While many people were happy to see Brittney Griner back in the country,
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there was also plenty of criticism from others who were angry that
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the country and President Joe Biden swapped Griner for a convicted Russian
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arms dealer while keeping former Marine Paul Whelan detained in Russia.
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Some of those people have now made their outrage public.
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Julie O'Donoghue of The Louisiana Illuminator reports that
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the Louisiana Republican Party has publicly denounced the
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prisoner deal that released Brittney Griner.
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"A voice vote to denounce the Griner conversation was approved by GOP
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committee members at their quarterly meeting in Lafayette.
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Once a reference to Griner being a "awake" gay woman was deleted from the
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statement, no members objected to it, O'Donoghue said in The Louisiana Illuminator.
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