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CNN’s Dana Bash offered her own intersectional take on why Russia had arrested WNBA player Brittney Griner, charging that it was due in part to her being a member of minority groups.
Griner was found guilty on drug smuggling and possession charges on Thursday and sentenced to nine years in prison after she had been charged with having cannabis vape cartridges in her luggage in February.
The Biden administration is reportedly attempting to obtain a release for Griner and also U.S. citizen and former Marine Paul Whelan, who was arrested on espionage charges, by trading them for Russian weapons trafficker Viktor Bout, was convicted on terrorism in 2011 after attempting to sell missiles to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in order to shoot down U.S. military helicopters.
Bash stated, “It certainly is beneficial politically in the mind of Vladimir Putin to show the world that they have a — an American sports figure who has won two gold medals, who has — is a seven-time All-Star, plays for the Phoenix Mercury behind bars in Russia.
