{"id":624262,"date":"2023-03-31T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/31\/wapos-tumulty-russia-detained-wsj-reporter-because-putin-thinks-griner-swap-really-worked-out-in-their-favor\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T02:25:00","slug":"wapos-tumulty-russia-detained-wsj-reporter-because-putin-thinks-griner-swap-really-worked-out-in-their-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/31\/wapos-tumulty-russia-detained-wsj-reporter-because-putin-thinks-griner-swap-really-worked-out-in-their-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo&#8217;s Tumulty: Russia Detained WSJ Reporter Because Putin Thinks Griner Swap &#8216;Really Worked out in Their Favor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s \u201cPBS NewsHour,\u201d\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0columnist and Deputy Editorial Page Editor Karen Tumulty said that Russia\u2019s \u201cappalling\u201d detention of\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>reporter Evan\u00a0Gershkovich earlier in the week took place because Vladimir Putin \u201cmade a calculation\u201d that Russia\u2019s detention of Brittney Griner \u201creally worked out in their favor. They released her, and they got a really bad guy back\u201d in the subsequent prisoner swap where the United States released arms dealer Viktor Bout in order to obtain Griner\u2019s release by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Tumulty stated that the detainment of Gershkovich \u201cspeaks to the way [Putin] is treating dissidents and critics in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cIt is appalling, because there is absolutely no evidence of espionage. But I do think that he made a calculation that the whole Brittney Griner \u2014 the basketball player \u2014 situation really worked out in their favor. They released her, and they got a really bad guy back. So, I just don\u2019t know how the Biden administration handles this, but I think all of us need to keep attention on this and to continue to demand, as loud as we can, that he be released, because there is no evidence of espionage.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Follow <\/em><em>Ian\u00a0Hanchett on Twitter\u00a0<a class href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2023\/03\/31\/wapos-tumulty-russia-detained-wsj-reporter-because-putin-thinks-griner-swap-really-worked-out-in-their-favor\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lloyd Noren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u2019s \u201cPBS NewsHour,\u201d\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0columnist and Deputy Editorial Page Editor Karen Tumulty said that Russia\u2019s \u201cappalling\u201d detention of\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0reporter Evan\u00a0Gershkovich earlier in the week took place because Vladimir Putin \u201cmade a calculation\u201d that Russia\u2019s detention of Brittney Griner \u201creally worked out in their favor. They released her, and they got a really bad guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,120968,109164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-financial","category-tumulty","category-wapos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}