"If it was LeBron, he'd be home, right? It's a statement about the value of women. Phoenix Mercury head coach Vanessa Nygaard said recently that had Griner been LeBron James, things would be different. Secretary of State Antony Blinken kept in touch with Cherelle. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and U.S. * Was it when he assured Cherelle and Brittney’s family the White House would provide them with all possible assistance? * Was it when the president reassured Cherelle that he is working to secure Brittney’s release as soon as possible? * Was it when the president and his vice president, Kamala Harris, personally called and spoke with Cherelle Griner?
* Was it when the president directed his national security team to remain in regular contact with Griner's wife, Cherelle, and Brittney’s family? * Was it when President Biden made Griner’s case highest priority, directing the National Security Council to lead an interagency effort to bring her back home? Just exactly when did the United States betray Brittney Griner? Someone should have interrupted “The Shop: Uninterrupted” and asked this question: I was simply saying how she’s probably feeling emotionally along with so many other emotions, thoughts, etc inside that cage she’s been in for over 100+ days! Long story short #BringHerHome Just when did U.S. My comments on “The Shop” regarding Brittney Griner wasn’t knocking our beautiful country. The backlash online was so swift and fierce that James tweeted a clean-up quote soon after: “Now, how can she feel like America has her back? I would be feeling like, ‘Do I even want to go back to America?’ ” In a trailer promoting his YouTube show “The Shop: Uninterrupted” James suggested that Griner, approaching her fifth month in captivity, should feel betrayed by her own country. Think of how the Russians must have relished LeBron’s words on Tuesday. We know he took her hostage because state-controlled Russian media has suggested that America could get her back for a price - for a prisoner exchange.īut if putting Brittney Griner in a Russian jail cell is going to provoke a political crisis for an American president who now leads the global effort to arm and fund the Ukrainian resistance against Russian invasion, this may pay dividends beyond Putin’s wildest dreams. Vladimir Putin no doubt loves standing back and watching American citizens beat up their own president, after he, Putin – not Biden – took Brittney Griner hostage. It is popular and no-doubt effective for the social justice crowd to run their pressure campaigns to move the needle in American politics, but it is a fool’s errand to run it in sensitive hostage negotiations with a Russian tyrant.Įspecially with a Russian tyrant who spent 2020 trying to provoke racial tension in America before our national election.
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