Update: Whelen and WSJ reporter Gershikovich released by Russia

Great news for those guys and their families. I wonder what heinous characters got set loose by the US. Arms dealers? Spies?

 

Yes. I wouldn't be surprised if Putin also sends the golden showers video to CNN or Pornhub. "No need to hold on to it now," he'll say. "Trump apparently doesn't have a single U.S. classified document left to sell to us. And he certainly won't be getting any more."

 

One has to wonder if Putin is starting to give up on Trump. Hmm...

 

Because he's afraid of the laughing hyena?

 

"Laughing hyena" in contrast to the cognitively diminished unhinged grifter? While Putin would undoubtedly prefer the easily manipulated latter maybe he is starting to face reality. Not saying that Harris will defeat Trump in November but the odds are much better than they were of Biden's reelection.

 

Hitman.
Vadim Krasikov, a Russian freed from jail in Germany on Friday in a prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, was convicted of the murder in 2019 of a former Chechen militant as he walked in broad daylight in a park in central Berlin. The three shots fired from a Glock pistol on a sunny August day were deemed murder "with especially serious aggravating circumstances" - the most serious conviction possible under German law.

 

wonder what we had to give Germany to get him released. US was fresh out of Russians. Guess we need at arrest a few dozen for future trade bait

 

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Trading out some total scumbags to get our peeps back versus " why aren't trying harder to get our people out?".

 

I heard Chanel West Coast (formerly of the show Ridiculousness) say that her father is Russian. Lock him up!

 

Once again, Biden succeeds where Trump failed.

 

Biden exchanged a hitman for the hostages. Trump would have exchanged the country of Ukraine.

 

Paul Whelan, @ThePlayer's "American Hero" was convicted of of several larceny related charges by a courts martial and given a bad conduct discharge.

 

I think it’s hers to lose now.

 

Hostages are free

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/evan-gershkovich-free-cde745b3


Gershkovich and other Americans left Russian aircraft at roughly 11:20 a.m. ET at an airport in Turkey’s capital, Ankara. Gershkovich was then transported to an aircraft lounge on a Turkish bus. Russia had kept the 32-year-old behind bars for more than a year on a false allegation of espionage. It sentenced him in a hurried and secret three-day trial to 16 years in a high-security penal colony.

Moscow also released former Marine Paul Whelan, journalist Alsu Kurmasheva and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British-Russian dissident and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, sentenced to 25 years in prison on treason-related charges. Russia also released a number of political dissidents.

The sweeping deal involved 24 prisoners and at least six countries, and came together after months of negotiations at the highest levels of governments in the U.S., Russia and Germany, whose prisoner, Russian hit man Vadim Krasikov, emerged as the linchpin to the arrangement.

 

Can CNN be more obvious they are just a propaganda machine for the Dems? HAHAHA

Mic drop moment... so much journalism.

Hey hey, when were the hostages captured??
3 of the 4 were during Biden/Harris...

@swampbabe must hate it when there are receipts haha.