Republican lawmakers on Thursday criticized President Biden for a deal that returned weed-smuggler WNBA player Brittney Griner from a Russian prison camp but failed to free Paul Whelan, a U.S. Marine veteran who has been jailed in Russia since 2018 on spying charges that the U.S. government has said are baseless.
If @POTUS is going to release a guy convicted of providing aid to a terrorist organization & conspiring to kill American citizens, he should have at least gotten BOTH Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan in return.
A U.S. Marine is left behind in another bad deal made by Biden.
— Office of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (@RepMalliotakis) December 8, 2022
The Biden regime literally swapped Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout (the Merchant of Death) in Russia. Can’t make this stuff up 🤦🏻♂️ Biden just gave Putin exactly what he wanted 🤡
— Rep.-elect John Block (@RepBlock) December 8, 2022



