{"id":1540360,"date":"2022-07-05T18:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540360"},"modified":"2022-07-05T18:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:19:31","slug":"they-are-not-doing-anything-hoops-stars-wife-says-biden-has-not-responded-to-desperate-plea-from-russian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-are-not-doing-anything-hoops-stars-wife-says-biden-has-not-responded-to-desperate-plea-from-russian-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Are Not Doing Anything\u2019: Hoops Star\u2019s Wife Says Biden Has Not Responded To Desperate Plea From Russian Prison"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fthey-are-not-doing-anything-hoops-stars-wife-says-biden-has-not-responded-to-desperate-plea-from-russian-prison%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=1540360&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>The wife of jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner said Tuesday that President Joe Biden has not yet answered her desperate plea for help getting out of a Russian jail cell and back to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Cherelle Griner made an appearance Tuesday on \u201cCBS Mornings,\u201d where she discussed Griner\u2019s detention \u2013 the WNBA all-star and two time Olympic champion has been held in Russia since February on cannabis possession charges \u2014 and her attempts to get home or at least <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/brittney-griners-wife-begs-biden-to-get-wnba-star-freed-from-russia\/\">make contact<\/a> with family.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;They\u2019re not moving, they\u2019re not doing anything,&#8221; Cherelle Griner tells Gayle King the government is not helping to get Brittney Griner home \u2014 and she says Biden hasn&#8217;t answered her wife&#8217;s desperate plea for help. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z0CbCc2MTD\">pic.twitter.com\/Z0CbCc2MTD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1544433323182800899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBS anchor Gayle King opened the interview by reading an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/brittney-griner-begs-biden-in-letter-please-dont-forget-about-me-in-russia\/\">excerpt of the letter<\/a> Griner sent to the White House on July 4th, begging for help and revealing that she feared her situation could become permanent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs 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 Griner wrote to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat terrifies you when you hear her say that?\u201d King turned the question to Cherelle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt breaks my heart when I hear her say that because B.G. is probably the strongest person that I know, so she doesn\u2019t say words like that lightly,\u201d Cherelle replied. \u201cThat means she truly is terrified that she may never see us again. You know, I share those same sentiments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King went on to ask why Griner had written directly to the president \u2014 to which Cherelle said that multiple attempts to contact her family members had fallen apart and she believed Griner had ultimately decided to take matters into her own hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did she decide on the Fourth of July? I thought that was an interesting choice,\u201d King continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I would have to say, you know, it\u2019s probably because B.G., she cherishes the Fourth of July. Her dad was in the Vietnam War,\u201d Cherelle said, going on to note that she hadn\u2019t spoken to her wife in over four months \u2014 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/wnba-all-star-brittney-griners-detainment-in-russia-extended-ahead-of-trial\/\">one phone call<\/a> they finally got approved was a misfire when call went to an unmanned desk.<\/p>\n<p>King then asked whether the strategy \u2014 with regard to getting government assistance with Griner\u2019s case \u2014 had changed at all, and Cherelle said that it definitely had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo everything about this is a calculation for me because I have to walk the fine line of, you know, harm versus help when it comes to my wife right now. So as much as I want to, you know, advocate for her and push for our government to do everything, I also have to take into account she\u2019s in a position where she could be harmed also by any and everything I do,\u201d Cherelle explained. \u201cAnd so it\u2019s a thin line to walk, and initially I was told, you know, just \u2014 we\u2019re going to try to reserve \u2014 you know, we\u2019re going to try to handle this behind the scenes and let\u2019s not raise her value and stay quiet. You know, I did that, and, respectfully, we\u2019re over 140 days at this point. That does not work. And so I will not be quiet anymore. I will find that balance of, you know, harm versus help in pushing our government to do everything that\u2019s possible because being quiet, they are not moving, they are not doing anything. So my wife is struggling, and we have to help her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King concluded the interview with one final question about the letter and Griner\u2019s direct plea to President Biden, asking, \u201chave you heard from the White House since the letter was delivered to President Biden? In her letter she said the first time she voted was in 2020, and that vote was for President Biden. Have you heard from him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still have not heard from him. And, honestly, it\u2019s very disheartening,\u201d Cherelle replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner said Tuesday that President Joe Biden has not yet answered her desperate plea for help getting out of a Russian jail cell and back to the United States. Cherelle Griner made an appearance Tuesday on \u201cCBS Mornings,\u201d where she discussed Griner\u2019s detention \u2013 the WNBA all-star and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1540403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1540403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}