Trump doesn’t like Griner/Whelan commerce with Russia

America’s loudest dingbat is a bull operating via the fragile china store that may be a tense prisoner trade with a rustic we’re engaged in a proxy conflict towards. Simply beautiful. Whereas Biden’s State Division is on the verge of bringing Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan residence, Donald Trump’s sixth sense for discord has begun tingling.

As Griner’s detainment heads in the direction of its homestretch, Trump determined now was time to marketing campaign towards the federal government doing the whole lot in its energy to free an American political prisoner. Over the weekend, Trump known as into The Troll Time “Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Present” to spew his model of hateful drivel and was requested about Griner.

By way of The Advocate:

“She went in there loaded up with medication right into a hostile territory the place they’re very vigilant about medication,” Trump stated of Griner, the middle for the Phoenix Mercury. “They don’t like medication. And he or she obtained caught. And now we’re purported to get her out — and he or she makes, you recognize, some huge cash, I suppose.”

“It actually doesn’t seem to be an excellent commerce, does it?” he continued. “[Bout is] an absolute — one of many worst on this planet, and he’s going to be given his freedom as a result of a doubtlessly spoiled particular person goes into Russia loaded up with medication.”

Trump taking Russia’s aspect towards the pursuits of People is nothing new. It’s simply occurring on a smaller scale now that he’s a personal citizen once more. Misrepresenting information is his origin story. For months, his sycophants have sworn that “if Trump had been President,” Griner could be residence by now. Not solely do we all know that’s false, however he comes throughout like a man who’d commerce her again if he grew to become president once more. After all, given Trump’s penchant for attacking Black athletes when he thinks it is going to rating him factors along with his base (see, e.g., Colin Kaepernick), none of this needs to be stunning.

It’s at all times instructive to listen to a con man who handed out pardons to his cronies, dealing with prices for fraud and serving time for various extreme offenses would all of the sudden take a tough stance on People dealing with a decade in jail for vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. However sure, Griner should endure. His hyperbole about Griner loading up on medication is the precise sort of braindead nonsense that’s been unfold by his base for months. He merely latches onto essentially the most poisonous views to cross his path and he takes them a step additional.

Presumably, he and the ilk needs to be towards Paul Whelan being exchanged for a felony who’s already dealing with parole after serving half his sentence. On the very least, his animus for People in Russian prisons ought to have some consistency. Whelan was also ignored by Trump throughout his presidency, so not a lot has modified in that regard. In Trump’s worldview, the common particular person isn’t even value understanding.

If there’s one factor Trump seems within the mirror and convinces he’s educated about, it’s dealmaking. That misguided confidence is why he launched 5,000 Taliban prisoners to start peace talks in Afghanistan. His blackmail in Ukraine didn’t work out so properly. He ripped up the Iranian nuclear treaty, which in flip compelled Iran to broaden the nuclear program, which Trump railed towards. Critics of Griner have at all times grossly misunderstood the purpose of a felony trade isn’t a quid-pro-quo or swapping equal criminals. Trump will not be a rational actor and it’s at all times finest to do the other of his suggestions.