Former President Donald Trump lashed out Sunday at American WNBA star Brittney Griner as “spoiled,” and indicated he wouldn’t make any offers to get her out of jail in Russia as a result of she “makes some huge cash.”
Griner was arrested in Moscow in February as she entered the nation for a match when officers found vape cartridges with hashish oil in her baggage.
Trump claimed on the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Present that Griner entered Russia “loaded up with medicine.”
In actual fact she had .7 grams (.024 ounces) of hashish oil, which is authorized in her dwelling state of Arizona and in lots of different states in America. Russian media, which reported the quantity, stated officers thought of it “important.”
Griner, who stated she had a physician’s word for the hashish oil, defined in a Russian court docket when she pleaded responsible early this month that she had forgotten that it was in her bag and introduced it into the nation inadvertently.
The athlete was arrested as Russian officers had been railing towards Western sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine. Griner faces as much as 10 years in jail if convicted of transporting medicine.
Trump criticized studies that the U.S. is contemplating buying and selling infamous Russian arms vendor Viktor Bout, being held in an American jail, to safe the discharge of Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who's serving a 16-year sentence in Russia on what U.S. officers name baseless espionage costs.
Griner “knew you don’t go in there loaded up with medicine, and he or she admitted it,” Trump stated.
“I assume she admitted it with out an excessive amount of power as a result of it's what it's, and it actually doesn’t appear to be an excellent commerce, does it?” he added. Bout is “completely one of many worst on the earth, and he’s gonna be given his freedom as a result of a probably spoiled particular person goes into Russia loaded up with medicine.”
Griner “went in there loaded up with medicine right into a hostile territory the place they’re very vigilant about medicine,” Trump complained. “They don’t like medicine. And she or he bought caught.”
He added: “Now we’re imagined to get her out — and he or she makes, , some huge cash. We’re imagined to get her out for an absolute killer and one of many greatest arms sellers on the earth. Killed many People. Killed many individuals, and he’s going to get a free card,” Trump added.
Critics accused Trump of singling out Griner for criticism as a result of she’s Black, homosexual and a girl.
He additionally has a protracted historical past of standing up for Russia, even towards American pursuits, and often touts his nice friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. When Putin launched the invasion into Ukraine earlier this yr, the former president known as it “genius.”
Trump brazenly requested for Russia’s assist in 2016 to hack into rival Hillary Clinton’s emails, after which used materials stolen by Russian spies to assault Clinton within the closing stretch of the election.
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