{"id":1768389,"date":"2022-12-08T19:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768389"},"modified":"2022-12-08T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:48:14","slug":"video-emerges-of-brittney-griner-being-swapped-for-russian-terrorist-critics-instantly-notice-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-emerges-of-brittney-griner-being-swapped-for-russian-terrorist-critics-instantly-notice-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Emerges Of Brittney Griner Being Swapped For Russian Terrorist; Critics Instantly Notice Problem"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fvideo-emerges-of-brittney-griner-being-swapped-for-russian-terrorist-critics-instantly-notice-problem%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=1768389&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>Video emerged Thursday afternoon of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/brittney-griner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittney Griner<\/a> being swapped on a runway for convicted Russian terrorist Viktor Bout after Democrat President Joe Biden agreed to the trade.<\/p>\n<p>The video showed Griner, who is wearing a red jacket, walking across the tarmac with three men while Bout walked toward her with a man standing next to him.<\/p>\n<p>Bout shook the hands of a couple of people in the video before an obvious cut appeared in the film. The footage then resumes just moments later showing Griner walking away from Bout.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russian news agency TASS publishes footage of the Brittney Griner\/Viktor Bout exchange. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QmOItTEQ3O\">pic.twitter.com\/QmOItTEQ3O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1600969053396688896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics online instantly noted the cut and that it appeared as though Griner was posturing herself to shake Bout\u2019s hand right when the footage was cut.<\/p>\n<p>Bout was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-offers-to-release-notorious-russian-terrorist-in-exchange-for-brittney-griner-report-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted<\/a> on terrorism charges back in 2011 for trying to sell tens of millions of dollars worth of missiles to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the purpose of shooting down U.S. Military helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a jump cut here at :13 as everyone is shaking hands and hugging and right before it looks like Griner maybe going in to shake hands with Bout?\u201d political commentator Stephen L. Miller tweeted. \u201cProbably not great optics there to have your star prisoner swap shaking hands with the most notorious arms dealer on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#8217;s a jump cut here at :13 as everyone is shaking hands and hugging and right before it looks like Griner maybe going in to shake hands with Bout? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UGNPPbG37w\">https:\/\/t.co\/UGNPPbG37w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1600969324117696514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newsmax host Rob Schmitt agreed, writing: \u201cYou can tell Griner went in for a handshake with Viktor Bout and it was completely edited out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatch her body language just before the edit,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can tell Griner went in for a handshake with Viktor Bout and it was completely edited out. Watch her body language just before the edit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pNHar7lEjA\">https:\/\/t.co\/pNHar7lEjA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rob Schmitt (@SchmittNYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SchmittNYC\/status\/1600950625948213248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prisoner swap generated widespread backlash, including among Democrats, who noted that Bout was a very dangerous man and that by agreeing to the swap, President Joe Biden was effectively incentivizing rogue regimes to detain Americans overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-democrat-senator-blasts-biden-over-releasing-terrorist-for-griner-deeply-disturbing-decision\">saying<\/a>, \u201cThis should be a moment of deep reflection for the United States government to recognize we have a serious problem with hostage-taking of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russians and other regimes that take American citizens hostage cannot pretend that there is equivalence between the Brittney Griners of the world and people like Viktor Bout, the so-called \u2018Merchant of Death,\u2019\u201d Menendez continued. \u201cNothing could be further from the truth, and we cannot ignore that releasing Bout back into the world is a deeply disturbing decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stop inviting dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans overseas as bargaining chips, and we must try to do better at encouraging American citizens against traveling to places like Russia where they are primary targets for this type of unlawful detention,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video emerged Thursday afternoon of Brittney Griner being swapped on a runway for convicted Russian terrorist Viktor Bout after Democrat President Joe Biden agreed to the trade. 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