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   Russian state media are mocking the United States for   
   prioritizing WNBA player Brittney Griner over former U.S. Marine   
   Paul Whelan because of Griner's race and sexual orientation.   
      
   RT editor in chief Margarita Simonyan in a television appearance   
   Thursday said she was "very amused but not surprised" that the   
   Biden administration swapped Griner, rather than Whelan, for   
   notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, as Whelan has "three   
   problems."   
      
   "His first problem is that he is white. His second problem is he   
   is a man. His third problem: He is a heterosexual. This is not   
   something that can be forgiven today," Simonyan said.   
      
   Whelan, a former Marine convicted in 2020 on manufactured   
   espionage charges, has spent two years in a Russian penal   
   colony. "I was arrested for a crime that never occurred," he   
   told CNN Thursday. "I don't understand why I'm still sitting   
   here." During the television segment, Simonyan and the other   
   panelists repeatedly refer to Whelan as a spy and repeat the   
   trumped-up charges against him.   
      
   The segment suggests that Russia's propaganda machine plans to   
   weaponize the Biden administration's controversial decision to   
   swap Bout for Griner, who was arrested at a Moscow airport in   
   February for possessing less than a gram of marijuana.   
      
   "American voters were given a choice: a hero who suffered while   
   serving his fatherland … or a black lesbian, hooked on drugs,   
   who suffered for a vape with hashish," Simonyan said.   
      
   "And well-known, for the sake of PR!" adds another unidentified   
   panelist.   
      
   Bout, a former Soviet military translator known as the "Merchant   
   of Death," was convicted in 2011 of selling weapons to a   
   Colombian terrorist cell that planned to kill American soldiers.   
   Simonyan, whom the State Department calls "Vladimir Putin's   
   loyal propagandist," said Bout's release is "the first good   
   news" for Russia.   
      
   "The second good news is that [the United States] spits on its   
   heroes to the extent that it considers it significantly more   
   important to free a rightfully charged, well-known athlete," the   
   Russian propaganda chief said, adding that "this says a lot   
   about the state of this society, of these intelligence agencies,   
   and everything related to geopolitical confrontation."   
      
   Griner since her arrest has become a cause célèbre, which likely   
   informed the Biden administration's decision to prioritize her   
   release over other Americans imprisoned abroad. President Joe   
   Biden has met with Griner's wife Cherelle several times,   
   inviting her to the Oval Office on Thursday to personally share   
   the news of Griner's release.   
      
   According to CNN, "senior U.S. government officials" visited   
   Whelan's sister to "share and talk through the news" that her   
   brother was not being released.   
      
   Published under: Biden Administration, Joe Biden, Media,   
   Propaganda, Russia, State Department, Vladimir Putin, woke   
      
      
      
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