Liberal Washington Post columnist Max Boot slammed President Joe Biden's decision to swap Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for WNBA player Brittney Griner.
Former DEA Special Ops Director Derek Maltz joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss the release of Viktor Bout and what the trade means for foreign policy.claimed that President Joe Biden paid a"disturbingly high price" for getting WNBA player Brittney Griner out of Russian jail, having to trade a vicious international arms dealer to Russia for the basketball star.
, a notorious Russian arms dealer who was serving a 25-year prison sentence on charges of conspiring to sell weapons to kill Americans." He then tore into the trade of Bout specifically. He declared,"Now, Biden has chosen to pay a disturbingly high price for Griner’s freedom. It’s not entirely clear why Russian dictator Vladimir Putin wanted Bout back so badly, but he is closely linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU."
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