Viktor Bout
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</font></div><div style=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">MATT WALSH (HOST): </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">It is quite -- quite, quite sad that the guy, the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> international arms smuggler </span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">who we traded back to Russia appears, based on what he said, to love America more than the woman we traded for. </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">OK, those are sentiments that you're never going to hear from Brittney Griner. She wouldn't even be able to express it. Both because she lacks the articulation required but also because she just doesn't see America -- she hates America. She really does.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When you refuse to -- when you say, I'm not going to go onto the court when the national anthem is played, that is -- I mean that can only be driven by pure scorn and resentment for your home country. You would never hear that from Brittney Griner. <b>Instead we hear it from the Russian guy, the guy that we're trading back to Russia. So, we're sending away the person who loves America more and bringing in the person who hates America. </b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, now, look, what you're hearing there -- there's a reason why they did the interview in English, right? Is this, perhaps, a ploy on the part of Russia? Is that, you know, a part of this? That's probably the case. But even so, it's still quite sad that the woman we're bringing in would never say anything like that. And everything he said is true. Whether he really believes any of that, I have no idea. But what he said is true.</font></span></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who was fired by President Donald Trump over the weekend, was so despised by Vladimir Putin’s Russia that he was banned from entering the country in 2013.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to <a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/world/europe/russia-bars-18-americans-in-tit-for-tat-on-rights.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><em>The New York Times</em></a>, Russia banned Bharara and 17 other Americans in retaliation for U.S. sanctions over human rights violations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Russian government reportedly targeted Bharara because of his prosecution of Viktor Bout, a convicted arms dealer.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bharara, who is known for investigating officials regardless of political party, also prosecuted three Russian nationals for acting as spies in 2015.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The arrest of Evgeny Buryakov and the charges against him and his co-defendants make clear that – more than two decades after the presumptive end of the Cold War – Russian spies continue to seek to operate in our midst under cover of secrecy,” Bharara <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/russian-spies-nyc-charged-espionage-article-1.2092419" style="text-decoration: none;">said at the time</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bharara was fired by the Trump administration on Saturday after he refused to comply with a request to resign. It was not immediately clear if Bharara was involved in any current investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div>