Brittney Griner
After 10 months apart, the basketball player and her wife, Cherelle, embraced in a Texas airplane hangar.
The WNBA star spent about 12 hours of an 18-hour flight talking with others on the plane, said Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs.
Former White House national security official Fiona Hill said Trump "was not particularly interested in Paul’s case."
The former president highlighted Paul Whelan's incarceration while criticizing a White House deal freeing another inmate, Brittney Griner.
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The Fox News reporter, like former President Donald Trump, questioned why the U.S. freed arms dealer Viktor Bout for Griner in the exchange.
The WNBA star was released from Russia following a prisoner swap for notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
He labeled Griner as “America hating” apparently for exercising her First Amendment right to protest by joining calls for racial justice in the U.S.
"You're flying back home," someone tells the WNBA star in the footage.
The WNBA star "openly hates our Country," Donald Trump said in one of many Republican swipes at her participation in the 2020 racial justice protests.
WNBA star Brittney Griner has been freed by Russia in exchange for imprisoned Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.