Joe Biden made a bad, deadly deal to free Brittney Griner

WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner broke a minor law in Russia. She did not deserve to rot in a penal colony for such a trivial offense.

That said, it is an embarrassment to the United States and a testimony to President Joe Biden's incompetence that he just released a major international weapons smuggler — "the Merchant of Death" is the man's nickname — in exchange for Griner's freedom. But Viktor Bout was not just an arms smuggler, he was serving a federal prison sentence for conspiring to kill Americans. This was a deal that no...