The former vice president said he wouldn’t have made the deal to bring the WNBA player home.

Republican officials attacked President Joe Biden for negotiating Brittney Griner’s release from Russia.

Griner was released in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, but another American prisoner in Russia, Paul Whelan, was not. Still, ‘The Biden Administration made the right decision to bring Ms. Griner home,’ Whelan’s brother said.

The United States has taken unprecedented steps to bring the basketball star and a fellow American captured in Russia, Paul Whelan, home — but it hasn’t proved fruitful yet.