{"id":1783974,"date":"2022-12-22T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783974"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:06:00","slug":"brittney-griner-encourages-fans-to-send-letters-to-paul-whelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brittney-griner-encourages-fans-to-send-letters-to-paul-whelan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner Encourages Fans To Send Letters to Paul Whelan"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbrittney-griner-encourages-fans-to-send-letters-to-paul-whelan%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=1783974&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>It seems as though recently released WNBA player Brittney Griner is looking to pay it forward now that she\u2019s back stateside.<\/p>\n<p>Griner was brought home from Russia earlier this month after spending months in custody on drug charges. Of course, doing so meant that the Biden administration had to give up arms dealer Viktor \u201cThe Merchant of Death\u201d Bout.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Oh yeah, and they failed to show some backbone and get ex-Marine  as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Griner has already talked about how she plans to make it her mission to bring Whelan back home. To her credit, she is already using her elevated platform to draw attention to his case.<\/p>\n<p>Griner hopped on Instagram to give thanks to those who supported her while she was detained in Russia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Phoenix Mercury center said that the letters she received while in Russia helped her keep her spirits high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour letters were also bigger than uplifting me. They showed me the power of collective hands. Together, we can do hard things. I\u2019m proof of that. My family is whole and now, thanks to you, we are fortunate to get to spend the holidays together,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHowever, there remain too many families with loved ones wrongfully detained.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Whelan\" class=\"wp-image-469129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-561x374-1.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GettyImages-1220016963-265x177.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-531x354-1.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-364x243-1.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-728x486-1.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-608x406-1.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-758x506-1.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GettyImages-1220016963-72x48.jpg 72w, https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GettyImages-1220016963-144x96.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1220016963-600x400-1.jpg 600w\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption>Paul Whelan was arrested in 2018 and charged with espionage. He has been in Russian custody ever since. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV \/ AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-griner-asks-for-letters-to-free-whelan\">Griner Asks For Letters To Free Whelan<\/h2>\n<p>While Griner\u2019s 10-month stint in the Russian penal system doesn\u2019t sound like a walk in the park, tell that to Whelan who has been held on espionage charges for four years.<\/p>\n<p>Griner asked those who that she wants those who wrote her letters to bust out their stationary once again.<\/p>\n<p>This time to support Whelan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose families stood alongside you and all who supported the WeAreBG campaign to bring me home and it\u2019s our turn to support them. I hope you\u2019ll join me in writing to Paul Whelan and continuing to advocate for other Americans to be rescued and returned to their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griner\u2019s return to the states has been mixed. While the consensus is it\u2019s great to have brought a US citizen home, the cost to do it was immense. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Griner hasn\u2019t exactly received the ticker tape parade that some thought she would upon her return.<\/p>\n<p>A homecoming celebration in Waco, Texas \u2014 home of her alma mater Baylor University \u2014 .<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Follow on Twitter: <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as though recently released WNBA player Brittney Griner is looking to pay it forward now that she\u2019s back stateside. Griner was brought home from Russia earlier this month after spending months in custody on drug charges. Of course, doing so meant that the Biden administration had to give up arms dealer Viktor \u201cThe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783977,"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":[6962,5458,6887,6818,5823,6849,7031,5531,3819,9591,7835],"class_list":["post-1783974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-bongino","tag-brittney","tag-encourages","tag-fans","tag-griner","tag-letters","tag-paul","tag-report","tag-send","tag-whelan"],"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\/1783974","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=1783974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}