To the editor:
Who is this “Joe Pietrangelo” to whom Jay Burnham of Massachusetts refers in his Dec. 20 letter, “Pietrangelo is real bigot, not Olympic champion Brittney Griner”?
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(3) comments
Jimbo is filing a formal complaint. Maybe he should hand that ability to be bent out of shape over to Otto Warmbier’s parents who lost their child to a dictator, who was placed into custody and tortured until he was brain dead. But, do go on with your whiny, unAmerican, unpatriotic pitiful self, sir.
Jim-not-Joe is filing a complaint? Claiming what? To whom? Apparently he does this alot...and fails alot.
What part of the fact that there was no way that Putinvwas going to let Whalen out don’t you get? It was Griner or no one! Putin is holding Whalen in hopes for a trade for bigger fish…a murderer who isn’t even in US hands. And there is no way Germany is going to make any trade for such a bad guy! And really, does Whalen deserve a trade anyway? He had $80,000 US dollars with him and a flash drive that had the names of all the Russian border guards…..sounds suspicious to me!
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