{"id":1767992,"date":"2022-12-08T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767992"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:03:49","slug":"ex-kremlin-aide-putin-outplayed-biden-on-griner-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-kremlin-aide-putin-outplayed-biden-on-griner-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Kremlin Aide: Putin Outplayed Biden on Griner Release"},"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\">16<\/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-kremlin-aide-putin-outplayed-biden-on-griner-release%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=1767992&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday the prisoner swap that sent<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/08\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-freed-in-us-russia-prisoner-swap\/\"> Brittney Griner<\/a> back to the US in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout was a win for Moscow \u2014 and made America look weak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin outplayed Biden,\u201d Sergei Markov wrote in a scathing post <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/s\/logikamarkova\/4536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on his Telegram channel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got back our spy, it seems, and gave away a normal girl,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Markov praised Griner as an \u201cexcellent athlete\u201d but said she was less important to the US than Bout is to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Prisoner swaps with the West should be \u201call in our favor,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Griner, 32, was detained on Feb. 17 at Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo Airport after Russian authorities found vape canisters<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/05\/kamala-harris-labeled-hypocrite-over-brittney-griner-comments\/\">\u00a0with cannabis oil<\/a>\u00a0in her suitcase. She pleaded guilty to drug charges and was later sentenced to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/17\/brittney-griner-begins-serving-sentence-in-russian-penal-colony\/\">nine years of hard labor<\/a>\u00a0in a Russian prison camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-01-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-01-1.jpg\" alt=\"The head of Institute of Political Studies, Sergei Markov attends a press conference of Turkish Ambassador to Russia Umit Yardim (not seen) at MIA \" Russia Today \/><\/a><figcaption>Sergei Markov, pictured at a press conference in 2016, praised Russia\u2019s leader for the swap.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-07.jpg\" alt=\"Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is escorted by members of a special police unit after a hearing at a criminal court in Bangkok in 2010\" class=\"wp-image-24943424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-07.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-07.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-07.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was swapped for WNBA star Brittney Griner.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bout, meanwhile, is a notorious Russian arms dealer <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/article\/who-is-viktor-bout-merchant-of-death-us-swapped-for-brittney-griner\/\">nicknamed the \u201cMerchant of Death\u201d<\/a> who had been in US custody since 2008. He was\u00a0convicted in 2011 of conspiring to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of weapons for use against Americans by narco-terrorists and was in the middle of a 25-year federal prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The swap was brokered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/08\/brittney-griners-release-brokered-by-saudi-crown-prince-uae-prez\/\">Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman<\/a> along with the president of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-10.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden (R) speaks on the release of Olympian and WNBA player Brittney Griner from Russian custody, with Vice President Kamala Harris in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 08, 2022 in Washington, DC.\" class=\"wp-image-24943452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-10.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>President Joe Biden spoke about Griner\u2019s release at the White House on Thursday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-feat-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-feat-image.jpg\" alt=\"Russia&#039;s President Vladimir Putin (front) toasts with participants in a ceremony to present Gold Star medals to Heroes of Russia in St George&#039;s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. The event marks Heroes of the Fatherland Day celebrated on December 9\" class=\"wp-image-24943473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/putin-outplayed-biden-prisoner-swap-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Sergei Markov said the swap makes clear that \u201cPutin outplayed Biden.\u201d  <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Biden personally signed off on the swap, in which both prisoners were flown to Abu Dhabi via private jets before heading to their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrittney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and she should have been there all along,\u201d the president said Thursday. \u201cThis is a day we\u2019ve worked toward for a long time. We never stopped pushing for her release.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday the prisoner swap that sent Brittney Griner back to the US in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1767995,"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-1767992","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\/1767992","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=1767992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}