A Russian state TV presenter mocked President Biden’s prisoner swap of arms dealer Viktor Bout for weed-smuggler WNBA player Brittney Griner, claiming pot-smoking domestic abuser got sprung from behind bars before long-suffering US prisoner Paul Whelan because of identity politics.
Bout “was not exchanged for the heroic spy,” Margarita Simonyan said on her show Thursday, referring to Whelan, who in her view had “three problems.”
“The first problem is that he is white. His second problem is he is a man, his third problem is he is a heterosexual, that is something that cannot be forgiven today.”