{"id":1702088,"date":"2022-10-19T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702088"},"modified":"2022-10-19T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:18:29","slug":"ex-russian-ambassador-claims-biden-pushing-to-bring-brittney-griner-back-to-u-s-in-time-to-boost-dems-in-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-russian-ambassador-claims-biden-pushing-to-bring-brittney-griner-back-to-u-s-in-time-to-boost-dems-in-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Russian Ambassador Claims Biden Pushing to Bring Brittney Griner Back to U.S. in Time to Boost Dems in Midterm Elections"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fex-russian-ambassador-claims-biden-pushing-to-bring-brittney-griner-back-to-u-s-in-time-to-boost-dems-in-midterm-elections%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=1702088&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 class=\"subheading\">A former Russian ambassador to Washington D.C. is claiming that Joe Biden is desperately pushing the Russians to free jailed WNBA player Brittney Griner ASAP so that he has a \u201cwin\u201d to help Democrats in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Unfortunately for Griner, though, the Russians <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/18\/putins-aide-says-biden-wants-griner-freed-before-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">don\u2019t see<\/a> her problem as a priority, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this tense situation, the way I see it, [Biden] thinks first and foremost about the upcoming midterm elections, which is why he keeps bringing up the need to return the basketball player who was arrested for delivering drugs,\u201d said ex-envoy Yuri Ushakov on the state-run Rossiya-1 channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Griner \u201cis not the most important issue that concerns us,\u201d Ushakov added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (Evgenia Novozhenina\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ushakov was Russia\u2019s ambassador to D.C. from 1998 to 2008 and, since 2021, has been one of Vladimir Putin\u2019s foreign policy advisers.<\/p>\n<p>Griner, of course, was arrested, leaving Moscow as Russia began its move on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The basketball player was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/08\/04\/9-5-years-brittney-griners-russian-prison-sentence-sparks-fierce-reaction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted<\/a> of possession and trafficking of drugs on August 4 and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. But immediately after the sentencing, Russian authorities hinted that they would accept a prisoner exchange with the United States to release the Olympic gold medal winner.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/08\/05\/lets-make-a-deal-russia-offers-immediate-prisoner-swaps-for-brittney-griner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offered<\/a> convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who had been sentenced to 25 years in U.S. prison. In exchange for Griner and corporate security executive Paul Whelan, who had been imprisoned in Russia for alleged espionage that he denies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Viktor Bout sits inside a detention cell at Bangkok Supreme Court on July 28, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. A Thai court postponed the extradition hearing of Viktor Bout for a second time after his attorney failed to turn up on Monday for the hearing to extradite Bout to the U.S. to face terrorism charges in connection to alleged arms smuggling. (Chumsak Kanoknan\/ Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Griner was ultimately handed a 9-1\/2-year sentence that she has tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/lawyers-appeal-griners-russian-prison-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeal<\/a>, but so far, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a>, or Truth Social <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@WarnerToddHuston\">@WarnerToddHuston<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Russian ambassador to Washington D.C. is claiming that Joe Biden is desperately pushing the Russians to free jailed WNBA player Brittney Griner ASAP so that he has a \u201cwin\u201d to help Democrats in the midterm elections. Unfortunately for Griner, though, the Russians don\u2019t see her problem as a priority, according to the New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702088","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}