<p>Leftist female basketball player Brittney Griner begged Democrat President Joe Biden Monday afternoon in a handwritten letter to help free her from Russia after she was taken into custody earlier this year for allegedly having drugs on her as she entered the country.</p>
<p>Griner&#8217;s arrest in Russia comes after Western nations have supplied weapons and training to Ukraine to fight back against Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion of the country. Russia has also been hit with hard sanctions.</p>
<p>The handwritten letter from Griner to Biden contained the following excerpts (the rest of the letter remained private):</p>
<ul>
<li>&#8221; &#8230; as I sit here in a Russian prison, alone with my thoughts and without the protection of my wife, family, friends, Olympic jersey, or any accomplishments, I&#8217;m terrified I might be here forever.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;On the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam War Veteran. It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;I realize you are dealing with so much, but please don&#8217;t forget about me and the other American Detainees. Please do all you can to bring us home. I voted for the first time in 2020 and I voted for you. I believe in you. I still have so much good to do with my freedom that you can help restore. I miss my wife! I miss my family! I miss my teammates! It kills me to know they are suffering so much right now. I am grateful for whatever you can do at this moment to get me home.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
<p>Griner previously <a href="https://www.outsports.com/2020/7/29/21346824/brittney-griner-national-anthem-breonna-taylor-police-brutality-protest-wnba">advocated</a> for not having the U.S. National Anthem played during WBNA games and refused to be on the court while it was played.</p>
<p>The U.S. State Department has claimed that Griner was &#8220;wrongfully detained&#8221; back in February when she was allegedly caught &#8220;carrying vape cartridges with hashish oil in her luggage at an airport near Moscow as she returned to Russia to resume playing for UMMC Yekaterinburg, a professional women’s basketball team,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/sports/basketball/brittney-griner-detained-wnba.html">reported</a>. &#8220;In other cases of wrongful detention, the United States had insisted that it would not link the fate of imprisoned individuals to larger policy issues.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brittney Griner&#8217;s wife, Cherelle Griner, told the Associated Press last month that Brittney had tried to call her 11 times over several hours on their anniversary using a number that U.S. officials gave to her that &#8220;would then patch the call through to Cherelle Griner in Phoenix,&#8221; the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-entertainment-sports-only-on-ap-brittney-griner-eab2338c18eab0fe600507eb6eb68093">reported</a>. &#8220;But each time, the call went unanswered because the desk at the embassy where the phone rang was apparently unstaffed.&#8221;</p>
<p>“I was distraught. I was hurt. I was done, fed up,” Cherelle Griner told the AP. “I’m pretty sure I texted BG’s agent and was like: ‘I don’t want to talk to anybody. It’s going to take me a minute to get my emotions together, and just tell everybody I’m unavailable right now.’ Because it just knocked me out. I wasn’t well, I’m still not well.”</p>
<p>The latest news about Griner comes after reports from late last week revealed that former President Donald Trump advocated hard for rapper A$AP Rocky when he was arrested in Sweden in 2019 and reportedly threatened a trade war over the matter.</p>
<p>&#8220;In an interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter [Swedish Minister of Justice] Morgan Johansson said the 45th president warned &#8216;trade restrictions&#8217; would be slapped on the country if Rocky — whose real name is Rakim Mayers — was not released,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/trump-threatened-trade-war-with-sweden-over-aap-rocky-arrest/">reported</a>. &#8220;Rocky was arrested in July 2019 and held in jail for a month after being involved in a fight prior to a scheduled appearance at a Stockholm music festival.&#8221;</p>

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