{"id":1538748,"date":"2022-07-04T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538748"},"modified":"2022-07-04T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:34:29","slug":"brittney-griner-begs-biden-in-letter-please-dont-forget-about-me-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brittney-griner-begs-biden-in-letter-please-dont-forget-about-me-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner Begs Biden In Letter: \u2018Please Don\u2019t Forget About Me\u2019 In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrittney-griner-begs-biden-in-letter-please-dont-forget-about-me-in-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538748&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Leftist female basketball player Brittney Griner begged Democrat President Joe Biden Monday afternoon in a handwritten letter to help free her from Russia after she was taken into custody earlier this year for allegedly having drugs on her as she entered the country.<\/p>\n<p>Griner\u2019s arrest in Russia comes after Western nations have supplied weapons and training to Ukraine to fight back against Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of the country. Russia has also been hit with hard sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The handwritten letter from Griner\u00a0to Biden contained the following excerpts (the rest of the letter remained private):<\/p>\n<p>\u201d \u2026 as I sit here in a Russian prison, alone with my thoughts and without the protection of my wife, family, friends, Olympic jersey, or any accomplishments, I\u2019m terrified I might be here forever.\u201d\u201cOn the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam War Veteran. It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.\u201d\u201cI realize you are dealing with so much, but please don\u2019t forget about me and the other American Detainees. Please do all you can to bring us home. I voted for the first time in 2020 and I voted for you. I believe in you. I still have so much good to do with my freedom that you can help restore. I miss my wife! I miss my family! I miss my teammates! It kills me to know they are suffering so much right now. I am grateful for whatever you can do at this moment to get me home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griner previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsports.com\/2020\/7\/29\/21346824\/brittney-griner-national-anthem-breonna-taylor-police-brutality-protest-wnba\">advocated<\/a> for not having the U.S. National Anthem played during WBNA games and refused to be on the court while it was played.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department has claimed that Griner was \u201cwrongfully detained\u201d back in February when she was allegedly caught \u201ccarrying vape cartridges with hashish oil in her luggage at an airport near Moscow as she returned to Russia to resume playing for UMMC Yekaterinburg, a professional women\u2019s basketball team,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/03\/sports\/basketball\/brittney-griner-detained-wnba.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cIn other cases of wrongful detention, the United States had insisted that it would not link the fate of imprisoned individuals to larger policy issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brittney Griner\u2019s wife, Cherelle Griner, told the Associated Press last month that Brittney had tried to call her 11 times over several hours on their anniversary using a number that U.S. officials gave to her that \u201cwould then patch the call through to Cherelle Griner in Phoenix,\u201d the AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-entertainment-sports-only-on-ap-brittney-griner-eab2338c18eab0fe600507eb6eb68093\">reported<\/a>. \u201cBut each time, the call went unanswered because the desk at the embassy where the phone rang was apparently unstaffed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was distraught. I was hurt. I was done, fed up,\u201d Cherelle Griner told the AP. \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I texted BG\u2019s agent and was like: \u2018I don\u2019t want to talk to anybody. It\u2019s going to take me a minute to get my emotions together, and just tell everybody I\u2019m unavailable right now.\u2019 Because it just knocked me out. I wasn\u2019t well, I\u2019m still not well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest news about Griner comes after reports from late last week revealed that former President Donald Trump advocated hard for rapper A$AP Rocky when he was arrested in Sweden in 2019 and reportedly threatened a trade war over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter [Swedish Minister of Justice] Morgan Johansson said the 45th president warned \u2018trade restrictions\u2019 would be slapped on the country if Rocky \u2014 whose real name is Rakim Mayers \u2014 was not released,\u201d the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/01\/trump-threatened-trade-war-with-sweden-over-aap-rocky-arrest\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cRocky was arrested in July 2019 and held in jail for a month after being involved in a fight prior to a scheduled appearance at a Stockholm music festival.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist female basketball player Brittney Griner begged Democrat President Joe Biden Monday afternoon in a handwritten letter to help free her from Russia after she was taken into custody earlier this year for allegedly having drugs on her as she entered the country. 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