Biden’s One-for-One Griner Swap Stirs Unease and Elation
- Freeing arms dealer a “deeply disturbing” move, Menendez Says
- Other Democrats, allies praise Biden for getting Griner home
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Joe Biden’s move to exchange a notorious arms dealer for WNBA Star Brittney Griner, without a deal for former US Marine Paul Whelan, was celebrated by much of his party while opening the president to criticism the deal was lopsided and risks detentions of more Americans abroad.
Biden announced the deal Thursday, saying Griner was on a flight home after the US swapped Viktor Bout, the so-called “merchant of death,” whom Russia has been working for years to free.