she went in there loaded up with drugs into a hostile territory where they're
very vigilant about drugs, they don't like drugs and she got caught.
And now we're supposed to get her out and she makes a you know,
a lot of money I guess that was former President donald trump,
weighing in on Brittney Griner who is A WNBA.
Star who has been arrested and in custody in Russia and
we're trying to get her back here in the United States.
We're trying to bring her back home and
it's not surprising that Donald trump seems to be siding with the Russians here.
But in doing so he completely lied and deceive people into thinking
what she did was far worse than what's actually going on here.
So I want to debunk and dispel some of the garbage that you heard
him say it was his appearance by the way on the clay Travis and
buck Sexton podcast where he made those state and
he bitched in that snippet that she's making a lot of money, right?
And he doesn't really know much about anything.
But as you guys can probably imagine the WNBA doesn't bring in the same
kind of money the NBA does.
And so as a result the players in the WNBA don't make as much in their salaries for
instance, the WNBA's maximum I'm sorry, minimum and
maximum salaries are 60,471 and $228,094 respectively.
So again the maximum salary you can make as a WNBA player is $228,094.
Those numbers are far below the NBA.
And what it offers, which pays by the way Or plays 82 games compared to the WNBA's.
36 has a minimum salary of $925,000.
And a maximum salary starting at more than $28 million.
And of course they make more money through sponsorships and brand deals and
things like that.
Now grinders salary base was just under the max around $220,000 by the way.
Who cares?
Like I'm getting into the details because obviously I want to make
sure people are informed.
But in the grand scheme of things who cares She is
an american who is imprisoned in Russia and
we should get her back end of story.
That's it.
There's no there's nothing else to this conversation.
Now trump also says that she was loaded up with drugs.
Which is hilarious.
I definitely have more drugs in my house right now than Greiner had on her.
You know in her bag.
When she got caught she had some cannabis oil.
In fact she had 0.7 g or 0.24 ounces of cannabis oil
which is legal in her home state of Arizona and
in many other states in America Russian media which reported the amount,
said officials considered it significant.
Yeah well I mean the country is led by an insane person who invades
countries out of nowhere, like that's who Vladimir Putin is like I but
Jessica before we get to more of donald trump's nonsense thoughts.
Yeah.
You know, trump's the guy who plays by the rules so
I can see how this would upset him, right?
If you do something bad, you go to prison and be accountable for your actions.
That's what he's all about.
So I get why he's upset.
Yeah, insurrection drugs little bit, you know insurrection,
a little bit of weed loaded up with drugs,
it was a little little bit of weed and I think no, I just I have to jump in.
I'm sorry to interrupt you, but you wanna you wanna talk about
loaded up with drugs like mr amphetamine to lose weight guy.
Like really, you're gonna talk about loaded up on drugs loaded up on drugs.
That is election night thing.
Whatever.
People were definitely giving speeches pretty coked up.
Everyone was talking about that loaded up with drugs right up their noses.
Seriously.
I want to make a prediction though.
I my prediction is that with all of the golf happening in Saudi Arabia,
someone's gonna happen, Someone's gonna break some rule right and trump's gonna
feel differently about that situation than he does with Brittney Griner for sure.
He just really hates women and especially women of color.
Like if this was some conservative white male, like if this was a baseball player,
you know, someone with the MLB who's like a die hard trump fan again,
a white male who was imprisoned for getting, you know,
getting caught with literally 0.24 ounces of cannabis oil.
I would venture to say trump's commentary would be a little different.
Okay, I would venture to say that he would not refer to
that incident as an athlete who was loaded up on drugs.
Come on.
Now Griner who said that she had a doctor's note for the cannabis oil
explained in a Russian court when she pleaded guilty earlier this month that she
had forgotten that it was in her bag and brought it into the country inadvertently,
by the way, I don't even care if she did it on purpose.
That is not a reason to imprison someone.
And because of the political nature,
because of the relationship between Russia and the United States,
Russia seized on this opportunity to use her as a political prisoner.
That is really what's going on here.
It's not about drug possession, it's about using her for
Russia, using her for its own purposes, right?
And to be sure,
I mean Russia is trying to get one of its own released from the United States.
And we've talked about that guy.
He is referred to as the merchant of death because he's an arms
dealer to some of the worst people all across the globe.
A little similar, not a little very similar to what the United States does and
arming terrible regimes and terrible groups all across the world,
including the Saudis.
Of course, trump criticized reports that the United States is considering trading
notorious Russian arms dealer.
Viktor bout being held in an american prison to secure the release of
Greiner and former US Marine Paul Whelan who is serving a 16 year sentence
in Russia on what US officials call baseless espionage charges.
And by the way, his criticism was not grounded in any analysis of
the United States foreign policy or
concerns about the United States and its approach toward hostages.
It was just based on his assessment of Greiner as a person and
he thinks get a load of this.
She's very spoiled.
Let's watch.
Would you have made by the way, the offer for Brittney Griner and Viktor,
bout that Russia has put forward were supposed to get her out for a absolute
killer and one of the biggest arms dealers in the world killed many americans
killed many people and he's going to get a free card and we're gonna get her,
she knew you don't go in there loaded up with drugs and she admitted it.
I assumed she admitted it without too much force because it is what it is and
it certainly doesn't seem like a very good trade does it.
He's an absolute one of the worst in the world and
he's gonna be given his freedom because a potentially
spoiled person goes into Russia loaded up with drugs,
You inherited $413 million dollars from your daddy and
then squandered it And went bankrupt six different times.
Like spare me the commentary about other people being spoiled and by the way,
the notion of Greiner not being forced to admit guilt know the nature of the so
called justice system in Russia required her to admit guilt.
So an official admission of guilt was the best option for
Greiner in both the short and long term.
The nature of the Russian legal system meant there
was essentially zero chance she would be acquitted, pleading not guilty and
putting up a fierce defense may have actually led to retribution
from Russian authorities while she remains detained.
Plus an admission of guilt is really the only way for
a prisoner exchange to happen.
So to say like, I don't think she was for no,
she was she had to plead guilty in order to have a shot in getting
out of that country, Jessica mr foreign policy genius here.
It's amazing, really amazing stuff from donald trump, you know, he plays by
the rules and he's just a really great deal maker from what I've heard and
he gave himself two options in this situation.
It was either accept the terms that Russia has put forth or not.
Nothing happens at all.
Aren't you going to negotiate.
Isn't that what you would do if you were the leader of this country and
there was a political prisoner in another country that you want to get out that
people are very upset.
Is there that is there for very unjust reasons?
I don't know.
It seems like he didn't read the book The Art of the deal that was written for
him and maybe he should have and then maybe he would have had a better answer.
Maybe he would have had a plan, maybe a counter offer instead of this trade,
which he calls a bad trade.
Yeah, this this guy is the worst.
I can't believe we still have to hear about him.
God, he just loves authoritarian regimes.
Like he loves authoritarian leaders.
He can't get enough of it.
I mean he's just constantly like Fileting them and if if you happen to be a female
and in particular a woman of color who is a political prisoner in one of these,
you know, countries that's experiencing authoritarian rule.
No, you must be spoiled.
You must be spoiled.
But I remember his commentary about people like Otto Warmbier in North Korea
very different, Very different.
So just pay attention to how the talking points change depending on
the identity of the person who's being considered or talked about