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The Biden official who met WNBA player Brittney Griner on the plane after being released from a Russian prison claims she is a very “patriotic person.”
US Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens met Griner on the plane and described to CNN’s State of the Union host Dana Bash what the meeting and flight home was like after Griner finally escaped the Russian penal colony she was sentenced to, Fox News reported.
Carstens claimed that when Griner boarded the plane after being exchanged for a dangerous weapons merchant on the tarmac of a Russian airport, he told her that she could “have her space” during the flight if she wanted. Instead, Griner was ebullient and said she wanted to meet and talk to every person on the plane that had their hand in getting her home.
Carstens added, “And she moved right past me and went to every member on that crew, looked them in the eyes, shook their hands and asked about them, got their names. She was making a personal connection with them. It was really amazing.
Griner was convicted of importing illegal drugs into Russia in August, several months after she was arrested in a Moscow airport for having cannabis oil in a vaping cartridge in her luggage.
