Democrat Senator Shreds Griner Trade - 'Deeply Disturbing Decision'

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Got a big story, the story that the White House does not want you to know

about the Brittany Griner trade. We're going to hit that right now. But first, before we get started, as always and ever, please remember to like

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So please give us a look and come chat with us. So here's the thing with the Brittany Griner trade

It sets a really bad precedent, a really bad precedent for the United States

It hurts us in terms of Americans going abroad because now people

believe we're taking American hostage. Get a, get a dangerous criminal back, right

You don't negotiate with a terrorist regime, which in this case, Russia kind

of was acting like with, with Brittany Griner, and we gave up a very, very

dangerous man, so dangerous that a Democrat Senator, New Jersey Senator, Bob Menendez actually sounded the alarm

And he said, we must stop inviting rogue regimes to use Americans

overseas as bargaining chips. You know, and he talked about how people like Victor Bout, the so-called

merchant of death, you know, being free actually makes us less safe

And he said, this is really bad for hostage taking overseas because it sends that message

And this is a Democrat Senator, a staunch Biden supporter. And that's not all

Menendez actually called the decision by the white house to trade Victor Bout

for WNBA star, Brittany Griner, a deeply disturbing decision. Those are his words

He called it deeply disturbing. He said, what we have to do is try to get Americans to stop traveling to

countries that have regimes that are going to use them as bargaining chips

There was even defense official spokespeople who said, the world is a more dangerous place today with this guy on the loose

This is a guy who is selling serious weaponry to fund both sides of wars

in some cases, just to make money. And, you know, he's definitely going to, you know, and you know, he's

definitely a guy who sold weapons to our enemies and there's no reason to

believe he won't do that again. There's no reason to believe he's going to just go back to Russia and be, you

know, knitting and selling yarn in a, in a local shop, there's no reason to

believe that there's every reason to believe that he's going to go back to

being the criminal mastermind that he is. And the rabbit hole actually goes deeper than I can even get into here about

things that happen with people, with companies that are related to a boot

during the Iraq war and, and things of that nature that, you know, in, in terms

of, of what we can actually say here, we can't really talk about, but you're

going to, you're going to find out about it. And as soon as we're allowed to talk about it, we will, because it's important

Um, this is a very, very dangerous man. And you know, the white house originally NBC news said that the white house had a

choice between getting grinder back or Marine Paul Whelan. And they went with grinder

They corrected the story later to say they only had the choice of grinder, which

is the official white house line. What is the truth? We don't know

We don't know. Um, did they have a choice? Was it grinder or nothing

It might've been because they're very different cases. Whereas Whelan's charged with espionage, grinder was just charged

with simple marijuana possession. So there is a gigantic difference in the cases

But like I said, there's, there's a lot. They don't want you to know about this merchant of death

He's a very dangerous man. And we traded him for a basketball player. Not that I'm not happy

She's home. Cause I am, I think that, I think that she was too severely punished, which is

something, you know, some of you guys might disagree with, but for a little bit of marijuana, I think it was such a severe punishment

And even though she's certainly not on our side of the political aisle and doesn't

stand for the national anthem and you know, all these things that we dislike

about her at the end of the day, an American is being held for what I think

was a ridiculous reason to be overcharged for, and at the end of the day, you have

to think of it that way, in my opinion, but trading the merchant of death for her

That's a heck of a price to pay. Hey folks. Thank you for joining us here at explain America today

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