released?
LGBQ up 1000 points🤣😂
Russia now owns the USA. We have a weak leader!
Russia wins these arms dealer for drugs pipe lolz
Glad she is out but what comes with all this now is hate and ridicule from people.
Wouldn't have happened if she was white
Trading a maniac who kills people for a moron who kneels for the national anthem and hates America leaving a patriot languishing in a Russian jail! Only a liberal mind can believe this is OK!
She should rot there
🙏🙏💜
unbelievable, what a mistake
Leave behind the marine who defends your country and you bring the person home who won’t stand for your anthem, but good for her and her and her family. Happy Festivus
Let’s review the trade. WNBA basketball star versus Russian arms dealer. Yeah we got the short end of the stick on that one.
The blood will be in her hands from here on out. But she won’t care.
Bring Paul Whelan back home! It just shows Biden doesn't care about Real Americans. so much for supporting our troops past or present!
She is Anti-American the swap was not even close. The Merchant of death killed Americans!
Same person protesting for the great country of America . Hope she learns her Lesson and not do it again
paulwhelan
Yeah they released an arms dealer to Russia while they're 'attacking' Ukraine. Oh & we are funding Ukraine's defense. Guess Murica ain't so bad after all now is it 🙄
Russia wins again!! They get their extremely dangerous arms dealer back and we get our druggie basketball player. Meanwhile, Paul Whelan is still imprisoned. Ya think she will now stand respectfully when our Nat'l Anthem is played? Probably not!
Could have been done that
I new this was all fake news, 9 years and no one protested so they made a 'prsioner swap'. Had anyone of us been in Russian jail we'd rot🙄
We got hosed 😂
Look, I am glad she was released, she should have never went through all that over cannabis oil. I can’t imagine the hardship and torture she went through. I just hope she appreciates America a little more today.
So will Biden pardon all the men and women who are serving sentences in the States? Laws are laws, I smoke weed too but you don’t see me traveling to another county with it. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
How bout you mention the dude we traded for that entitled woman. Traded cold blooded killer for this stupid woman
F’ing ridiculous! Aren’t there military prisoners that they could have traded for?
Wow Biden is the goat greatest president of our time! Thank you joe!!!
AMERICA DOES NOT AGREE WITH THIS DECISION!!! Go hard for a spoiled athlete and not a Marine? GTFOH
Weird that people with Ukraine flags in their bio are celebrating Russia getting a major arms dealer back today for literally nothing. 😷 🇺🇦 🤡 🌍
I think Biden was experiencing one of is dementia spells again. Who allowed him to sign off on this... Did anyone translate to him what he was doing?
Wonder how Otto Warmbier family feels about this.
And we left a Marine behind in a Russian jail. Man, there is something seriously wrong with the top-level people in this country, starting with Dopey Joe.
Went a joke Biden and the democrats are letting her I am him back in America after she disrespected us what a joe treason for the democrats and the celebrities pedofiles and you for supporting Jeffery Epstein TMZ what victims
he was a gun-runner for al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Biden traded Lebron James for Kendrick Perkins
She burned a J at the Kremlin in celebration
Jesus 🤦🏻♂️
That arms Dealer got life long tabs on him now. They probably already got a plan on killing him or capturing him again. The only thing that throws me off is why trade a arms dealer to Russia who's in a war and is only losing because they are running out of 'arms and munitions'🫤
This is ridiculous!!!! Dealing w/ Russia !!!!
The swap between Arms dealer “THE MERCHANT OF DEATH” and the junkie is done! That proves that the Biden admin is pro weapons and the 2nd amendment is ok… or Is just ok to sell them to 3rd World Countries guerrillas and drug lords that make blood baths of innocents? 🤔☠️
Hummm look deep at why SHE was released and not out marine….SMH
If I got busted in Russia they would make me do the time
An extremely sad day for America!
Identify politics. 🖕🏻La Queefa
Democrats: we need gun control!!!!! Also Democrats: we are freeing someone called the merchant of death who sells guns all around the world so we can get an America-hating sports ball athlete back!
Jesus freaking Christ. 🙄
Ridiculous
What a great Christmas Present for her Family, Friends and Fans.
So we let go of an arms dealer for a hashish user... 🙄
So... this means all American citizens who are imprisoned in American for-profit prisons by the American government for weed are all going to be released... right? What do you think joerogan ? What do you think elonmusk ? LegalizeMarijuana LegalizeIt BrittneyGriner
fuck what you heard Biden got it done glad see home with her family .... just in time for Christmas .......
Such BS! Do the damn cryme do tha damn thyme!
freepaulwhelan
Only out cuz she a blk lgbtq woman. Period
Most lopsided trade in the history. A convicted arms dealer for a world class athlete.
OMG! CANT WAIT TO NOT SEE HER ON LIBERAL CBS TALKING ABOUT HOW AWFUL RUSSIA WAS
She better appreciate her country now and Check your damn bags before you fly off some where
Thank you Biden
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