Who would have thought that Viktor Bout, also known as the “Merchant of Death,” who was recently released from a federal prison in the US in exchange for the anti-American, black, female, lesbian, (checking all the boxes) basketball player, Brittney Griner, would aid Putin in his grotesque campaign to seize control of Ukraine?
The “Merchant of Death” intends to join Vladimir Putin’s campaign against Ukraine, according to Russian official media.
Viktor Bout was questioned on the RT Network on Saturday by Maria Butina, a current Russian parliamentarian, and former US prisoner.
She was sentenced to 15 months in a US jail after pleading guilty to conspiracy charges before being released in 2019. She subsequently made her way back to Russia, where in 2021, she was elected to the State Duma.
Butina served time in a US jail before being freed and sent back to Russia after being found guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent. She made fun of the Biden administration for his release in her interview with the Merchant of Death.
Just the News reports – When asked by the Russian state-sponsored outlet RT about the invasion of Ukraine, Bout said: “I never understood why we didn’t do this earlier.”
“I fully support the special military operation,” Bout said, using Russia’s nickname for the invasion of Ukraine. “If I could share the skills I have, I would readily volunteer.”
He accused the United States of “inhumane” treatment while he was in prison and said he “lost a lot of weight.”
When Bout was convicted in 2011 of conspiring to kill Americans and providing support to terrorists, including the Colombian FARC guerrilla army, then-Attorney General Eric Holder said he was “one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers” whose “arms trafficking activity and support of armed conflicts have been a source of concern around the globe for decades.”
Democrats are still standing behind the Biden administration’s foolish decision to release the woke basketball player for perhaps one of the most dangerous individuals in the world while handing out billions of our tax dollars to fight another interminable war in Ukraine.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a dingbat Democrat, supported the Biden administration’s selection of the woke basketball player over an ex-Marine while placing the responsibility on Donald Trump Jr., an “election denier.”
“His weapons may have been used to kill Americans, but he didn’t kill any Americans,” she told MSBNC.
“Let me say this. No one knows the story of the weapons dealer if you will. And as the facts would tell them. He was sentenced to 25 years. He served 11 to 16 years; I can’t remember the exact number. But in actuality, his weapons might have been used to kill Americans, but he has not killed Americans. I’m not saying he’s not a nasty, bad guy. But I will tell you that I believe that Americans should know that the sovereignty of their nation will always be behind them, and they will never be forgotten. Brittney Griner deserved this fight that we put forth, and so does Paul Whelan.”
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