About ‘the man left behind’
What could Biden be thinking, trading a mere basketball player for the “Merchant of Death” while leaving a Marine behind? The Trumpy right is ramping up and up, getting all sanctimonious, about trading the freedom of (as the far right puts it) “a black leftist lesbian celebrity who hated this country” for that of an “ex-Marine.” So, election denier Daniel Greenfield of the most rightwing fake intelligentsia, what is the worst one of those invective modifiers you attach with such venom to Brittney Griner, a woman who helped win an Olympic Gold Medal for her country, the United States? “black”? “leftist”? “lesbian”? The far right is lionizing Paul Whelan, the “ex-Marine.” Um...he’s an ex-Marine because he well and truly earned a bad conduct discharge for being a scammer, a thief, and a lousy desk jockey supply clerk “Marine.” The military found him thusly, a military appellate court found the same, yet the ultra-right is selling him as some sort of patriotic freedom fighter held behind enemy lines and deserted by his traitorous government. Look it up.
