William Lindsey :toad:
“'Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else,' Trump claimed on his social media account as recently as May. Trump went on to allege that Gershkovich 'will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office.'
Nope."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Biden #Russia #Putin #prisoners #Trump
/1
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/putin-just-voted-early
William Lindsey :toad:
"It took a master diplomat and staunch allies to free Russian hostages."
~ Greg Dworkin
William Lindsey :toad:
"If you want to know why Donald Trump's immediate reaction to American prisoners coming home to US soil is to have a complete meltdown and attack the president who got it done, here's why."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
This part of the video begins at the 1.21 mark.
William Lindsey :toad:
"Jonah Goldberg slammed Donald Trump’s VP nominee JD Vance’s 'very stupid' opinion on Vladimir Putin’s release of Evan Gershkovich.
Following the release of the Wall Street Journal reporter, Vance told CNN reporter Steve Contorno that Putin only released Gershkovich along with 15 other prisoners because he was preparing for Trump to be elected."
~ Phillip Nieto
William Lindsey :toad:
"After Joe Biden finished his press conference announcing the deal, a reporter shouted a question about Trump's boast that 'that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange.'
Biden stopped, returned to the lectern, and asked, 'Why didn’t he do it when he was president?'”
William Lindsey :toad:
President and Mrs. Biden greet the prisoners released in the prisoner swap.
William Lindsey :toad:
"Today, Joe Biden’s gift of renewed international alliances resulted in the freedom of three American citizens wrongfully detained by Russia. The exchange would not have happened except for the relationship of trust and goodwill between President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Biden #Putin #prisoners #Trump #diplomacy #leadership
/8
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-gifts-to-america
William Lindsey :toad:
"Putin’s decision to go ahead with the swap was a blow to Trump.
That did not, however, stop Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance from claiming that Trump deserved credit for the swap despite Trump’s insistence that Gershkovich would be released only after Trump was reelected. For his part, Trump didn’t express any joy at all in the deal, simply claiming that Biden got fleeced and saying '[o]ur "negotiators" are always an embarrassment to us!'"
William Lindsey :toad:
"This deal was in the works during the weeks when the press was hounding the president and suggesting he was not fit to do the work of the office."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
You'd like to think, wouldn't you, that the arrogant, callow young journalists circling Biden like sharks smelling blood during those days would now feel some shame at how they behaved? Not a chance of it. They can't spell that word, evidently.
William Lindsey :toad:
"In fact, a senior administration official briefing reporters this morning pointed out that on July 20, an hour before he announced to the nation that he would not accept the Democratic nomination for president, Biden 'was on the phone with his Slovenian counterpart, urging them to make the final arrangements and to get this deal over the finish line.'
This is the largest prisoner swap since the collapse of the Soviet Union."
William Lindsey :toad:
"The return of Americans illegally detained in Russia, including Britney Griner in 2022, should be seen as an absolute win by the Biden administration. Trump’s need for Putin’s personal approval and willingness to let Otto Warmbier perish in North Korean prison while buddying up to Kim Jong Un should be a hint as to how his administration would have handled this situation."
~ Alexander Vindman
#Biden #Russia #Putin #prisoners #Trump
/3
https://alexandervindman.substack.com/p/the-biden-harris-administration-shows
William Lindsey :toad:
"Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, tried to claim today that the prisoner swap took place only because of Trump’s strength. When questioned about Vance’s statement at a White House briefing this afternoon, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan answered, 'I don’t follow,' one of the great put downs of all time."
As Truscott notes, when Gershkovich and Whelan deplane in DC, President Biden and V-P Harris will be there to greet them, not Trump.
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