{"id":1767967,"date":"2022-12-08T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767967"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:48:39","slug":"i-should-have-been-more-educated-dallas-cowboy-walks-back-biden-slam-over-griner-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-should-have-been-more-educated-dallas-cowboy-walks-back-biden-slam-over-griner-case\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Should Have Been More Educated\u2019: Dallas Cowboy Walks Back Biden Slam Over Griner Case"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fi-should-have-been-more-educated-dallas-cowboy-walks-back-biden-slam-over-griner-case%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=1767967&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>Dallas Cowboy Micah Parsons quickly reversed course, apologizing after slamming President Joe Biden in the wake of the prisoner swap that secured WNBA star <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-freed-from-russian-prison-in-swap-for-arms-dealer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittney Griner\u2019s release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons, upon learning that Russia was trading Griner for international arms dealer Viktor \u201cMerchant of Death\u201d Bout \u2014 and that Marine veteran Paul Whelan was being left behind in a Russian prison \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/hell-nah-dallas-cowboy-has-strong-reaction-to-brittney-griner-swap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lashed out<\/a> at the Biden administration for failing to secure Whelan\u2019s release as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait nah!! We left a marine?!! Hell nah,\u201d Parsons tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>But a short time later, apparently upon learning more about the context of the prisoner exchange, Parsons tweeted his apology and said that he should not have allowed his emotions to get the best of him.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">then the best outcome was accomplished. I pray Mr. Whelan comes home but am extremely happy for Brittney and her family. I am not too prideful to admit when I\u2019ve made a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicahhParsons11\/status\/1600870691326554112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust spoke to some people that I respect and trust. I should have been more educated on the topic and not tweeted out of emotion for my family and other (sic) who have served. For that I apologize,\u201d Parsons began, adding that he had also learned more about the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to bring Whelan home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso if what I\u2019m told about the attempts to bring Ret Marine Paul Whelan home are true, then the best outcome was accomplished,\u201d he added. \u201cI pray Mr. Whelan comes home but am extremely happy for Brittney and her family. I am not too prideful to admit when I\u2019ve made a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whelan also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/just-in-paul-whelan-says-hes-greatly-disappointed-brittney-griner-prisoner-swap-didnt-secure-his-release-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke to CNN<\/a> \u2014 from the Russian prison where he is serving a 16-year sentence for espionage \u2014 about the exchange. He told the outlet\u2019s Jennifer Hansler that he was \u201cgreatly disappointed\u201d that the final deal had not included him.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine veteran, who has always maintained his innocence, told CNN that in the weeks leading up to Thursday\u2019s announcement, he had actually begun to believe there was hope that his release would be part of the arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Whelan\u2019s brother, David, also released a statement on the exchange, noting that the family had at least been warned ahead of Thursday\u2019s announcement that Paul would not be a part of the deal \u2014 and said that while they were certainly happy to see one wrongfully imprisoned American go free, they were still devastated that he was left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Cowboy Micah Parsons quickly reversed course, apologizing after slamming President Joe Biden in the wake of the prisoner swap that secured WNBA star Brittney Griner\u2019s release. Parsons, upon learning that Russia was trading Griner for international arms dealer Viktor \u201cMerchant of Death\u201d Bout \u2014 and that Marine veteran Paul Whelan was being left behind &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1767970,"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-1767967","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\/1767967","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=1767967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}