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“We left a marine?!!”
Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons reacted strongly online over the news of the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was freed in a one-to-one prisoner swap in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, dubbed the “Merchant of Death.”
Parsons seemed to take particular issue with the Biden administration failing to secure the release of Paul Whelan, a retired U.S. Marine jailed in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that the U.S. government said are baseless.
“Wait nah!!” the athlete posted. “We left a marine?!! Hell nah.”
Wait nah!! We left a marine?!! Hell nah https://t.co/3AeQx8K9OZ
Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) December 8, 2022
Griner was arrested in February at a Moscow airport after being caught with marijuana vaping materials and sentenced to nine years in prison in August.
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“Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner,” President Joe Biden tweeted early Thursday. “She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home, after months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under intolerable circumstances.
