Episode 4549: DEADLY SWAP: Merchant of Death for Basketball Star Brittney Griner

Viktor Bout, known as The Merchant of Death, for his 

notorious career as an arms dealer - has been freed 

from an American prison and allowed to return to 

Russia - thanks to the Biden White House trading 

him for WNBA player, Brittney Griner. Brittney 

endangers Americans in her own way, as you will 

hear, but Bout endangers the world, as he may well 

return to his old ways of selling weapons for fun and 

profit to terrorists (unless Putin appoints him to 

some job where his ruthlessness would come in 

handy.) 

In this podcast, we take a look at the colorful 

background of each of the contenders for this swap, 

so YOU can decide - by the end - whether it should 

have been Brittney Griner or Paul Whelan who 

was traded for Viktor Bout, or whether Biden 

shouldn’t have freed Bout under any circumstances. 

Though Brittney is a star basketball player, she’s 

also anti-American, calling for the National Anthem 

to no longer be played at any games! She was  

convicted for smuggling drugs into Russia, albeit her 

own, and she knew - or should have known - that  

would get her in trouble. 

Paul Whelan is a former Marine, who served for 

years - including in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He 

was convicted for alleged espionage in Moscow, 

but the circumstances are murky. 

Before you decide who should have been 

swapped, consider this: a former U.S. national 

security adviser says that the Biden administration's

deal with with Russia was “not a deal… not a swap.

This is a surrender.”