{"id":1767655,"date":"2022-12-08T11:32:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767655"},"modified":"2022-12-08T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:33:00","slug":"hell-nah-dallas-cowboy-has-strong-reaction-to-brittney-griner-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hell-nah-dallas-cowboy-has-strong-reaction-to-brittney-griner-swap\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hell Nah\u2019: Dallas Cowboy Has Strong Reaction To Brittney Griner Swap"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fhell-nah-dallas-cowboy-has-strong-reaction-to-brittney-griner-swap%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=1767655&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dallas-cowboys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> linebacker Micah Parsons reacted strongly online over the news of the release of WNBA star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-prison-in-swap-for-arms-dealer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittney Griner<\/a>, who was freed in a one-to-one prisoner swap in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, dubbed the \u201cMerchant of Death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parsons seemed to take particular issue with the Biden administration failing to secure the release of Paul Whelan, a retired U.S. Marine jailed in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that the U.S. government said are baseless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait nah!!\u201d the athlete posted. \u201cWe left a marine?!! Hell nah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wait nah!! We left a marine?!! Hell nah <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3AeQx8K9OZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/3AeQx8K9OZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicahhParsons11\/status\/1600839683407126530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griner was arrested in February at a Moscow airport after being caught with marijuana vaping materials and sentenced to nine years in prison in August.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/readers-pass\/read-only-v2?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/readers-pass\/read-only-v2?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA\u2019S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner,\u201d President Joe Biden tweeted early Thursday. \u201cShe is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home, after months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under intolerable circumstances. Brittney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and she should have been there all along. This is a day we\u2019ve worked toward for a long time. We never stopped pushing for her release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whelan was personally informed about Griner\u2019s release Thursday by a senior Biden administration official, according to Fox News reporter Nick Kalman.<\/p>\n<p>David Whelan, brother of the imprisoned Michigan man, said in a statement that he \u201ccan\u2019t fathom\u201d how his brother would feel upon hearing the news of Griner\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the possibility that there might be an exchange without Paul, our family is still devastated,\u201d David said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-prison-in-swap-for-arms-dealer\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported. \u201cI can\u2019t even fathom how Paul will feel when he learns. Paul has worked so hard to survive nearly 4 years of this injustice. His hopes had soared with the knowledge that the US government was taking concrete steps for once towards his release. He\u2019d been worrying about where he\u2019d live when he got back to the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Whelan family said the Biden administration made the \u201cright decision\u201d in securing Griner\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no greater success than for a wrongful detainee to be freed &#038; for them to go home,\u201d the statement said, Kalman reported Thursday morning. \u201cThe Biden Admin made the right decision to bring Ms. Griner home, &#038; to make the deal that was possible, rather than waiting for one that wasn\u2019t going to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW from the Whelan family: &#8220;There is no greater success than for a wrongful detainee to be freed &#038; for them to go home. The Biden Admin made the right decision to bring Ms. Griner home, &#038; to make the deal that was possible, rather than waiting for one that wasn&#8217;t going to..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Kalman (@NickKalmanFN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKalmanFN\/status\/1600847157216522240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration said Whelan\u2019s case is being treated \u201cdifferently\u201d by Russia \u201cfor totally illegitimate reasons,\u201d Kalman noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we have not yet succeeded in securing Paul\u2019s release we are not giving up,\u201d the administration added. \u201cWe will never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden says Russia is treating the Paul Whelan case \u201cdifferently \u2013 for totally illegitimate reasons.\u201d Adds \u201cWhile we have not yet succeeded in securing Paul\u2019s release we are not giving up. We will never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Kalman (@NickKalmanFN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKalmanFN\/status\/1600849174928293888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Greg Wilson contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-prison-in-swap-for-arms-dealer\">WNBA Star Brittney Griner Freed From Russian Prison In Swap For Arms\u00a0Dealer<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons reacted strongly online over the news of the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was freed in a one-to-one prisoner swap in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, dubbed the \u201cMerchant of Death.\u201d Parsons seemed to take particular issue with the Biden administration failing to secure the release &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1767658,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1767655","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}