House Speaker has defended the Biden administration for exchanging notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout for WNBA star in a deal brokered by Saudi Arabia that left Marine veteran Paul Whelan languishing in a Russian jail.In one of her last press conferences as Speaker of the House, Pelosi suggested that the White House had no other choice, as the administration faces criticism for swapping the WNBA star for the former KGB agent who tried to arm the Taliban and al Qaeda. Griner has been detained by Moscow since February on marijuana-linked drug charges, and was recently sentenced to nine years of grueling labor in a Russian penal colony.
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